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Medicaid Fraud

Medicaid pays for approximately 20% of all healthcare expenses in the United States, over $600 billion each year. Well over 500,000 healthcare providers, ranging from hospital chains to individual doctors to ambulance helicopter pilots, receive payments from Medicaid every year. Inevitably a few of the providers will try to defraud […]

What is Whistleblowing?

The eighteenth-century philosopher, Edmund Burke, long ago cautioned that, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.” That admonition still holds true today.  Whistleblowing involves individuals willing to come forward to stop fraud and other wrongdoing against the government (and by extension, the […]

What is a Kickback Scheme?

Quite simply, a kickback is an inducement – offering or giving something of value in exchange for getting business referrals. Although that type of behavior can be perfectly legal in some segments of the commercial world, it is not permitted when the business that is being referred is paid for […]

Berger Montague Elects Michael Dell’Angelo New Member of Firm’s Executive Committee, Elevates Shareholder Ruthanne Gordon to Chief Administrative Officer

Berger Montague is proud to announce that the firm has elected Michael Dell’Angelo as the newest member of its Executive Committee. The firm has also selected Shareholder Ruthanne Gordon to serve as its first Chief Administrative Officer.

Vermont False Claims Act

In 2015, Vermont enacted its own version of the federal False Claims Act.[1] Generally speaking, the Vermont False Claims Act is very similar to the Federal False Claims Act except that the Vermont law prohibits fraud upon the state government, while the federal law prohibits fraud upon the federal government. […]

Berger Montague Names Eric L. Cramer New Firm Chairman and Announces Next Phase of Firm’s Evolution

Berger Montague is pleased to announce that it has elected Eric L. Cramer its new firm Chair. Mr. Cramer is the fifth Chair in the firm’s illustrious 49-year history. He has been with the firm since 1995, most recently serving as co-chair of the firm’s antitrust department and on the firm’s Executive Committee.

H. Laddie Montague Jr. and Eric L. Cramer Included in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Competition 2019

Berger Montague is proud to announce that Chairman Emeritus & Of Counsel H. Laddie Montague Jr. and Chairman Eric L. Cramer are included in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Competition 2019.

What are Medically Unnecessary Services?

Medical necessity has implications for good, safe patient care and for reimbursement or payment decisions. Although an unnecessary treatment is not always dangerous, it could be used in place of a more appropriate treatment. It could also have side effects or risks that are not justified when the treatment is […]

In re Namenda Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation – Class Notice

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Notice to the Direct Purchaser Class (dated Dec. 14, 2018)

Show Us the Assets: Investors Demand That Mining Company Be Truthful About Its Assets

(December 13, 2018). Since January 31, 2017, Colt Resources, Inc.’s (“Colt”) securities have not traded and the Company has intentionally avoided its continuous disclosure obligations.  Indeed, its investors have been in the dark only learning of material facts concerning Colt’s assets being abandoned, forfeited, lost, and sold. Prior to going to […]

Writing Off An Investment Loss May Be Avoidable: Morganti & Co.’s Shareholder Litigation Practice

(December 13, 2018). Aggrieved investors are able to seek recovery for their investment losses from bad investments under certain circumstances.  Morganti & Co. offers its legal services to represent aggrieved investors in seeking damages from directors and officers of companies that mislead investors.  The legal services are provided on a contingency […]

Berger Montague Named 2018 Elite Trial Lawyers by The National Law Journal

Berger Montague is proud to announce that the firm has been named 2018 Elite Trial Lawyers by The National Law Journal in two award categories: “Environmental Protection” for the firm’s work in Cook v. Rockwell International Corporation and “Privacy/Data Breach” for the firm’s work in Beckett v. Aetna, Inc., et al.