False Claims Act: 2020 Year-in-Review
By EsqSocial Corporation 04/02/21
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on January 14, 2021 that it had recovered $2.2 billion in False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments in its 2020 fiscal year. While that figure is down considerably from prior years, the decline may be explained in part by the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The government’s total recovery since the 1986 amendments has now reached a staggering $64 billion. The federal courts remained active in developing the law on a number of...
By: WilmerHale