Pleading a False Claims Act case can beĀ a tricky exercise, and inĀ defending an FCA case, it is important to know just what the rules are for a whistleblower, and how they can fail to meet them. One of the most common mistakes made by whistleblowers is failing to “plead fraud... Continue Reading →Tags: Camillo, False Claims Act, FCA, Fowler, fraud with particularity, Gross, Nayak, Rolls-Royce, Rule 9(b), whistleblower
2005 WL 1926559 (S.D.Ill. Case No. 03 CV 0024 DRH, Aug. 8, 2005) Defendant Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital, Inc., moved to dismiss the whistleblower’s amended complaint, as it was not an original defendant. As a result, the government had never reviewed the claims against it and made an intervention decision,... Continue Reading →Tags: Ancilla, Andy Martone, Camillo, David Honig, False Claims Act, FCA, fraud with parciularity, Hall, Heath & Lyman, Killian, Martone Hesse, Render, Rule 9(b)
In an interesting case, a whistleblower stipulated to the Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment, in effect agreeing that the Court could dismiss his False Claims Act case against a hospital as unsupported by the facts. In U.S. ex rel. Camillo v. Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital, a case set in East... Continue Reading →Tags: Camillo, dismissed, East St. Louis, False Claims Act, qui tam, summary judgment, whistleblower