50 results for 'nos:"Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property"'.
J. Gordon denies the apartment owner's motion to dismiss a tenant's whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act against the owners of her apartment community, alleging it demanded illegal side payments while receiving rent subsidies from Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority under a housing assistance contract. The tenant has plausibly alleged the owner made a claim for payment from the housing authority under the implied false certification theory, the owner's conduct was material to the authority's decision to issue payments and the owner had the requisite motivation.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Gordon , Filed On: August 28, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv1123, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Landlord Tenant, False Claims, Whistleblowers
J. Brown adopts the magistrate's recommendations, dismissing a false claims suit against 12 gas storage companies. The investigator failed to allege that the companies had committed or had knowledge of any fraudulent activities, and his own failure to ask other federal agencies if they had the older survey data did not lighten the burden of proof he was required to present.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Brown, Filed On: August 26, 2024, Case #: 3:20cv172, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Civil Procedure, Energy, False Claims
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J. D’Agostino preserves for the most part a False Claims Act and whistleblower retaliation complaint against a gynecological practice based in Syracuse, finding it sufficiently alleges it submitted false insurance claims that sought reimbursement for medical services that were never performed, and further retaliated against the litigant — one of its division directors — for her reports regarding the illegal acts and for her refusal to participate in what she describes as fraudulent and dangerous patient care.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: D’Agostino, Filed On: July 31, 2024, Case #: 5:20cv630, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Health Care, False Claims
J. Rosenthal dismisses part of a false claims lawsuit brought on behalf of the United States by a nonprofit that operates federally funded Head Start programs. The nonprofit is suing three vendors and one of its former senior directors, claiming the director wrongly directed federal grants to the three vendors, with whom she allegedly had undisclosed prior relationships. The court dismisses the nonprofit’s False Claims Act claims against the director and one of the vendors based on the False Claims Act’s public disclosure exception. The vendor’s prior relationship with the director was that he served on her dissertation committee, and that information was publicly available on the University of Houston’s website.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Rosenthal, Filed On: July 25, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv1124, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, False Claims, Contract
J. Payne grants the concerned citizen's renewed motion for relief from the order of dismissal. A concerned citizen filed a complaint against an airplane parts manufacturer, claiming the manufacturer and the government are in cahoots and creating fake contract proposals for the manufacturer's benefits, which constitute false claims. The government intervened on the citizen's behalf but then filed a motion to dismiss, claiming that after investigation, his claims lacked merit. The government gave no substantively supported grounds for dismissal or for claiming an unwarranted burden. Rather, the government relied on undocumented conclusory assertions.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Payne, Filed On: June 13, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv371, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, False Claims, Aviation
J. Cabell finds health care providers, who are accused of misleading a relator into ordering expensive, medically unnecessary PCR urine tract infection testing, have waived their right to withhold certain documents based on attorney-client privilege. They previously produced these documents for the U.S. government before retrieving them once they found out the government shared them with the relator. The providers were too late to invoke the claw-back provision.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Cabell, Filed On: June 7, 2024, Case #: 1:18cv12558, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Health Care, Discovery, False Claims
J. Bumb allows Allstate Insurance to continue claims contending a lab company submitted duplicative and medically unnecessary urine drug testing claims to Medicare and Medicaid. The insurer, as relator, sufficiently alleged the lab company encouraged physicians to order screening tests as a matter of course and without regard to need.
Court: USDC New Jersey, Judge: Bumb , Filed On: May 30, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv6303, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Medicaid, Medicare, False Claims
J. Tunheim dismisses the animal-rights organization's suit alleging that the pork producer improperly applied for Covid-19 relief while engaging in inhumane and unsanitary practices. The pork producer's allegedly false statement that it was not engaged in illegal activity was not material to its application for Paycheck Protection Plan loans, so it is not liable under the False Claims Act. Noncompliance with anti-garbage feeding laws, notwithstanding the laws' connection to the prevention of zoonotic disease, is not sufficiently tied to the purpose of the PPP. There is also good reason to believe that the government regularly paid out PPP funds to other entities despite knowing that they were engaged in illegal activity.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Tunheim, Filed On: May 28, 2024, Case #: 0:21cv2061, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, False Claims, Covid-19
J. Savage determines a group of rehabilitation centers’ second of four qui tam action is not barred by the first-to-file rule since it names unrelated operators of skilled nursing facilities not named in the first action alleging a separate fraudulent scheme. The relators allege the facilities billed Medicare and Medicaid for therapies that patients did not need or were not provided. The realtors sufficiently stated a plausible cause for conspiracy to present false claims. This action identifies three new unrelated rehabilitation centers in another state that possibly has not been identified by the government.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Savage, Filed On: May 21, 2024, Case #: 1:17cv722, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Medicaid, Tort, Medicare
J. Schreier grants a motion for leave to proceed after an individual filed a pro se lawsuit under the False Claims Act. The action is sealed because the individual alleges it is a qui tam action, but the court wrote that it does not appear that the individual has served the government with a copy of his complaint and a written disclosure of substantially all material evidence. The matter stems from a dispute over car repairs at a shop in Worthington, Minnesota.
Court: USDC South Dakota, Judge: Schreier, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv5071, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Vehicle
J. Schreier grants a motion for leave to proceed after an individual filed a pro se lawsuit under the False Claims Act. The action is sealed because the individual alleges it is a qui tam action, but the court wrote that it does not appear that the individual has served the government with a copy of his complaint and a written disclosure of substantially all material evidence. The matter stems from a dispute over car repairs at a shop in Worthington, Minnesota.
Court: USDC South Dakota, Judge: Schreier, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv4189, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Vehicle
J. Knapp grants the postal service contractor's motion to dismiss, ruling the employee's claim he "reported concerns" about underpayment of wages to supervisors are too vague and conclusory to meet pleading requirements under the False Claims Act, especially considering there is no information about the specific wage payment violations or how the contractor responded to the reports.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Knapp, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv1900, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Employment, Evidence, False Claims
J. Kleeh grants the oil and gas service providers' motions to dismiss the whistleblowers' qui tam suit claiming the six companies involved are one interconnected firm with overlapping leadership and organization that share resources, personnel and finances, which should have disqualified them from receiving $13,849,170 in Paycheck Protection Program loans. The whistleblowers failed to provide original source information to the U.S. Department of Justice for consideration of a suit under the False Claims Act, as well as any details of fraud in their amended complaint.
Court: USDC Northern District of West Virginia, Judge: Kleeh , Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Government, False Claims
J. Casper allows four science companies’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a man who claims they violated the False Claims Act by allegedly causing Moderna and Pfizer to submit false claims to the federal government. The man fails to state who, specifically, at these companies falsely certified good manufacturing standards compliance of their vaccines to the government.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Casper, Filed On: March 15, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv10866, NOS: Qui Tam (31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)) - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Health Care, False Claims, Covid-19