In a judicial opinion certain to rock the provider world, Judge Edgardo Ramos of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a New York Health System’s (“Health System”) motion to dismiss the U.S.’s and New York State’s complaints in intervention under the federal False Claims... Continue Reading →Tags: False Claims Act, FCA, FERA, HealthFirst, Ramos, reverse false claim
Introduction Three cases are addressed in a review of the False Claims Act decisions of the past month. The first, US v. Anchor Mortage Corp., is a significant Seventh Circuit case addressing the proper treble damages calculation under the statute. The second, US ex rel. Carter v. Halliburton, considers the application... Continue Reading →Tags: Anchor Mortgage, Carter, False Claims Act, fraud, Halliburton, KBR, Keltner, overpayment, particularity, reverse false claim
January, 2012, saw two different examples of the Government using the False Claims Act to bring a gun to a knife fight. In the first case the gun won the day. In the second, it backfired. Both cases were brought in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and in both... Continue Reading →Tags: affirmative defense, Chapman, Court of Claims, estoppel, False Claims Act, FCA, Honeywell, Najjar, Railway Logistics, reverse false claim