November 7, 2019
News
Chicago Title conspired with Gina Champion-Cain and ANI Development, LLC to defraud investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.
November 1, 2019
News
Berger Montague is pleased to announce that the Firm has been named a 2020 “Best Law Firm” by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. The “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes collecting client and lawyer evaluations, gathering peer reviews from leading attorneys in the field, and reviewing additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.
October 10, 2019
News
Berger Montague is pleased to announce that David Sorensen and Nick Urban have won the American Antitrust Institute’s 2019 Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Practice Award for their work on King Drug Co. of Florence, Inc. v. Cephalon, Inc. (Provigil).
September 23, 2019
News
Berger Montague is proud to announce that Chair Emeritus & Of Counsel H. Laddie Montague Jr. has been named to the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2019 “Best of the Bar: Philadelphia’s Top Lawyers.” Mr. Montague is recognized in the Business Litigation category.
September 19, 2019
News
Berger Montague is proud to announce that 21 of its attorneys have been named 2019 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers. According to Lawdragon’s website, this guide presents a curated look at the best of the U.S. plaintiff bar who specialize in representing individual investors and shareholders, as well as businesses and other organizations harmed by corporate misconduct or other failures.
September 3, 2019
False Claims Act Information
The Oklahoma Medicaid False Claims Act (“Oklahoma Medicaid FCA”) provides severe penalties for individuals who submit false claims to SoonerCare (Oklahoma’s Medicaid program). It also provides powerful incentives and protections for private individuals with knowledge of Medicaid fraud to pursue claims on the State’s behalf. The Oklahoma Legislature adopted the […]
August 28, 2019
False Claims Act Legal News
The Public Disclosure Bar in False Claims Act Cases A provision of the False Claims Act commonly referred to as the Public Disclosure Bar stops relators from pursuing actions on behalf of the government if the “transactions and allegations” of fraud have been publicly disclosed through various sources listed in […]
August 21, 2019
False Claims Act Legal News
On August 5, 2019, the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois issued a rare ruling granting partial summary judgment for plaintiff-relators in a False Claims Act case. United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu, Inc. et al., No. 11-3290, 2019 WL 3558483 (C.D.Ill. Aug. 5, 2019). […]
August 19, 2019
News
The law firms of Berger Montague PC, Sauder Schelkopf, and Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman announce that a nationwide class action lawsuit has been filed against the medical device manufacturer Allergan to protect women with Allergan’s textured breast implants from the increased risk of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), which has now been associated with Allergan’s BIOCELL textured breast implants.
August 15, 2019
News
Berger Montague is proud to announce that eight of the Firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers in “The Best Lawyers in America 2020 Edition.” According to Best Lawyers’ press release, lawyers named to this year’s publication were recognized by their peers in the legal industry for their professional excellence in 146 practice areas.
August 6, 2019
News
Berger Montague is investigating alleged wrongdoing and potential fraud at GPB Capital Holdings, LLC (“GPB Capital”) and its limited partnership funds, as well as David Gentile, its founder and Chief Executive Officer; and Michael Cohn, its Chief Compliance Officer.
August 6, 2019
False Claims Act Legal News
If one reads between the lines of a May 7, 2019 opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (covering Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi), it appears that the court comes to the seemingly unremarkable conclusion that Medicare would not intentionally pay for hospice care for patients who […]