Posted on June 5, 2018
John Moore and Laurence Vinocur have issued almost two dozen new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 last month, to companies offering products such as napkin rings, tub treads, and tool bags in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm...
Posted on May 14, 2018
Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer Alere Inc. and its subsidiary Alere San Diego (Alere) have agreed to pay the United States $33.2 million to resolve allegations that Alere caused hospitals to submit false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs by...
Posted on April 27, 2018
John Moore and Laurence Vinocur have issued dozens of new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 this month, to companies offering products such as watches, audio cables, and stickers in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm without the...
Posted on April 11, 2018
Toyobo Co. Ltd. of Japan and its American subsidiary, Toyobo U.S.A. Inc., f/k/a Toyobo America Inc. (collectively, Toyobo), have agreed to pay $66 million to resolve claims under the False Claims Act that they sold defective Zylon fiber used in bullet proof vests that the United States purchased...
Posted on March 26, 2018
John Moore and Laurence Vinocur have issued over 20 new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 to companies offering products such as decorated tableware, pet carriers, and greenhouse covers in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm...
Posted on March 11, 2018
UPMC Hamot (Hamot), a hospital based in Erie, Pennsylvania – and now affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) – and Medicor Associates Inc. (Medicor), a regional physician cardiology practice, have agreed to pay the government $20,750,000 to settle a False...
Posted on February 27, 2018
John Moore and Laurence Vinocur have issued over new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 to companies offering products such as decorated tableware, fidget spinners, and rain gauges in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm without...
Posted on February 14, 2018
TCG client Peter Englander has filed a lawsuit in Marin County Superior Court against The Home Depot, Inc., alleging that Home Depot manufactured, distributed, and sold vinyl/PVC toilet seats to consumers in California without warning them that the toilet seats exposed them to the phthalate...
Posted on February 12, 2018
Pine Creek Medical Center LLC (“Pine Creek”), a physician-owned hospital serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area, has agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by paying physicians kickbacks in the form of marketing services in exchange for surgical...
Posted on January 23, 2018
The Department of Justice announced that Hyperion Foundation, a Georgia not-for-profit entity (Hyperion), Julie Mittleider, a resident of Georgia and Hyperion’s former President, AltaCare Corporation, a Georgia corporation engaged in nursing home management (AltaCare), Douglas Mittleider,...
