* Digging into the details of the
False Claims Act.
From botulism to litigation: what began as narrowly drawn legislation to protect Union soldiers from botulism and defective ammunition has morphed into a multibillion-dollar private litigation industry
False Claims Act litigation generates a tremendous amount of money for the federal government.
A perfect 10: the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 provides incentive for Florida to amend its own False Claims Act Legislation
True or
False: Helmets, neck rolls, or cowboy collars prevent axial loading.
What the football coach should know about catastrophic cervical cord injuries
In 2004, Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who was a key sponsor of the 1986
False Claims Act Amendments, proposed revisions to section 7623 of the internal Revenue Code that would have created a whistleblower framework similar in key respects to the
False Claims Act.
Beware the whistleblower: will the IRS take a page out of DOJ's playbook?
Both sections of the statute have broad application in health care fraud, as most fraudulent schemes involve the use of
false statements or documents.
The government's war on health care fraud: what every physician executive needs to know
True or
False? Upton Sinclair's The Jungle revealed unsanitary conditions in restaurants.
Knowledge bowl
The person who made the
false report was fined pounds 80 fixed penalty notice for wasting police time.
Alert over crime cheats; KINGS HEATH
False. On average, a girl loses four to six tablespoons of blood each month.
Your wackiest period mysteries--solved! Whether you've had your period or are playing the waiting game, you probably have a zillion questions. Well, hold on to your seats because we're about to pull the plug on all your confusion
Although installing an alarm system in your home is certainly beneficial (homes with an electronic security system are roughly two to three times less likely to be burglarized than homes without one),
false alarms have stretched police resources thin, according to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
False alarm: too many calls to your local police can cost you money
True or
False: Little hats are just as good as big hats.
Maria & Morgan's sun-safety silly quiz
It is intuitively obvious that protective-value is reduced by
false negatives: the higher the
false negative rate, the greater the likelihood that individuals with an impairment will escape detection and be charged a premium lower than appropriate for their risk.
Reassessing underwriting strategies: protective-value studies can help assess mortality risks as well as value the possible cost of losing good business
The real problem is in deciding how precautionary to be in the face of inevitable uncertainties, demanding that we understand the equally inevitable
false positives and
false negatives from screening evidence.
Risk management and precaution: insights on the cautious use of evidence
164) Zedekiah and Jeremiah illustrate the difference between
false optimism and real hope.
First Sunday in Advent November 30, 2003
This made many mathematicians conclude that it might never be possible to develop a satisfying sense of whether the hypothesis is true or
false.
Infinite wisdom: a new approach to one of mathematics' most notorious problems
Department of Justice has collected more than $5.2 billion from
False Claims Act cases, and the pace of recoveries is increasing.
False Claims Act suits should concern defense contractors. (Legal Viewpoint)