BC Advantage - 2018 Issue 11

The False Claims Act, Knowledge and the 60 Day Rule

Since its inception in 1863, the False Claims Act (“FCA”), which is also known as the “Lincoln Law,”  has been a tool for the government to uncover fraud and return ill-gotten gains to the government’s coffers. In December 2017, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had recovered over $3.7 billion from False Claims Act cases in Fiscal Year 2017.  Over time, the penalties have increased, the law has evolved, and definitions have become refined. Three important terms of the FCA, which have entered the vernacular of lawyers...

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