Managing Partner Neil V. Getnick will present “Whistleblowers: A Primer” to the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute, the training and research arm of the National Association of Attorneys General. Mr. Getnick’s presentation will provide practical information regarding how to encourage reporting of corruption and how to recruit whistleblowers, as well as how to…
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Whistles Blowin’ in the Wind: Past, Present and Likely Future Landscape of Pharmaceutical Fraud Cases
ABA National Institute on Health Care Fraud 2004 (conference papers). By Lesley Ann Skillen and Megan M. Scheurer In the three years since 2001, pharmaceutical companies have paid in excess of $1.6 billion to federal and state governments in civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) settlements. It’s a boom time for pharmaceutical fraud investigations and prosecutions,…
Remarks of Neil V. Getnick at First International Conference on Corporate Governance and Economic Growth in Russia
Panel V (Corruption and Transparency) First International Conference on Corporate Governance and Economic Growth in Russia Moscow, Marriott Grand Hotel – June 3, 2004 As we are all aware, Russia today must deal with the problems of corruption and lack of transparency. Let me describe a man who illustrates those problems: He holds the position…
A New Breed of Whistleblower
by Lesley Ann Skillen, Esq. Published in Pharmaceutical Executive, August 2003 The recent $257 million settlement between the government and Bayer Corporation — $34 million of which will be paid to a whistleblower — is emblematic of a new kind of whistleblowing. The $257 million was the largest Medicaid fraud settlement in history. The whistleblower…
The Fundamentals of Qui Tam
International Association of Defense Counsel 2003 Mid-Year Meeting, February 2003 (meeting papers) by Neil V. Getnick & Lesley Ann Skillen Introduction In 1995, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) marked the recovery of its first billion dollars under the qui tam provisions of the amended 1986 False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq., with a…
The Upward Spiral: A U.S. Outlook on International Anti-Bribery Efforts in the New Millennium
Published in the International Law Practicum, Vol.14 No.1 (2001) by Neil V. Getnick and Richard J. Dircks 1. Introduction At the dawn of this new millennium, we are positioned uniquely as a world community to combat bribery in international business transactions. With the passage of overlapping international laws, the U.S. is no longer alone in…
Managed Health Care: Treatment Rationing for the New Millennium?
American Bar Association National Institute on Health Care Fraud 2001 by Lesley Ann Skillen, Esq. Back in 1998, James Sheehan, the noted Chief of the Civil Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, forecast the future of enforcement in the era of managed care thus: “No longer will we be involved primarily with…
Anti-Fraud is Not Anti-Business: How Corporations Can Use the Whistle-Blower Law to Level the Playing Field
by Lesley Ann Skillen A modified version of this article was published in Report on Medicare Compliance, Vol. 8, No. 9, March 18, 1999 Imagine this: It is 1988. You are the CEO of Acme Consolidated Clinical Laboratories, Inc., a prosperous nationally-based chain of clinical testing laboratories. A memo from the CFO lands of your…
The “Multiple Relator” Phenomenon in the Qui Tam Law
Neil V. Getnick, Lesley Ann Skillen and Richard J. Dircks Getnick & Getnick LLP New York, New York Published in The Taxpayer’s Against Fraud False Claims Act and Qui Tam Quarterly Review,. Vol. 13, April 1998 I. Introduction The past few years have witnessed a series of multi-million dollar fraud recoveries against major national and…
Recent Developments on False Claims Act Liability Issues from the Relator’s Perspective
by Neil V. Getnick and Richard J. Dircks American Bar Association National Institute on the Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement (1998) I. INTRODUCTION The past year has proven to be highly active in the field of False Claims Act (“FCA” or the “Act”) litigation, especially in the area of health care fraud….