Posted on February 11, 2013
A dermatologist in Venice, Florida, has agreed to pay $26.1 million to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by accepting illegal kickbacks from a pathology laboratory and by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary services, the U.S. Justice Department announced today....
Posted on February 11, 2013
A jury ordered a nursing home in Illinois to pay a total of $29 million in penalties for false Medicare claims to the government. Two former employees at the facility filed a complaint that the home allegedly destroyed and/or forged records to make it appear that residents were receiving...
Posted on February 8, 2013
Peter Englander and Laurence Vinocur—clients of The Chanler Group—served a combined total of ten new 60-Day Notices of Violation on companies offering products containing the flame retardant tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) or the phthalate Di(2‑ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP)...
Posted on February 8, 2013
The California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation issued Proposed New Flammability Standards for Upholstered Furniture, which would overhaul the State's decades-old furniture flammability standard, known as Technical Bulletin 117 (TB-117). TB-117 led to the addition of...
Posted on February 5, 2013
Peter Englander and Laurence Vinocur—clients of The Chanler Group—served a combined total of 12 new 60-Day Notices of Violation on companies offering products containing the flame retardant tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) or the phthalate Di(2‑ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP)...
Posted on February 5, 2013
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...
Posted on January 31, 2013
During 2012, TCG clients Peter Englander and Laurence Vinocur initiated investigations into products suspected of containing the flame retardant tris phosphate--more formally tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP)--a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer. Englander and...
Posted on January 25, 2013
On January 25, 2013, the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a notice of its intent to list the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity. BPA has been used in reusable hard plastic...
Posted on January 15, 2013
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Justice Department officials have recommended joining a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed by former teammate Floyd Landis that alleges that Lance Armstrong and team managers defrauded the U.S. government when they accepted money from the U.S. Postal...
Posted on January 4, 2013
On January 4, 2013, Peter Englander and Laurence Vinocur, clients of The Chanler Group, served a combined total of nine new 60-Day Notices of Violation on companies offering products containing the flame retardant tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) for sale in California without...
