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South Carolina-Based Healthcare System Resolves False Claims Act Case with Feds After $237 Million Verdict

The whistleblower provisions of the federal False Claims Act, codified at U.S.C.A. § 3729-3733, are based on the premise that those on the inside often have the best information about illegal acts and fraud. The Act has been around for a long time, having been enacted during the Civil War to combat fraud…

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$237,454,195 Award in South Carolina Whistleblower’s Suit Brought under the Federal False Claims Act Affirmed on Appeal – Drakeford v. Tuomey

The United States government is a huge entity that cannot possibly be aware of every instance of fraud of which it is a victim. To increase the odds in the government’s favor, Congress passed the False Claims Act, which contains a qui tam provision through which a whistleblower may initiate a lawsuit…

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