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Tennessee False Claims Act Lawsuits Are Being Filed

The Tennessee False Claims Act provides incentives for citizens reporting fraudulent activities impacting the government over a broad area. It allows filing of qui tam lawsuits in Tennessee courts by whistleblowers or relators seeking prosecution of the guilty and recovery of defrauded taxpayers’ money. Apart from a slew of measures ensuring safety and security of whistleblowers, the False Claims Act in Tennessee also provides for reward to relators for their assistance in retrieval of embezzled state funds. In 2013, funds exceeding $3 billion were successfully recovered following more than 850 active interventions of whistleblowers and their false claim lawyers nationwide and at least $387 million in awarded to them for their acts of patriotism.  In other words, Tennessee False Claims Act relators have been awarded over $387 Million Dollars.

Types of Cases Under the Tennessee False Claims Act

Entities, private individuals, or businesses in the state can be named as defendants in qui tam lawsuits filed according to the protocol laid in the Tennessee False Claims Act, if they are directly responsible or party to any of the following fraud committed.

• Pharmaceutical Frauds, such as off-label marketing, offering kickbacks to promote products, violation of good manufacturing practice, fraudulent price hike, selling of drugs without adhering to Drug Effectiveness Study Implementation protocols, medical device fraud, reporting false price to defraud Medicaid, and compound drug making without FDA approval.
• Healthcare Frauds, includingmaking fraudulent claims for reimbursement, upcoding, overbilling, non-compliance to relevant equipment procurement laws, intentional inaccurate billing, unnecessary medical services, violation of anti-Kickback Statute, infringement of the Stark Statute of 1989 on overutilization of medical procedures, ambulance fraud, etc. It is one of the most reported frauds in Tennessee and the state has a separate Medicaid False Claims Act to deal with all these frauds.
• Financial Transaction Frauds, such as deceitful financial transactions, supplying goods and services to the state at a rate higher than the market prices, conning the government in financial dealings, improper request for support under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and submitting falsified information to seek government financial assistance in the form of loan guarantees or HUD funds. Though there are a few instances of financial transaction frauds, qui tam lawsuits filed on such false claims are highly lucrative due to a large amount of rewards for whistleblowers.
• Procurement Frauds, including false payment claims, providing sub-standard goods and services, overcharging for services or goods supplied, offering kickbacks, rigging bids to get procurement contracts, material violation of contracts, mid-way price hike, overpayment, and failure to deliver according to contract conditions.
• Defense Contractor Fraud, such as cross-charging, overcharging, change of fixed price to cost-plus system, providing substandard products, inflation of costs, contract term violation, wrong product substitution, etc.

The broad-worded statute of the Tennessee False Claims Act encourages citizens to help the government track down fraudulent activity and ensure the most effective use of the public money. Though the Act enunciated tough provisions to deter anyone from perpetrating fraud against the state, there has been a surge of discovery of such incidents in the last few years, with 2013 witnessing about 89 percent increase in qui tam lawsuits. However, an effective litigation leading to successful recovery award requires support and guidance of a skilled, qualified, expert, and professional False Claims Act attorney.

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