By Cogan Schneier | July 27, 2017
The court allowed allegations that DePuy Orthopaedics sold defective hip implants to doctors who sought government reimbursement for them.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 27, 2017
After a nearly three-month dry period for whistleblower bounties, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week awarded a pair of tipsters who helped the agency bring successful enforcement actions. To approve the latest award, the SEC made an exception that it has used at least once before to reward a tipster who began working with the agency before the 2010 passage of Dodd-Frank reform law.
By Sue Reisinger and C. Ryan Barber | July 25, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday awarded nearly $2.5 million to a government worker who helped regulators launch an investigation and eventually crack down on a company's misconduct, the first such whistleblower bounty issued to an employee of a government agency.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017
The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to reinstate a former branch manager fired for blowing the whistle on three subordinates who were opening new accounts for customers without their knowledge—the conduct at issue in the bank's $185 million settlement last year with federal regulators and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
By C. Ryan Barber | June 28, 2017
The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower office defended broad anti-retaliation protections for corporate insiders on Wednesday, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider when employees are entitled to those safeguards under the Dodd-Frank Act.
By C. Ryan Barber | June 26, 2017
Federal appellate courts have struggled recently over exactly when a corporate insider becomes a whistleblower who's entitled to the Dodd-Frank Act's protections against retaliation. The U.S. Supreme Court's now jumping into the fray to resolve tension among the lower courts. The justices agreed Monday to take up the case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
By Cogan Schneier | June 12, 2017
Other nominees include offices in Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio and Utah.
By Sue Reisinger | June 12, 2017
Plaintiffs firms and corporate defense firms have been adding whistleblower law experts as the number of suits proliferates along with the number of state and federal laws that have been enacted allowing qui tam claims.
By C. Ryan Barber | June 2, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court spurns the "diva of the distressed" in a dispute over the SEC's administrative law judges. Google's sparring over wage data continues. And a whistleblower in Caterpillar's tax case could stand to be very rich. This is a roundup of regulatory and compliance news from the week, featuring ALM coverage and reports from other publications.
By Scott Flaherty | May 23, 2017
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