Disregard Compliance at Your Peril: Compliance Officer Paid As Whistleblower

A medical device manufacturer learned what might seem an obvious lesson when it paid $18 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by its former Compliance Officer: don’t ignore your compliance officer. The federal government received $15.21 million; state governments received $2.79 million; and the whistleblower received $2.65 million of the federal share....
By: Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

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