New False Claims Act Whistleblower Trends Revealed in Recent Verdict: What Can We Learn?

On October 20, 2014 in a case brought by a whistleblower under the False Claims Act , a federal jury handed down a $175 million verdict in favor of the plaintiff . While the outcome was newsworthy because of its size and the fact that it calls into question a highway guardrail design currently in use on many highways, one of the most startling aspects of the case was, as Rachel Louise Ensign of the Wall Street Journal put it in her article on October 22 , "the fact that the government has not intervened in the case."



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