Posted on May 10, 2013
Cliff Chanler, the founder of The Chanler Group, was featured in Bay Area TV station KTVU’s news report about a possible overhaul of Proposition 65.
Proposition 65, or The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires businesses that offer products for sale in...
Posted on May 10, 2013
Cliff Chanler, the founder of The Chanler Group, was featured in Bay Area TV station KTVU’s news report about a possible overhaul of Proposition 65.
California State Assemblymember Mike Gatto recently introduced Assembly Bill 227 (“AB 227”), a bill aimed at providing certain small...
Posted on May 9, 2013
A recent study by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine shows that children who were exposed to flame retardant compounds in the air and dust before they were born may suffer from behavior and cognition difficulties during early childhood and onward, Scientific American reported....
Posted on May 9, 2013
A federal jury has found South Carolina-based Tuomey Healthcare System violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act when it collected nearly $40 million in fraudulent Medicare claims, reported Sumter, S.C.’s The Item.
Tuomey Healthcare System was accused of signing 19 doctors to lucrative...
Posted on May 8, 2013
Excerpted from full article at KQED:
In 2011, the most recent year listed on the attorney general's website, attorneys reached settlements with business owners in 338 cases alleging Proposition 65 infringement, resulting in just under $12 million in attorneys fees. Sixty-one of those cases...
Posted on May 7, 2013
Adventist Health and its Los Angeles-based affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center have agreed to pay the United States and the State of California $14.1 million to settle allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Act, the Stark Statute, and the False Claims Act, the U.S....
Posted on May 7, 2013
BERKELEY, CA – The Chanler Group, www.chanler.com, the nation’s leading law firm that represents citizens acting in the public interest to enforce Proposition 65, announced today that it supports the reforms proposed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to strengthen and restore the...
Posted on May 7, 2013
The Chanler Group, the nation’s leading law firm that represents citizens acting in the public interest to enforce Proposition 65, announced today that it supports the reforms proposed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to strengthen and restore the intent of Proposition 65 to protect...
Posted on May 6, 2013
On April 23, 2013, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown granted California Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris’s motion for judgment on the pleadings against the complaint of Plaintiffs Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of The Chanler Group, and dismissing...
Posted on May 3, 2013
This week, the California State Assembly’s Committee on the Judiciary voted 10-0 to pass a dramatically revamped version of the proposed legislative amendment to Proposition 65, known as Assembly Bill (“AB”) 227. The bill was originally written to provide anyone receiving a...
