Posted on September 26, 2014
Caremark L.L.C., operated by CVS Caremark Corporation, has agreed to pay the U.S. federal government $6 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicaid for prescription drug beneficiaries who were eligible for drug benefits...
Posted on September 24, 2014
Client Laurence Vinocur has filed a complaint against A.D. Sutton and Sons, Inc. alleging that the company violated Proposition 65 by selling backpacks with vinyl/PVC components to California customers without the requisite health hazard warning for exposure to di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP)....
Posted on September 24, 2014
Pennsylvania-based Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC has agreed to pay $56.5 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Shire manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals,...
Posted on September 19, 2014
Client Russell Brimer has negotiated a settlement with Seasonal Specialties LLC in regards to LED lights and other string lights with PVC cables that allegedly contained di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), a chemical known to the State of California to cause birth defects and other reproductive harm...
Posted on September 19, 2014
M.K. Battery and its parent company, East Penn Manufacturing, have agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Department of Defense, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported earlier this week.
M.K. Battery...
Posted on September 17, 2014
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. has certified to TCG client Russell Brimer that it will distribute, offer for sale, or sell in California or to California customers only ottomans virtually free of the flame retardant chemicals tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate (TDCPP), tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate (...
Posted on September 17, 2014
Maryland-based Episcopal Ministries to the Aging Inc. (EMA) has agreed to pay $1.3 million to the federal government to settle allegations that the nonprofit knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary rehabilitation therapy provided by...
Posted on September 12, 2014
Managing attorney Josh Voorhees will be speaking Monday at Proposition 65 Clearinghouse's annual Prop. 65 Conference, which is being held this year at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in downtown San Francisco. Environmentalists, researchers, representatives from California's Office of...
Posted on September 10, 2014
The U.S. federal government has filed two complaints against a Michigan neurosurgeon (Dr. Aria Sabit), a spinal implant company (Reliance Medical Systems), two of that company’s distributorships (Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies), and the company’s owners (Brett...
Posted on September 10, 2014
Peter Englander has negotiated a settlement with Home Meridian International, Inc. ("Home Meridian") regarding alleged violations of Proposition 65. Englander alleged that Home Meridian sold padded upholstered furniture containing the flame retardant tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)...
