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Jordan Cohen
In 2018, the volume of False Claims Act (FCA) litigation remained high, and health care-related qui tam (i.e., whistleblower) cases continued to lead the way.
As previously noted in this blog, the Neiman Marcus payment card data theft class action reflects a lenient approach to the issue of standing in data breach cases.
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Noah B. Aschen,
Hope Foster,
Bridgette Keller
The relator also alleged that beginning in 1998, as a result of the error in the MATP calculation, Medicaid made excessive
depreciation-reimbursement payments to NRV.
Fourth Circuit Decision Seizes Middle Ground On The Issue Of Standing In Data Breach Cases.
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Thomas Crane,
Hope Foster,
Amanda Talbott Muskat,
Benjamin Zegarelli
Last week, Mintz Levin's Health Care Enforcement Defense Group published a new Qui Tam Update, which analyzes 60 health care-related False Claims Act qui tam cases unsealed...
A challenge to the use of a cy pres charitable donations to settle privacy claims against Google will be heard by the Supreme Court.
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Eoin Beirne,
Eric Eastham,
Hope Foster,
Sarah Beth S. Kuyers
•We identified 56 health care related qui tam cases that were unsealed in October and November 2017.
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Jane Haviland
A circuit split on whether actual misuse of personal data is required to have standing to assert data breach claims remains unresolved. Last week the Supreme Court rejected a petition to review...
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Hope Foster,
Nicole E. Henry,
Matthew Levitt,
Joel Nolette
•We identified 47 health care-related qui tam cases that were unsealed in August and September 2017.
The parties had been due to make their joint scheduling submission to the Court today.
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Hope Foster
In this issue we report on recent qui tam activity and look at three unsealed cases.
Despite some courts' evident confusion about the impact of payment card theft on consumer cardholders, other courts are getting it right. Just this week, a judge in the Northern District of Illinois issued...
Snatching victory of a sort from the jaws of defeat, shareholders who brought a derivative action alleging that the 2014 Home Depot data breach resulted from officers' and directors' breaches...
When data thieves steal payment card data, consumers suffer no legally cognizable injuries.
Counsel for a class of card-issuing banks filed a settlement agreement on March 8 proposing a class settlement to resolve claims arising from the 2014 theft of payment card data from Home Depot point-of-sale terminals.
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