I wanted to bring a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to your attention. Anyone concerned with whistleblower law or the False Claims Act or really any other area of law should take note of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt. The case’s facts are unlikely […]
As someone who is working with Gulf residents every day to see to it that they receive compensation for the harm caused by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, I was disheartened to see that the Trump administration is now loosening many of the protections put in place by the Obama administration. Politics aside, I […]
All employers here in Mississippi have a legal duty to pay into the workers’ compensation system. The point of workers’ compensation is simple: employers pay into the system so that workers’ injuries are paid for in the event of a workplace injury. Employees are covered by workers’ compensation even if the injury was the result […]
You have probably seen many advertisements for multiple myeloma cases on television here in Mississippi. Massive class action cases are providing compensation for many people who were exposed to asbestos and other materials that caused multiple myeloma, often through their service in the United States military. But what if you had multiple myeloma and your […]
The U.S. Department of Justice only prosecutes the strongest whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act and other federal whistleblower laws. As we all know, with the advent of the smartphone, almost everyone has an audio recorder at their fingertips at all times. Audio recordings often make up the most reliable evidence in any case, […]
While we often associate our time in the hospital or medical center with physicians, we actually have much more contact with nurses. Here in Mississippi, I have helped several clients with personal injury cases that stemmed from nurses’ mistakes, negligence, and misconduct. Because this is such a common situation, I have written the following blog […]
As I have stated in other blog posts, any fraud or kickback in the medical field implicates the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provisions. That is because almost every aspect of the medical field receives some government funding. The False Claims Act prohibits any type of fraud against the federal government, so if you are a […]
If you have received medical treatment lately for any serious medical condition, you have likely not only been seen by your primary care physician but also by a revolving door of specialists. Were those specialists also your doctor? The answer to that question, whether a physician-patient relationship is created between a specialist and a patient […]
For some, school is out for the year, and it is about to be summer camp season here in Mississippi. Unfortunately, you do not have to search very hard on the internet to find tragic stories of children who were injured or killed while they should have been having the times of their lives swimming, […]
Giving birth to a child ought to be a miraculous moment; unfortunately, it can instantaneously become a nightmare if a maternal infection threatens the baby or the mother. A “maternal infection” is an exposure to a serious infection that can be passed in utero to an unborn child. Maternal infections can kill either the child […]
