Defective Seat Beat Lawsuits and Failed Safety Belt Webbing Lawsuits by Texas Defective Safety Belt Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Defective Seat Belt Lawsuits, Defective Safety Belt and Shoulder Strap Lawsuits, Deadly Vehicle Accident Lawsuits, Texas Deadly Defective Seatbelt Lawsuits, and Defective Safety Restraint Design Lawsuits by Texas Defective Seatbelt Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Defective seat belts, failed seat backs, defective safety designs, defective safety belt webbing, defective airbags and or other crashworthiness defects in automobiles can turn a simple automobile accident into a fatal automobile collision, deadly car wreck, or catastrophic injury crash.  In designing automobiles, manufacturers know that it is important to design vehicles with safety features that protect occupants.  A manufacturer's failure to design a safe vehicles that are crashworthy and designed to protect vehicle occupants, can result in a vehicle crash that injures or kills drivers and vehicle passengers.  

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Defective Safety Belts, Shoulder Belts, and other restraining safety devices in an automobile can cause catastrophic injuries or even death to a driver or passengers during an automobile crash. Because seatbelts have a variety of moving parts, it is important to understand how the moving parts work and if each of the parts are working correctly when investigating a defective seat belt fatal accident or defective seatbelt catastrophic injury car crash.  This investigation should look at the overall design of the restraint devices in the vehicle and compare it to the injuries sustained by the driver and passengers as well as determine if any individual part of each safety belt, should belt, child safety seat, airbag, and other safety devices were working properly. Typically, defective seatbelt lawsuits and defective safety restraint device lawsuits can be broken down into many categories of defects. 

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One such category of defective safety belt and defective seatbelt lawsuits are defective seat belt latch lawsuits, defective shoulder strap latch lawsuits, and defective safety restraint latch lawsuits.  In investigating a defective seatbelt latch lawsuit, the defective seatbelt latch lawyer should remember that a seatbelt latch should never unlatch inadvertently. The only time it should unlatch is when the user chooses to unlatch it by pushing whatever apparatus is required to disengage the latch. 

Sometimes a buckle will disengage on its own. Sometimes a latch plate will never securely lock into the buckle and will pull out with little or no effort. These are just two examples of some of the more common latch defects. Inertial unlatching, inadvertent unlatching and false latching are the most commonly encountered latch defects. Inertial unlatching is a situation in which a latch plate will release out of the buckle during a collision. This is commonly a result of an external force applied to certain components of the seatbelt. Allegations of inertial unlatching have been around since the 1970s and were dismissed by car manufacturers. Subsequently, evidence of inertial unlatching has made it a real issue and a viable defect claim. This defect has been identified in seatbelt systems in which the buckle is housed in a rigid stock secured to the vehicle’s frame. With force to the bottom of the stock, the latchplate can be released from the buckle. That is not the only way inertial unlatching can occur. Investigate the possibility of inertial unlatching when considering a failed seatbelt case.

Inadvertent unlatching can be caused by flying debris or flailing limbs contacting the buckle release button during a rollover or other collision. When a foreseeable accident occurs, there is often flying debris throughout the vehicle, and occupants’ limbs are prone to flailing. These scenarios are foreseeable in a collision and seatbelt buckles are intended to stay latched even in the presence of flying debris contacting the buckle release button. Some buckles are better than others at withstanding contact from flying debris. Chrysler’s Generation 3 seatbelt buckles that were installed in many Chrysler products from 1993-2003 were especially susceptible to inadvertent unlatching. If there is a basis for believing that your occupant was belted before the accident but during the accident scenario became unbuckled, investigate the possibility of inadvertent unlatching. False-latching occurs when the latch plate looks, feels and sounds like it is secured in the buckle but is not securely locked in place. Chrysler’s Generation 3 seatbelt buckles that were installed in many Chrysler products from 1993-2003 were especially susceptible to false-latching due to the spacing and structure of their buckles. These buckles were laid out in a way that a user could fully insert the latch plate into the buckle but miss the entire locking mechanism and therefore, never secure the buckle.

A post collision analysis of the buckle can often indicate if false-latching is a concern. When a seatbelt latch fails it is possible the police report will state, and may be corroborated by first responders and witnesses, that the occupant was not wearing a seatbelt. As discussed above, latches can fail and occupants can appear no longer belted after an accident. Thoroughly analyze the seatbelts and interview all witnesses to see if there is any evidence of usage and/or the possibility of the seatbelt failing. 

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Another category of defective safety belt and defective seatbelt lawsuits are defective seatbelt spooling lawsuits, defective shoulder strap spooling lawsuits, and defective safety restraint spooling lawsuits.  In investigating a defective seatbelt spooling lawsuit, the defective seatbelt spooling lawyer should remember that a seatbelt retractor device should keep the driver and passengers in a vehicle properly restrained during a collision.  The seatbelt retractor should lock the seatbelt and hold the driver and passengers in place preventing them from hitting the windshield or other parts of the inside of the vehicle that could cause serious injury or death.  In order words a proper functioning retractor should not release excess slack during a collision allowing the occupants to move and potentially suffer serious or fatal injuries. 

Seatbelt and safety belt spooling occurs when an excess amount of webbing is introduced into a seatbelt during a collision or rollover event because of a defect in the retractor device. When a defective retractor fails to properly lock, excessive seatbelt webbing can be released out of the defective retractor and results in excess seatbelt webbing or slack in the seatbelt that can prevent the driver or passengers from being safely held in place causing a catastrophic or fatal injury in what should have been an injury free collision.

Seatbelt spooling can happen for many reasons. Regardless of the reason, the seatbelt should not spool-out and fail to keep a driver or passenger properly restrained during a collision or rollover event. If in post-collision the post accident investigation, the seatbelt is found with excess slack in the belt, it is important to carefully consider and analyze the possibility of a spooling defect. Also, if a driver or passenger hit the windshield or appears to have moved a lot when they should have been properly restrained, it is important to consider the possibility of spooling and a defective seatbelt retractor device.

Through pictures or post-collision vehicle inspections, the presence of too much webbing in the belt can often be identified. The defective retractor device often cannot be identified by a cursory examination of the vehicle wreckage, but typically is only identified by experienced defective seatbelt spooling lawyers and the use of defective seatbelt spooling experts. Even if it can be determined that spooling happened, it often takes an experienced defective seatbelt lawyer or expert to determine the cause of the defective seatbelt retractor. Sometimes a seatbelt will spool-out simply as a result of the retractor failing to lock up during a collision. Please keep in mind that retractors are designed to be triggered by certain events. They are created to lock up when there is force applied in one direction or another. For example, a retractor obviously should lock with the force of a high-speed front-end collision.  In the front-end collision, a secure shoulder belt should restrain the driver and passengers in the seats and prevent injurious contacts with the steering wheel and windshield. In front-end collision cases, defective spooling causing a slack or loosely fitting shoulder belt could fail to hold a driver or passenger in their seat and allow them to be thrown into the steering wheel, windshield, or other parts of the interior of a vehicle.

A defective retractor can also fail to lock during a rollover collision, allowing to excess webbing to be introduced into the seatbelts and allowing drivers and passengers to be thrown free during the rollover. Traditional seatbelt systems have been typically ill-equipped to account for the vehicle dynamics of a rollover. In a rollover, however, seatbelts are critical in limiting occupant excursion. Occupant excursion is the extent to which the driver's and passenger's bodies move out of their original seating position during a collision event. Typically, the greater the excursion, the greater the chance of injury. Many retractors, by design, let out excess slack during a rollover because the mechanism for locking the retractor is ineffective while the vehicle is rolling. Instead of staying locked through the entirety of a rollover event, some seatbelt retractors will lock and unlock as the vertical and horizontal forces on the vehicle change. Retractors should stay locked during the entirety of a collision.

A retractor staying locked throughout a rollover is essential to limiting occupant excursion. When investigating and pleading a design defect seatbelt case, always be current on what safer alternative designs were available when the vehicle was manufactured. There are multiple safer alternative designs on the market that can alleviate spooling. Some automobile manufacturers incorporate more than one retractor into their seatbelt systems in case one fails. Rollover fired seatbelt pretensioners were developed in the past ten years to address many of the retractor issues related to rollovers. They are activated when a rollover is sensed and automatically pull in and lock the seatbelt. Seat integrated, or All-Belts to Seats, systems are systems where the seatbelt housing is located in the seat and not the B-Pillar. Also, Web-Grabbers help alleviate the chances of spooling. All of these are safer alternative designs that help to significantly reduce occupant excursion in a collision event. When investigating a design defect seatbelt case, determine what safer alternative designs were economically and technologically feasible at the time the vehicle was manufactured. Retractors can fail to lock because of a variety of defects including design defects and manufacturing defects. 

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Another category of defective safety belt and defective seatbelt lawsuits are defective seatbelt webbing lawsuits, defective shoulder strap webbing lawsuits, and defective webbing manufacturing lawsuits.  In investigating a defective seatbelt webbing lawsuit, the defective seatbelt webbing lawyer should remember that seatbelt webbing should not break or come apart in most vehicle collisions.  Seatbelt webbing that has broken has probably been cut or was the result of a seatbelt manufacturing defect.  In order words seatbelt webbing should not rip or tear apart during a collision allowing the occupants to move and potentially suffer serious or fatal injuries.

The presence of ripped or torn safety belt webbing should raise a red flag that there may be a defect or manufacturing flaw in the safety belt webbing.  When the seatbelt tears or is ripped in half during an accident, something has probably gone terribly wrong. Seat belt webbing is designed to withstand the forces of most survivable collisions without ripping or tearing. Torn or ripped seatbelt webbing might occur because of a defect or manufacturing flaw in the webbing itself, such as material or weaving deficiencies.  Ripped or torn webbing might also be the consequence of some other type of automobile defect including defective spooling, defective detractor, or defective safety design. 

Automobile Accident Defective Safety Restraint Design Lawsuits, Automobile Seatbelt Design Crash Lawsuits, Automobile Wreck Defective Shoulder Belt Design Lawsuits and Fatal Automobile Collision Defective Safety Restraint Design Lawsuits (Texas Defective Seatbelt and Safety Restraint Device Design Lawyer)

Another category of defective safety belt and defective seatbelt lawsuits are defective seatbelt design lawsuits, defective shoulder strap design lawsuits, and defective safety restraint design lawsuits.  In investigating a defective seatbelt design lawsuit, the defective safety design lawyer should remember that a seatbelt retractor device should keep the driver and passengers in a vehicle properly restrained during a collision.  The seatbelt retractor should lock the seatbelt and hold the driver and passengers in place preventing them from hitting the windshield or other parts of the inside of the vehicle that could cause serious injury or death.  In order words a proper functioning retractor should not release excess slack during a collision allowing the occupants to move and potentially suffer serious or fatal injuries. 

Also, sometimes simply the geometry, or layout, of the seatbelt system is such that it will necessarily allow occupant excursion during a crash and render the restraint system ineffective. For  a seatbelt system to be effective, it is important that the seatbelts work in conjunction with the vehicle's seats and surrounding structure.  If the seatbelt safety restrain system is not compatible with the interior of the vehicle or there are other defects in the vehicle including defective airbags, defective seats, or a defective roof, the crashworthiness of the vehicle may be defective and cause drivers or passengers to be injured or killed due to a combination of vehicle failures.

Additionally, defective automatic seatbelt design systems and defective automatic door lock systems can cause dangers if they release during a collision.  For example an automatic seatbelt and door lock system can cause restraints to be released and doors to be opened during a rollover accident. This could cause the driver and passengers to be thrown around inside the vehicle or even out of the vehicle. 

Automobile Accident Crashworthiness Defective Air Bag Lawsuits and Fatal Automobile Collision Crashworthiness Defective Air Bag Lawsuits (Automobile Defective Airbag Product Liability Lawsuits)

Defective Air Bag Claims may arise out of serious automobile accidents where a defective air bag was the cause of death or a catastrophic injury.  An air bag injury may result when an air bag deploys at low impact or no impact. The defective airbag will deploy at tremendous force which is necessary to protect passengers from  forward momentum of a high-speed crash. However, if the air bag deploys At low speed, deployment can snap the head and neck back severely, resulting in spinal damage, brain injury and soft tissue damage. Facial lacerations and even broken bones in the face are also common. Sometimes air bags fail to deploy when they should, resulting in chest, head, face and or neck injury as the body is propelled against the dashboard, windshield or seatback. For more information on Texas Defective Airbag Lawsuits, please go to the following web page on Texas Defective Airbag Lawyer.

Catastrophic Injury Defective Seat Belt Lawsuits, Single Vehicle Accident Lawsuits, Deadly Defective Seatbelt Lawsuits, Defective Restraint Design Lawsuits, Fatal One Automobile Crash Lawsuits, and Catastrophic Injury & Deadly Defective Shoulder Strap Lawsuits (Texas Defective Restraint and Safety Belt Lawsuits)

For more information on defective seat belt lawsuits, failed seat back lawsuits, defective safety design lawsuits, defective safety belt webbing lawsuits, defective airbag lawsuits and other automobile defective crashworthiness lawsuits, feel free to follow the links in this post.  This post was written by Texas Defective Seat Belt Fatal Accident Lawyer, Jason Coomer, who works on Texas Defective Seatbelt Lawsuits involving serious injuries and fatal automobile collisions all over the State of Texas and throughout the United States.  In working on Texas Fatal Seatbelt Crash Law Suits, Jason Coomer commonly works with other Texas Fatal Defective Seat Belt Rollover Accident Lawyers throughout Texas and the United States including Houston Fatal Defective Safety Belt Collision Lawyers, Dallas Fatal Defective Seat Belt Rollover Lawyers, El Paso Defective Safety Restraint Fatal Accident Lawyers, and San Antonio Defective Safety Belt Design Serious Burn and Death Accident Lawyers.

Failed Hip Surgery Lawsuits and Failed Hip Implant Lawsuits by Texas Failed Hip Surgery Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Failed Hip Surgery Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, Defective Hip Implant Lawsuits, Implantable Hip Failure Lawsuits, and Failed Hip Surgery Resulting in Permanent Disability and Paralysis Lawsuits by Texas Failed Hip Surgery Product Liability, Medical Negligence, & Defective Product Lawyer, Jason Coomer 

Failed hip replacement surgery can cause severe pain, catastrophic injuries, physical impairment, and the need for additional hip replacement surgery.  Failed hip replacement surgery can be caused by medical negligence or defective hip implants including Zimmer Cups, Trident Hemispherical Cups, Trident PSL Cups, DePuy ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems, and Depuy ASR XL Acetabular Systems.  Regardless, as to whether the failed hip replacement surgery lawsuit is caused by  a defective cup or implant, and/or medical negligence a failed hip replacement lawsuit  can take significant resources to investigate and litigate.  When investigating these potential failed hip replacement surgery lawsuits, it is important to know what implant has been used as well as to obtain medical records of the surgery.

Hip Replacement Surgery including Total Joint Replacement Surgery, Total Hip Replacement Surgery, and Surgery

Hip replacement surgery, also called total hip arthroplasty, involves removing a diseased or broken hip joint and replacing it with an artificial joint, called a prosthesis. Hip prostheses commonly consist of a ball component, made of metal or ceramic, and a socket, which has an insert or liner made of plastic, ceramic or metal. The implants used in hip replacement are or should be biocompatible (meaning they're designed to be accepted by your body) and made to resist corrosion, degradation and wear. 

Hip replacement surgery is typically used for people with hip joint damage from arthritis or a serious injury.  Followed by rehabilitation, hip replacement surgery can relieve pain and restore range of motion and function of the hip joint.  However, it should be understood that Hip Replacement Surgery is an invasive and serious medical procedure that can be extremely hard on a person and will require significant time to recover.  It is important that a person seeking a hip replacement consult with one or more medical doctors that they trust to determine if they are healthy enough to undergo hip replacement surgery.  

As a total hip joint replacement replaces the ends of both bones in a damaged hip joint to create new joint surfaces and a total hip replacement surgery replaces the upper end of the thighbone (femur) with a metal ball and resurfaces the hip socket in the pelvic bone with a metal shell and plastic liner, it is essential that the hip implants are biocompatible and are correctly made to resist corrosion, degradation, and wear as well as to work well without rubbing. 

After a person has gone through an extensive hip surgery including the lengthy recovery and process, it can be very upsetting to learn that the manufacturer incorrectly made the implant so that it will have to removed and the person will have to undergo the hip replacement surgery again requiring more recovery, missed time from work, and missed time from family and normal functioning.

Defective Hip Implant Devices Lead to Failed Hip Replacement Surgery and Patients suffering Pain, Impairment, and Mental Anguish as well as having to have Second Hip Replacement Surgery to Repair the Problem

Failed hip implant surgery including defective hip implants have been becoming more and more common.   Some hip implant medical devices that have been the subject of failed hip surgery lawsuits, recalls, or FDA actions include the Zimmer Durom Cup, the Stryker Corp. Trident Hemispherical and Trident PSL cups, DePuy ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems, and Depuy ASR XL Acetabular Systems.  Through failed hip replacement lawsuits many patients are alleging that defective hip implants including defective Zimmer Cups, Trident Hemispherical and PSL Cups, or DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. ASR Hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular Systems have caused them pain, suffering, impairment, and the need for additional hip replacement surgeries.

The Zimmer Durom Cup has been implanted into over 12,000 people and is primarily used in Total Hip Replacement surgeries.  In July 2008 sales of the Zimmer Durom Cup were suspended by Zimmer, after reports that the cup was defective and failed to bond in many patients.  This failure to bond caused these patients to have to undergo painful revision hip surgeries.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has warned the Stryker Corporation about the Trident Hemispherical and Trident PSL cups that have "failed to function" as well as about hip implant components with "poor fixation"  These cup or failed implant have also required painful revision hip surgeries. The latest warning letter released by the FDA indicated that the Stryker Corporation received multiple complaints from 2005 through 2007 involving devices that failed to work and hip implant components that had bad fixation. Some hip implant failures have required that hip implant patients undergo a follow up surgery to fix the problem with the first hip implant surgery.  These problems in addition to the failure to function and poor fixation include the issue of terrible squeaking noises coming from the hip implant. 

In August, 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. announced that it would be recalling two hip replacement products, the ASR Hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular System, after receiving new data which indicated that more patients than expected experienced pain and other symptoms which required a revision surgery following the initial hip replacement procedure.  The patients with with DePuy ASR and ASR XL metal-on-metal hip implants have experienced loosening and dislocation of the device resulting in the need for early revision surgery and/or the release of metal debris causing muscle and soft tissue damage.

The FDA has warned manufacturers of hip implants that the recurrence of squeaking noises of hip implants with ceramic bearing components have resulted in revision surgeries due to implant failures (fractures, pain, wear particles, and fragments) and many patients have and are expected to experience problems including Hip Pain and may require additional hip implant surgery to repair the defective hip implant devices.

In reviewing a potential failed hip replacement surgery medical negligence lawsuits and failed hip replacement defective hip implant lawsuits, it is extremely helpful to know what type of hip implant was implanted into the patient, when the hip implant occurred, if a second hip replacement surgery was needed or will be needed, when the hip implant began to malfunction, and what problems the defective hip implant caused.  It is also helpful to be able to review the medical records of the surgery.  For more information on potential defective hip implant lawsuits or failed hip replacement surgery medical negligence lawsuits, feel free to e-mail Texas Failed Hip Implant Surgery Lawyer, Jason S. Coomer.

Regardless, as to whether the failed hip replacement surgery was caused by a defective Zimmer Cup, defective Trident Hemispherical Cup, defective Trident PSL Cup, defective DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. ASR Hip Resurfacing Systemt, defective DePuy ASR XL Acetabular System, and/or negligent surgeon, it is extremely frustrating to a person that has had a failed hip replacement surgery to learn that they are going to have to undergo a second hip replacement surgery because of a product defect, manufacturing defect, or negligence.

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For more information on failed hip replacement surgery lawsuits including a defective Zimmer Cup lawsuit, defective Trident Hemispherical Cup lawsuit, defective Trident PSL Cup Lawsuit, defective DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. ASR Hip Resurfacing System lawsuit, defective DePuy ASR XL Acetabular System lawsuit, and/or a medical negligence hip replacement lawsuit, feel free to follow the following links Failed Hip Surgery Lawsuits, Texas Fail Hip Replacement Lawsuits, and Defective Hip Implant Lawsuits or Depuy Failed Hip Implant Lawsuits & ASR Hip Resurfacing System Lawsuits.

Texas Single Vehicle Accident Lawsuits and Texas Deadly One Vehicle Crash Lawsuits

Texas Single Vehicle Accident Lawsuits, Texas One Car Crash Lawsuits, Texas Defective Tire Lawsuits, Texas Road Construction Defect Lawsuits, Texas Defective Airbag Lawsuits, Texas Defective Safety Belt Lawsuits, and other Texas Deadly One Vehicle Crash Lawsuits by Texas Serious Injury and Deadly One Vehicle Crash Lawyer, Jason Coomer

 

One car crashes, SUV rollover accidents, truck wrecks and other one vehicle automobile accidents can be caused by defective highway construction, defective tires that blowout, negligent vehicle maintenance, and other  vehicle defects.  Additionally, a non-injury low impact collision can be turned into a deadly crash or a serious injury crash when a vehicle has defective airbags, defective seat belts, or other defective vehicle crashworthiness safety problems.  Understanding the factors that have caused a single vehicle crash or injuries caused by the single vehicle crash, are key to investigating a single vehicle crash lawsuit.

After a car crash, truck wreck, SUV rollover, or other single vehicle accident that caused the driver or a passenger to suffer catastrophic injuries or deadly injuries, it is important that the single vehicle automobile accident is properly investigated to determine the cause of the accident and as to if defective crashworthiness of the vehicle may have played a roll in the death or the catastrophic injuries suffered in the accident. 

A key to investigating the single vehicle serious injury or deadly crash is to preserve the evidence of the wreck including the vehicle evidence and evidence from the scene of the accident.  As such, it is very important to make sure that the vehicle wreckage is secured and able to be investigated.  It is also important to have an investigator go to the accident scene after the crash.  It is usually best to have someone go to the accident site as soon as possible after the accident to take photos of any potential road construction hazards that may have caused the single vehicle accident and gather evidence.  However, as single vehicle accidents typically occur  unexpectedly it is often difficult to get an investigator to an accident scene within minutes of the single vehicle accident.

For more information on this topic feel free to go to the following web pages on Texas Defective Seat Belt Lawsuits, Texas Defective Air Bag Lawsuits, Texas Defective Crashworthiness Lawsuits, Texas One Car Crash Lawsuits and Single Vehicle Accident Lawsuits, and Truck, SUV, & Car Accident Investigation Center. 

Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits by Texas Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

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Medicare billing fraud is costing the United States an estimated one hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000.00) each year and with approximately 7,000 new people gaining Medicare benefits each day, it is predicted to continue to increase.  To combat Medicare Billing Fraud and Medicare Payment Fraud, the United States government has amended the Federal False Claims Act to encourage more Medicare Fraud whistleblowers to step up and blow the whistle on Medicare Fraud.  Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblowers and Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblowers that are the original source of specialized knowledge of Medicare Fraud can make substantial recoveries if they are the first to file a successful qui tam claim under the Federal False Claims Act.   

Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits, False Coding Lawsuits, Upcoding Lawsuits, and Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits

Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblowers and Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblowers that provide original source information of schemes to fraudulently bill for medical services or medical products and fraudulently take Medicare payments from our United States government including upcoding, double billing, bill padding, unbundling, and charging for services never provided may recover a portion of the proceeds recovered on the government's behalf.  Since 1986, relators have recovered over $1 billion for helping expose fraud against the United States government.    

To be a Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower or a Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblower, you need to have evidence of original source information of Medicare fraud.  Medical professionals, accountants, benefit coordinators, coding specialists, financial officers, hospital administrators, nurses, medical doctors, and health care administrators often become aware of Medicare Billing Fraud and Medicare Payment Fraud including upcoding, double billing, bill padding, unbundling, and charging for services never provided.

 Medicare Billing Fraud Crackdown Leads to Arrests of Health Care Executives

It is important to blow the whistle on known fraud and not get caught as one of the accomplices.  As the Department of Justice expands Medicare Billing Fraud Crackdowns, it becomes more important for those that are aware of Medicare Billing Fraud and Medicare Payment Fraud Schemes to come forward before the Medicare Fraud Rings are exposed and Health Care Executives start blaming each other and turning on each other to reduce their own potential criminal liability.

Medicare Fraud Strike Force Operations Lead to Charges Against 32 Doctors and Health Care Executives for More Than $16 Million in Alleged False Billing in Houston Early Morning Takedown Leads to Arrests in Houston, New York, Boston and Louisiana

WASHINGTON – Thirty-two people have been indicted for schemes to submit more than $16 million in false Medicare claims in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Houston, Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden and Deputy Secretary Bill Corr of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today. The Strike Force in Houston is the fourth phase of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care companies that fraudulently bill the Medicare program.

Remember Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblowers and Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblowers not only can avoid potential criminal liability if they expose Medicare Billing Fraud Schemes, but can get an economic incentive for exposing Medicare Billing Fraud, if they are an original source with special knowledge of fraud and are the first to file, they receive a portion of the money that the government recovers.  Depending on the extent of the fraud, qui tam recoveries for the government can be in the billions of dollars and whistleblower recoveries can be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

There are several keys to a successful False Claims Act Qui Tam Whistleblower action including 1) obtaining original and specialized information of the fraud, 2) being the first to file regarding the specific fraud, and 3) protecting the whistleblower for retaliation.  

Original and Specialized Information of Medicare Billing Fraud or Medicare Payment Fraud is Essential for a Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit or a Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit

As insiders it is common for a variety of health care professionals, health care executives, and health care administrators to have specialized knowledge of Medicare Billing Fraud or Medicare Payment Fraud.  As such, it is important for these health care administration whistleblowers and health care executive to obtain and preserve evidence of the Medicare fraud.  Whether this evidence is in e-mail messages, memos, accounting documents, coding instructions, recordings, or other documents, it is important for the whistleblower to have evidence of the Medicare fraud.  It is also often helpful to have fellow whistleblowers that can help build the Medicare Billing Fraud or Medicare Payment Fraud case. 

Being the First to File on the Medicare Billing Fraud Scheme is Essential for Recovery Under the False Claims Act and can Prevent Potential Criminal Liability

It is also essential to not delay in coming forward with a False Claim Act Qui Tam Action as the first whistleblower to file is eligible to be a relator and make a large recovery for exposing the fraud.  Additionally, when the fraudulent scheme is exposed, the people that kept the fraud secret can sometimes be found liable for criminal activity for not exposing the fraud that was being committed and further be held liable for continuing criminal activity.

Health Care Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Protection, Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblower Protection, and other Medicare Fraud False Claims Act Whistleblower Protections

It is also important to understand potential whistleblower protections under the False Claims Act and to discuss with an attorney how to prepare for potential retaliation or aggressive attacks by the employer or contractor.  For more information on this topic please go to the following web page on False Claims Act Lawsuit Whistleblower Protections.  

Medicare Payment Fraud Whistleblower Lawyers, Texas Medicare Payment Fraud Lawyers, Texas Medicare Billing Fraud Lawyers, and Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawyers

It is important for Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblowers including hospital administrators, nursing home administrators, medical equipment suppliers, health care executives, physical therapists, nurses, doctors, health care administrators, hospice workers, pharmacists, benefit coordinators, health system executives and other health care professionals to come forward and  blow the whistle on Medicare Billing Fraud.  If you are aware of a large health care company or individual that is defrauding the United States Government out of millions or billions of dollars, it is important to understand how the False Claims Act works and how to gather evidence of the Medicare Billing Fraud.  For more information on this topic, please go to the following web page on Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits and Medicare Payment Fraud Lawsuits by Texas Medicare Billing Fraud Lawyer, Jason S. Coomer.

 

Government Contractor Fraud Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuit Information (False Claims Act Whistleblower Qui Tam Action Information)

For more information on Medicare Billing Fraud, Tricare Billing Fraud, Medicaid Billing Fraud, Defense Contractor Fraud, Off Label Fraud, Road Construction Fraud, and other types of False Claims Act Whistleblower Claims, please go to the Qui Tam, Whistleblower, and Federal Federal False Claims Act Information Center.

Drug Representative Whistleblower Lawyer Marketing Executive & Sales Rep Whistleblower Lawsuits

Drug Representative Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuits, Pharmaceutical Representative False Claims Act Lawsuits, and Drug Representative False Claims Act Protections (Texas Drug Representative Whistleblower False Claims Act Lawyer Jason S. Coomer) 

Drug, pharmaceutical, and medical device representatives can often be the original source of specialized knowledge of Medicare marketing fraud that can result in a successful qui tam claim under the Federal False Claims Act.  A successful Medicare false claims act qui tam claim can not only result in a significant recovery for the drug representative whistleblower, pharmaceutical representative whistleblower, or medical device representative whistleblower, but can result in uncovering Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud, Tricare fraud, and/or VA fraud that could result in millions or billions of dollars being recovered or saved by taxpayers. 

Pharmaceutical Representative Whistleblower Lawsuits, Medical Device Representative Whistleblower Lawsuits, Drug Marketing Executive Whistleblower Lawsuits, and Medicare Marketing Fraud Lawsuits

Pharmaceutical representative whistleblowers, medical device sales representative whistleblowers, and drug marketing executive whistleblowers are stepping up and exposing Medicare marketing fraud that is costing taxpayers billions.  The economic incentive for these pharmaceutical representative whistleblowers, medical device sale representative whistleblowers, and drug marketing executive whistleblowers is that if they are an original source with special knowledge of fraud and are the first to file, they receive a portion of the money that the government recovers.  Depending on the extent of the fraud, qui tam recoveries for the government can be in the billions of dollars and whistleblower recoveries can be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

There are several keys to a successful False Claims Act Qui Tam Whistleblower action including 1) obtaining original and specialized information of the fraud, 2) being the first to file regarding the specific fraud, and 3) protecting the whistleblower from retaliation.  

Original and Specialized Information of Fraud is Essential for Pharmaceutical Representative Whistleblower Lawsuits, Medical Device Sales Representative Whistleblower Lawsuits, Drug Marketing Whistleblower Lawsuits, and Medicare Marketing Fraud Lawsuits

As insiders, it is common for pharmaceutical representative whistleblowers, medical device sales representative whistleblowers, drug marketing representative whistleblowers, and other marketing executives to have specialized knowledge of marketing fraud and fraudulent marketing schemes.  As such, it is important for the pharmaceutical representative whistleblower, medical device sales representative whistleblower, drug marketing representative whistleblower, or other marketing executive whistleblower to obtain and preserve evidence of the marketing fraud.  Whether this evidence is in e-mail messages, memos, marketing plans, marketing materials, recordings, or other documents, it is important for the whistleblower to have evidence of the marketing fraud to present.  It is also often helpful to have fellow whistleblowers that can help build the Medicare Fraud or Off-Label Marketing Fraud case. 

Being the First to File on the Fraud is Essential for Recovery Under the False Claims Act and can Prevent Potential Criminal Liability in Pharmaceutical Representative Medicare Fraud, Medical Device Sales Representative Medicare Fraud, Drug Marketing Medicare Fraud, and other Medicare Marketing Fraud Lawsuits

It is also essential to not delay in coming forward with a False Claim Act Qui Tam Action as the first whistleblower to file is eligible to be a relator and make a large recovery for exposing the fraud.  Additionally, when the fraudulent scheme is exposed, the people that kept the fraud secret can sometimes be found liable for criminal activity for not exposing the fraud that was being committed and further be held liable for continuing criminal activity.

Pharmaceutical Representative Whistleblower Protection, Medical Device Sales Representative Whistleblower Protection, Drug Marketing Whistleblower Protection, and Medicare Marketing Fraud False Claims Act Whistleblower Protections

It is also important to understand potential whistleblower protections under the False Claims Act and to discuss with an attorney how to prepare for potential retaliation or aggressive attacks by the employer or contractor.  For more information on this topic please go to the following web page on False Claims Act Lawsuit Whistleblower Protections.  

Drug Representative Off Label Drug Marketing Medicare Fraud Lawyer, Pharmaceutical Representative Medicare Marketing Fraud Lawyer, and Pharmaceutical Representative Whistleblower Qui Tam Lawyer (Off Label Marketing and Pharmaceutical Whistleblower False Claims Act Law Suits)

Through Medicare Marketing Fraud Whistle Blower Lawsuits, Off Label Medicare Marketing Fraud Qui Tam Lawsuits, and other Medicare Health Care Fraud Lawsuits, hundreds of billions of dollars have been recovered from dishonest pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, health insurance companies, health providers, individuals and organizations that have committed Medicare health care fraud and stolen large amounts of money from the government.

It is extremely important that pharmaceutical representative whistleblowers, medical device sales representative whistleblowers, and marketing executive whistleblowers continue to expose fraudulent marketing practices, billing practices, and unnecessary treatments that cost hundreds of billions of dollars.   A Medicare Marketing Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer can greatly assist the potential whistleblower by  helping avoid potential pitfalls in incorrectly reporting the fraud as well as helping prepare the evidence and the whistleblower for what is needed in a Medicare Pharmaceutical False Claims Act Lawsuit, Pharmaceutical Medicare Marketing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit, Medicare Medical Product Marketing Fraud Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuit, or other Medicare Health Care Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit. 

For more information on pharmaceutical representative whistleblower lawsuits, medical device sales representative whistleblower lawsuits, and drug marketing executive whistleblower lawsuits, please feel free to go to the following webpage Drug Representative Whistleblower Lawyer Marketing Executive & Sales Rep Whistleblower Lawsuits.