A University of Virginia researcher has been awarded approximately $820,000 after a federal jury found he was fired after telling authorities that his supervisor altered
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Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002, whistleblowers enjoy wide-ranging protections for reporting wrongdoing at their companies. Until now, those
West Virginia's largest agency shows a pattern of failure when it comes time to award multimillion-dollar contracts, two lawyers for the Department of Health and Human
A tax whistleblower received a $2 million reward from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for his role uncovering an alleged multimillion-dollar tax-avoidance scheme attempted
Hagens Berman client Haim Bodek is featured in a front-page Wall Street Journal story on high-frequency trading and SEC investigations. The story quotes
Largely under the public radar, the last decade has seen a legal revolution in the United States in the area of corporate freedom of speech. Although a hodgepodge of
Federal prosecutors say a New Mexico-based defense contractor with offices in Williston is going to pay over a million dollars to settle billing fraud charges. Read this
Lucent Technologies Worldwide Services (LTWSI), a subsidiary of Franco-American telecom company Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU, ALU message board), agreed to
A federal lawsuit filed by a former KB Home human resources director indicates the home-builder knew condos at the troubled Willowbrook Townhomes had structural defects
Hagens Berman's whistleblower client Kyle Lagow was featured in an ABC news story for his role in exposing widespread fraud in mortgage appraisals. Mr. Lagow's information
The U.S. futures regulator received 46 whistleblower tips in the eight months ending in August - just a fraction of the volume of tips flowing into the U.S. Securities and
The Project On Government Oversight applauds Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Todd Platts (R-Pa.) for introducing the bipartisan Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection
In a letter submitted Friday afternoon to internal investigators at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a whistleblower engineer within the agency accused regulators of
Hagens Berman partner Shayne Stevenson was quoted in a story today on a record-breaking $104 million tax whistleblower case. You can read the full story here.
Steve Berman, managing partner at Hagens Berman, a nationwide whistleblower protection law firm, today lauded an award the Internal Revenue made to former
U.S. tax authorities have awarded $104 million to a whistleblower in a major tax fraud case against Swiss bank UBS AG that widened a government crackdown on
A former Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital psychiatrist who claimed his contract with the hospital was wrongfully terminated in 2009 has recently filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit
The IRS whistleblower program has had a long, hard road but recent events have me a believer that for whistleblowers the land of milk and honey is finally in sight
A Mississippi medical equipment company has agreed to pay nearly $1.8 million to settle claims in a 2009 whistleblower lawsuit filed in Birmingham that the company
2012 is quickly shaping up to become The Year of the Scandal on Wall Street – a tall order considering the run of disrepute we've seen over the past decade. One would
