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Roundtable-False Claims

Apr. 1, 2012

False Claims

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy Dechert Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and the U.S. Attorney's Office.

California legal history was made last May when the attorney general's office and a medical testing company agreed to settle a false claims dispute for a record-setting $241 million. During our roundtable, counsel for both the whistleblower and the accused companies debated the impact of Hunter Labs on false claims cases. ((State of California ex rel. Hunter Labs. v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., No. CIV 34-2009-00048046 (Sacramento Cny. Super. Ct.).)

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