Whistleblower
Law Suits including
Qui Tam Claims,
Health Care Fraud
Claims, FEMA Fraud Claims, Road Construction Fraud,
Overseas Government Contractor Fraud Lawsuits, Public
Works Fraud,
Government Contractor Fraud Claims, and
Defense Contractor Fraud
Claims have become more common as government
spending has increased.
If you are a health care
professional, government employee, person with special
knowledge, whistle blower, or American Hero that is aware of a health care
provider committing health care fraud including
Medicare Fraud or insurance fraud, feel free to
contact
Whistleblower and Government Fraud Lawyer
Jason Coomer via
e-mail message or our
submission form about a potential whistleblower,
health care fraud, insurance fraud, or qui tam lawsuit.
Economic Incentives for Whistleblowers
Lawsuits, Government Fraud Lawsuits, and Qui Tam Lawsuits
When a government imposes a
penalty, for the doing or not doing an act, and
gives that penalty in part to whistleblowers that
will sue for the same, and the other part of the
recovery goes to the government, and makes it
recoverable by action, such actions are called "qui
tam actions", the plaintiff is suing on their own
behalf as well for the government and taxpayers.
Qui tam provisions of the False
Claims Act are based on the theory that one of the
least expensive and most effective means of
preventing frauds on taxpayers and the government is
to make the perpetrators of government fraud liable
to actions by private persons acting under the
strong stimulus of personal ill will or the hope of
gain.
The strong public policy behind
creating an economic gain for whistleblowers is that
the government would be significantly less likely to
learn of the allegations of fraud, but for persons
in certain positions with specialized knowledge of
fraud that has been committed. Congress has made it
clear that creating this economic incentive is
beneficial not only for the government, taxpayers,
and the realtor, but is an efficient method of
regulating government to prevent fraud and
fraudulent schemes.
The central purpose of the qui
tam provisions of the False Claims Act is to set up
incentives to supplement government regulation and
enforcement by encouraging whistleblowers with
specialized knowledge of fraud going on in the
government to blow the whistle on the crime.
Government Spending and Health Care Spending Increase (Government
Fraud Costs Tax Payers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars)
Government spending in the United
States has surged past Five Trillion Dollars
($5,000,000,000,000) each year and is expected to
continue to increase in the futures.
Further, Health Care Expenses in the United
States have increased to be over Two Trillion Dollars ($2,000,000,000,000.00)
Dollars each year and are expected to continue to
increase. From a taxpayer stand point, preventing
government fraud can save hundreds of billions of
dollars.
History of Whistleblowers Lawsuits, Government
Fraud Lawsuits, and Qui Tam
Lawsuits
Government
have long had trouble with unscrupulous government
contractors defrauding the government by providing
defective goods, over billing services, and seeking
payment for goods and services never provided.
The solution that many governments have created is
to set up economic incentives for whistleblowers
with inside information of fraudulent government
contracts to blow the whistle on government
contractors that are committing fraud.
Qui tam actions were used in the
13th century England as a way to enforce the King's
laws. These actions have existed in the United
States since colonial times, and were embraced by
the first U.S. Congress as a way to enforce the laws
when the new federal government had virtually no law
enforcement officers.
During the Civil War, corrupt
military contractors were defrauding the United
States Army out of hundreds of thousands of dollars
and putting troops at risk by supplying troops with
defective products and faulty war equipment. Illegal
price gouging was a common practice and the armed
forces of the United States suffered. In response,
Abraham Lincoln enacted the Federal Civil False
Claims Act. A key provision of the act was known as
qui tam.
This Act was weakened in 1943
during World War II while the government rushed to
sign large military procurement contracts. However,
it was strengthened again in 1986 after a long
period of and increase in military spending as well
as many stories of defense contractor price gouging
and government waste.
Whistleblower Lawsuits and Government Fraud Lawsuits
(Qui Tam Lawsuits & Relator Claims)
Through Whistleblower Lawsuits, Qui Tam
Lawsuits, and other Government Fraud
Lawsuits, hundreds of billions of dollars have recovered from
fraudulent government contractors that have stolen large amounts of money from the
government and taxpayers.
It is extremely important that
Whistleblowers continue to expose fraudulent billing
practices and unnecessary treatments that cost billions
of dollars. If you are aware of a large
government contractor that is defrauding the
United States Government out of millions or billions of
dollars, contact
Whistleblower and Government Fraud Lawyer Jason Coomer. As a Texas
Whistle Blower Lawyer, he works with other powerful qui
tam lawyers that handle large Government Fraud cases.
He works with San Antonio Whistleblower Lawyers, Dallas
Whistleblower
Lawyers, Houston Government Fraud Lawyers, and other Texas
Whistleblower
Lawyers as well as with Whistleblower Lawyers throughout the
nation to blow the whistle on fraud that hurts the United
States and taxpayers.
