Recent amendments to the federal False Claims Act have expanded whistleblower protections and increased penalties for violators. The amendments came in the form of the federal Deficit Reduction Act, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, the Affordable Care Act, and the Dodd-Frank Act.
California revamped its own False Claims Act earlier this year to bring it into...
On February 5, 2013, California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit against Standard and Poor's Financial Services LLC and the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. , alleging violations of the California False Claims Act and other state law for inflating ratings of investments, which caused California's teachers public employees' pension funds, among others, to...
On January 1, 2013, the amendments to the California False Claims Act, signed into law last year by Governor Jerry Brown, took effect. The amendments, among other things, expand the definition of a claim under the state False Claims Act, increase the civil penalties for each violation of the law, and provide qui tam plaintiffs with up to 33% of the proceeds of the action or...
