Federal contractors sent to Puerto Rico to improve hurricane relief efforts have filed whistleblower retaliation complaints alleging they were laid off after complaining about dysfunction and fraud within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which they say thwarted disaster response operations and wasted taxpayer funds. FEMA hired the Herndon, Virginia-based ATCS, a civil engineering firm, to […]
U.S. District Judge Virginia Hopkins entered judgment in the amount of $14,708,630.06 on behalf of whistleblower Barry Taul, who uncovered and reported an illegal kickback and false billing scheme that defrauded the Alabama Organ Center and taxpayers. A jury found in favor of Mr. Taul in the whistleblower case on Feb. 5. After discovering the […]
A jury in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, awarded plaintiff Leon Battle $1.9 million for retaliatory discharge and for an amputation injury he suffered on the job – he was fired for hiring a lawyer. Mr. Battle was represented by Beasley Allen lawyers Larry Golston, Leon Hampton, Jr., Kendall Dunson and Warner Hornsby, along with Montgomery lawyer Tamika […]
The whistleblower lawsuit alleged that Dental Dreams improperly billed the Massachusetts Medicaid program, MassHealth, for “unnecessary and unjustifiable dental procedures.”
So what makes some whistleblowers choose to put their personal and professional lives in jeopardy while others who witness wrongdoing stay silent?
Lawyers battle to keep whistleblower case alive, ultimately reaching settlement of allegations that private contractor U.S. Investigation Services (USIS) violated the False Claims Act.
Anthem Health Insurance Inc. experienced a monumental data breach in February originally affecting approximately 80 million Anthem customers; however, an update from Anthem reveals that at least 8.8 to 18.8 million non-customers with Blue Cross Blue Shield may have also been affected. The total number of current and past Anthem customers included in the data breach has been […]
More than 80 million personal Anthem customer records are now at the mercy of unidentified hackers due to a data breach reported by Anthem Inc. Anthem is the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S. Anthem representatives say they believe the cyberattack successfully compromised customer names, birthdays, medical IDs, social security numbers, street addresses, e-mail […]
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of consumers whose credit and debit card information was compromised at Target stores in a major security breach that began on or around Nov. 27, just before “Black Friday,” and continued through at least Dec. 15.
The Dodd-Frank Act was passed in July 2010, establishing the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower in 2011. The program was designed by Congress to provide monetary incentives for anyone with knowledge of fraudulent activities to step forward and report possible violations of federal securities law. The program entitles eligible whistleblowers to an […]
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a second class action lawsuit related to the major security breach at Target stores. The latest class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of Alabama State Employees Credit Union on behalf of the Plaintiffs against defendant Target Corporation.
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