The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the federal agency that runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Within the Department, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is charged with preventing fraud on the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and identifying and holding accountable those that have abused their role as healthcare providers. OIG conducts audits, investigations, and evaluations of Medicare and Medicaid, and works closely with attorneys within HHS and at the U.S. … [Read more...]
New California Law Aims to Close the Wage Gap for Women
In 1949, California enacted a law to ensure that women were paid the same as men for the same work. Sixty-six years later, the California Legislature amended that law in a way that might actually close the persistent wage gap women workers face. The Fair Pay Act of 2015, signed by California Governor Jerry Brown in early October, mandates that California employers pay men and women the same wages for “substantially similar work” as measured by skill, effort, level of responsibility, and working … [Read more...]
The Gross Inequities in Arbitration Clauses That Control Virtually All Our Consumer Agreements
If you own a cell phone, use a credit card, or subscribe to cable or satellite TV, odds are very high that your contract with those companies contains an arbitration clause. Your employment contract very well may contain an arbitration clause. Your car loan agreement. The vacation you just booked with an online travel site. All are likely to have an arbitration clause buried somewhere in the fine print. And that’s bad news for you if you ever have a dispute with any of those companies. In a … [Read more...]
United States ex rel Julie A. Macias v. Pacific Health Corporation
Keller Grover LLP represents Julie A. Macias in a False Claims Act case pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Macias alleges in her complaint that the Defendants, including her former employer, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, engaged in a fraudulent scheme to use improper psychiatric holds and an unlawful kickback arrangement to bill Medicare and Medicare for the patients’ supposed care and treatment. Macias is a registered nurse who had … [Read more...]
Wyatt Field Service Company
On June 29, 2010, Keller Grover as lead counsel filed a California class action complaint against Wyatt Field Service Company for violations of California Business and Professions Code §§ 17200, et seq., The complaint alleged that Wyatt Field Services Company failed to pay overtime and double-time wages, failed to pay wages for all hours worked, failed to provide second meal periods for shifts lasting longer than 10 hours, and failed to provide third rest periods for shifts lasting longer … [Read more...]
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