Fri 15th Dec 2017, Blog, Case Successes
Through a negotiated settlement and a court order, whistleblower Beverly Brown has received a total relator share award of more than $78 million for her efforts in obtaining a $280 million False Claims Act settlement against Celgene Corporation. The $280 million settlement was the second largest recovery ever recorded in a non-intervened case brought under the federal False Claims Act and the relator share award to Brown is also among the largest in history. The …
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Tue 31st May 2016, Blog, Case Successes
A federal district judge in Santa Ana, California affirmed the rulings of a bankruptcy court allowing a claim of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for American Sterling Bank (the “FDIC-R”) in the amount of $10 million and approving the FDIC-R’s settlement with the debtor, the former executive of a failed bank, providing for the full amount of the FDIC-R’s claim. The appellant, a third-party creditor of the debtor, objected to the settlement and …
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Fri 30th Jan 2015, Blog, Case Successes
On a motion brought by Bienert | Katzman, a federal district judge in Detroit, Michigan struck several key affirmative defenses alleged against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Washington Mutual Bank (“FDIC-R”). Citing to and adopting several of the arguments advanced by Bienert | Katzman, the Court held that the defendant’s defenses based on the FDIC-R’s alleged lack of standing to litigate and enforce the subject breach of contract claim were improper based …
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