If you believe your employer has been defrauding the federal government, your first instinct may be to organize your thoughts before contacting an attorney. Increasingly, potential clients are turning to AI tools like ChatGPT to help draft case summaries or intake narratives before reaching out to a law firm. While the impulse to arrive prepared is understandable, using AI to build your case summary carries serious legal risks that could compromise your claim before it even begins. AI Cannot … [Read more...]
Hospice Fraud: When Patients Who Aren’t Dying Are Billed as Terminal
In recent years, Gentiva Health Services, the successor to Kindred at Home, one of the country's largest hospice providers, agreed to pay $19.428 million to resolve allegations spanning multiple states and a decade of alleged misconduct. The settlement resolved allegations that, from 2010 until February 2020, Kindred and related entities knowingly submitted false claims for hospice services provided to patients who were not terminally ill and then concealed or avoided their obligation to repay … [Read more...]
When the Management Company Is the Problem: MSO Fraud and False Claims Act Liability
On September 8, 2025, the Department of Justice announced that the former chief executive officer of True Health Diagnostics, LLC, a clinical laboratory based in Frisco, Texas, agreed to pay $4.25 million to resolve allegations that he orchestrated a kickback scheme funneled through management services organizations. Two physicians and seven marketers agreed to pay an additional $1.82 million. With those settlements, the DOJ's total civil False Claims Act recoveries for kickbacks to healthcare … [Read more...]
Keller Grover Files Federal Class Action Over Kars4Kids Advertising
Link to Complaint. A California court has issued a major ruling against Kars4Kids, finding that the charity violated California’s False Advertising Law and Unfair Competition Law through misleading advertising connected to its long running “1-877-Kars4Kids” vehicle donation campaign. The ruling was issued on May 8, 2026, after a full trial on the merits in Puterbaugh v. Oorah, Inc. and Kars4Kids by Judge Apkarian of the Superior Court of California, County of Orange. The Court found that … [Read more...]
Tariff Fraud Is Rampant. The False Claims Act Is One of the Government’s Best Tools to Fight It.
The average value of goods packed into a 20-foot shipping container from China fell nearly 40 percent between January 2025 and February 2026. Over the same period, container values from the rest of the world barely moved. Researchers and trade experts say the numbers point to one explanation: companies have been systematically falsifying the declared value of Chinese imports to reduce the tariffs they owe to the United States government. Ryan Petersen, the chief executive of supply chain firm … [Read more...]
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