Posted on March 13, 2013
Dr. Whitney Leeman, a client of The Chanler Group, commenced three Proposition 65 private enforcement actions today against manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of food extracts, flavors, and colorings containing 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI or 4MI), a chemical known to the State of California...
Posted on March 12, 2013
Tennessee-based Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (collectively, Grace) have agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare and TennCare/Medicaid programs for unnecessary rehabilitation therapy, the...
Posted on March 11, 2013
Colorado-based CH2M Hill Hanford Group (CHG) and its parent company CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. (CH2M Hill) admitted to criminal conduct when CHG engaged in years of widespread time card fraud on the U.S. Department of Energy. Between 1999 and 2008, CH2M Hill had a federal contract to manage and...
Posted on March 9, 2013
New York-based Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay $5.65 million to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it knowingly presented false claims for laboratory research products it sold to federal agencies through its Life Sciences division.
In 2005, Corning entered a contract to sell...
Posted on March 8, 2013
American Systems Corporation, Anixter International Inc., and Corning Cable Systems LLC have agreed to pay the U.S. government $3 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Act while bidding on a contract with the CIA, the U.S. Justice Department...
Posted on March 6, 2013
New Jersey-based Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday and agreed to pay $45 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability in the company’s promotion of its prescription drug Megace® ES for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and...
Posted on March 5, 2013
Mohanbi “Mohan” Ramchandani and his business Mohan’s Custom Tailors, located in Manhattan, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and agreed to pay $5.5 million in damages and penalties to settle a first of its kind prosecution for tax evasion under New York State's False Claims Act....
Posted on March 4, 2013
Peter Englander, Anthony Held, Laurence Vinocur, and John Moore--clients of The Chanler Group--served a total of nine new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 on companies offering products in California containing chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, without first...
Posted on March 2, 2013
The Marin County Superior Court recently entered a Proposition 65 default judgment in favor of TCG client Russell Brimer and against Liberty Apparel Company, permanently enjoining Liberty Apparel from selling any jeans with belts made from materials containing the chemical lead without first...
Posted on March 1, 2013
The L.A. Times reports that the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has filed suit to halt the addition of Bisphenol-A (BPA) to the Prop 65 chemical list. ACC filed suit in Sacramento against the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (...
