Hospice Insights Podcast - Where’s the Line: When Does Poor Quality Create False Claims Liability
False Claims Act Insights - An FCA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry
HHS Policy Changes, Supreme Court Rulings, and the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group
New DOJ Memo Warns Employers: Rethink DEI Programs Now - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Compliance into the Weeds: Two Cyber Security Cases for the Compliance Professional
False Claims Act Insights - Beyond Adversarialism: How to Steer FCA Investigations
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
Great Women in Compliance: LATAM Compliance Update with Alejandra Montenegro Almonte
AI and the False Claims Act
False Claims Act Insights - The Mathematics of Nuclear FCA Verdicts
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Compliance Influencer with Bettina Palazzo
Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: The False Claims Act
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
False Claims Act Insights - How Payment Suspensions Can Impact FCA Litigation
Whistleblower Watch is a comprehensive source for all False Claims Act (FCA) news and information. Every quarter, Cozen O’Connor will provide in-house counsel and compliance professionals with a summary of the most notable...more
The First Circuit joins the Sixth and Eighth Circuits in adopting a more exacting causation standard for False Claims Act liability premised on Anti-Kickback Statute violations. In a victory for False Claims Act (FCA)...more
The Supreme Court’s decision in Wisconsin Bell v. United States ex rel. Todd Heath clarifies what constitutes a “claim” under the federal False Claims Act (FCA). ...more
On February 18, 2025, the First Circuit joined the Sixth and Eighth Circuits in adopting a “but for” causation standard in cases involving per se liability under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the False Claims...more
This is the fifth in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
On September 27, 2023, the Chief Judge of the District of Massachusetts decided that the standard in False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases premised on alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) is but-for causation....more
Summer 2023- Whistleblower Watch is a comprehensive source for all False Claims Act (FCA) news and information. Every quarter, Cozen O’Connor will provide in-house counsel and compliance professionals with a summary of the...more
Notable Headlines - False Claims Act - It used to be rare for the Supreme Court to hear False Claims Act cases. It’s a lot less rare now. On April 18, the Supreme Court heard argument concerning two Seventh Circuit...more
On February 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its fiscal year (FY) 2022 False Claims Act (FCA) statistics. Utilizing DOJ’s FY 2022 Data Table and comparing back to our FY 2021 coverage, MoFo’s FCA team...more
Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries. DOJ Civil Cyber-fraud Initiative Obtains First Settlement - The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, March 8th, that Comprehensive...more
DOJ Recovers Over $5.6 Billion From Fraud and False Claims Act Matters in FY 2021: 6 Key Takeaways - On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had recovered more than $5.6 billion in Fiscal...more
THE ONLY EVENT WHERE YOU'LL HEAR FROM Government, In-house Counsel, The Judiciary, the Defense & Relator’s Bar - ACI’s 8th Annual Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement will address the underlying...more
The COVID-19 pandemic and the serious supply chain vulnerabilities it exposed have led to a seismic shift in U.S. policy and regulation, from stepped-up measures to protect U.S. technology, intellectual property and data from...more
With more than 34.8 billion recovered by the government since 2010 under the federal False Claims Act, it has never been more crucial for private practitioners and corporate in-house counsel to keep abreast of the changes and...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division announced three new investigations and several developments in its other investigations, including new investigations in the commercial flooring industry, online auctions for...more
Federal False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries in fiscal year 2018 amounted to $2.88 billion, down by roughly $600 million from the prior year and dropping below $3 billion for the first time in eight years. Healthcare cases,...more
The scope of our country’s opioid epidemic is devastating. From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose. Two-thirds of these deaths involved an opioid. On average, 195 Americans dies every day...more
One year after the Supreme Court changed the False Claims Act landscape, FCA litigants continue to grapple with the “demanding” materiality standard set forth in Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel Escobar. Now...more
A recent circuit court decision will be a welcome development for False Claims Act defendants because it reinforces a significant pleading hurdle for claims to proceed, with the court citing lack of government intervention as...more
The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Middle District of Florida (USAO-MDFL) prosecuted several civil health care fraud matters in 2016 and issued related press releases. A review of the USAO-MDFL’s criminal and...more
On Thursday of last week, the Supreme Court for the first time addressed the “implied certification” theory of liability under the False Claims Act. The Court ruled unanimously that the theory is valid in certain...more
In This Issue: - TTIP’s Impact on U.S. and EU Trade Relations - Proposed Innovation Box Legislation - Justice Department Recovers Nearly $6 Billion From False Claims Act Cases in 2014 - Rules...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained a record $5.69 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2014. This marks the first time the DOJ...more