Why is government fraud such an important practice area to our team? The cases aren’t simple, they can be time consuming (especially since we try to relieve pressure from our clients), and they take longer to reach resolution that a typical accident case. Still, we do it for the same…
As a leading purchaser of both goods and services, the United States government is a powerful commercial entity. The government has chosen to help minority- and women-owned businesses by giving them certain contracting preferences. Like the health care and defense contracting arenas, dishonest individuals and companies, including those in the…
With respect to fraudulent actions against the government, much attention has been rightly focused on the schemes that seek to fleece Medicare and other healthcare programs. But San Francisco qui tam lawsuit attorney Gregory J. Brod would point out that there are other government agencies that are targets for fraud,…
Health care fraud is one of our firm’s specialties, however, our firm also works with whistleblowers to fight other types of fraud on our federal and state governments. These cases involve theft from government coffers, thefts that ultimately steal from the American taxpayers generally and from the intended program beneficiaries.…
In this blog, we have often discussed the use of the False Claims Act (the “Act” or the “FCA”) as a weapon against those who commit health care fraud. While health care fraud is an important target of FCA suits, the Act’s reach goes beyond the health care arena. Generally,…