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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Expose Medicare Fraud: Medical Professionals Can Earn Large Rewards By Exposing Medicare Fraud by Medicare Fraud Lawyer Jason Coomer

Expose Medicare Fraud: Medical Professionals Can Earn Large Financial Rewards and Prevent Potential Criminal Liability By Properly Exposing Medicare Fraud by Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Reward Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Medical professionals including physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, compliance professionals, Medicare coders, and Medicare reimbursement managers can earn large financial rewards for properly exposing systematic billing fraud.  By coming forward and reporting
Medicare fraud, these Medicare fraud whistleblowers can receive large financial rewards for being the first to file on Medicare billing fraud scams and can also avoid potential criminal liability for not reporting Medicare billing fraud.

For more information on exposing Medicare fraud, preventing potential criminal liability for Medicare fraud, and earning Medicare fraud whistleblower rewards, please go to the following web page: Expose Medicare Fraud and Earn Large Financial Rewards: Medical Providers Are Needed To Expose Medicare Fraud Schemes.

The United States Department of Justice Has Charged Over 2,900 Defendants for Medicare Fraud and Has Collected Over $26.9 Billion Since 2009 Through The Federal False Claims Act

The United States Department of Justice and several states are working hard to identify Medicare fraud schemes and Medicaid fraud schemes.  Not only are they offering large financial rewards to medicare professionals for exposing large systematic fraud schemes, but they have created a strike force to identify medical professionals who are committing Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud or who are not reporting fraud.

National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges against 301 Individuals for Approximately $900 Million in False Billing | OPA | Department of Justice

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301 individuals, including 61 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving approximately $900 million in false billings. 

Twenty-three state Medicaid Fraud Control Units also participated in today’s arrests.  In addition, the HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is suspending payment to a number of providers using its suspension authority provided in the Affordable Care Act. This coordinated takedown is the largest in history, both in terms of the number of defendants charged and loss amount.

The Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations are part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), a joint initiative announced in May 2009 between the Department of Justice and HHS to focus their efforts to prevent and deter fraud and enforce
current anti-fraud laws around the country.  The Medicare Fraud Strike Force operates in nine locations and since its inception in March 2007 has charged over 2,900 defendants who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for over $8.9 billion

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Texas Defective Airbag Lawyer Handles Fatal Accidents and Catastrophic Injury Accidents Caused By Defective Airbags by Texas Defective Airbag Lawyer

Texas Defective Airbag Lawyer Handles Fatal Accidents and Catastrophic Injury Accidents Caused By Defective Airbags by Texas Defective Airbag Lawyer Jason Coomer

Defective airbags can cause catastrophic injuries or death.  Recently, it has been discovered that millions of vehicles made by 14 different vehicle manufacturers have faulty airbags that might fail to protect passengers and drivers, but might also cause accidents, injury, or death.  Millions of vehicles are currently under recalls, but many of these vehicles have already been involved in accidents or are still being driven despite having potentially dangerous airbags.  For more information on this topic and a list of recalled vehicles, please go to the following web page: Defective Airbag Accident Death Lawyer Handles Fatal Accidents Caused By Defective Airbags.

Automobile Airbags Should be Designed to Protect Vehicle Drivers and Passengers in Automobile Crashes, Collisions, Wrecks and other Accidents

An airbag is a vehicle safety device that is used to protect drivers and passengers in automobiles. Airbags are designed to be an occupant restraint that consists of a flexible envelope which has been designed to inflate rapidly in an automobile collision and to prevent vehicle occupants from striking interior objects such as the steering wheel or window.  Rapid and effective deployment of an airbag safety system can not only reduce injuries in a high impact vehicle collision, but can save lives.  Properly functioning and designed airbag systems are important for safe travel including protecting drivers, adult passengers, and children.

However, some defective airbags can inflate too rapidly and actually cause metal shrapnel to be sprayed throughout the passenger cabin of a 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 Lawsuits may arise out of serious automobile crashes and fatal collisions where a defective air bag was the cause of death or a catastrophic injury through an improper deployment or a failure to deploy.  An air bag injury may result when an air bag deploys at low impact or no impact causing a car wreck or vehicle crash or a serious injury to the driver or passenger. 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 of automobile accident crashworthiness, please go to the following web page: Automobile Defect and Crashworthiness Information and Investigation Center.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer Represents Financial Professionals Who Want to Confidentially Expose Fraud and Collect Large Financial Rewards by Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer

Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer Represents Financial Professionals, Business Executives and High End Investors Who Want to Confidentially Expose Fraud and Collect Large Financial Rewards by Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer

Insider Trading Whistleblowers including financial professionals, business executives, and high end investors can earn large financial rewards by anonymously exposing insider trading through a SEC Bounty Action lawyer.  For more information on this topic, please go to the following web page: Expose Insider Trading: The SEC Is Offering Large Financial Bounties To Financial Professionals That Anonymously Expose Illegal Insider Trading.

Confidential Reviews of Insider Trade Bounty Actions Can Protect Financial Professionals That Want To Protect Their Identity
 
For many financial professionals, business executives, and high end investors, it can be a difficult decision to step forward to expose insider trading as well as other forms of securities fraud.  To protect these professionals, confidentiality safeguards have been put in place that allow the financial professional whistleblower to anonymously blow the whistle on securities fraud through an attorney.  By contacting a Confidential Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer, the financial professional can protect their identity and career while exposing insider trading and collecting large whistleblower rewards.  By contacting a SEC Bounty Action whistleblower reward lawyer, the whistleblower can also have their case reviewed to determine the strength of the case, to evaluate potential Bounty rewards, and identify any case specific legal issues such as obtaining evidence, exposing potential confidential information, and complying with whistleblower reward rules to avoid potential disqualification.

SEC Bounty Action Whistleblowers Can Receive Large Financial Rewards for Properly Exposing Large Scale Securities Fraud

Through SEC Whistleblower Bounty Actions the SEC will award between ten percent and thirty percent of the money collected to a qualified whistleblower who voluntarily provides the SEC with original information about a violation of the securities laws that leads to a successful enforcement of an action brought by the SEC that results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1,000,000.00. 

To qualify the whistleblower must base their claims on "original information".  Any person (not just an employee or insider) may file a SEC financial fraud bounty claim.  Further, if the financial fraud whistleblower is represented by an attorney, the whistleblower may file the financial fraud bounty claim anonymously.  However, before the financial fraud bounty award is paid, the whistleblower's identity shall be revealed to the SEC and SEC shall be provided information about the whistleblower that it requests.

For more information on SEC Bounty Actions, please go to the following web page: SEC Bounty Action Lawyer and CFTC Bounty Action Lawyer.

Friday, June 17, 2016

China Whistleblower Lawyer Quoted in China's New Breed of Whistleblowers Takes on Big Business | Reuters

China Whistleblower Lawyer Quoted in China's New Breed of Whistleblowers Takes on Big Business | Reuters

Since this article has been published attorney, Jason Coomer, and his co-counsel have received about 25 new whistleblower reports from China and are currently taking eight cases forward to the SEC.  Many of these cases are being filed anonymously to protect the identity of the whistleblower including medical professionals, pharmaceutical professionals, and other international business professionals.  His firm and his co-counsel are still accepting and investigating new China Whistleblower Reward Cases.  For more information please feel free to go to the following web pages: Chinese Doctors Are Being Offered Large Rewards For Exposing Pharmaceutical Company Illegal Bribery Schemes, China Import Export Bribery Schemes and Whistleblower Rewards, and International Bounty Action Laws Offer Financial Rewards to Chinese Whistleblowers for Exposing Bribery Schemes.

 China's New Breed of Whistleblowers Takes on Big Business | Reuters

"Jason Coomer, who heads a small practice in Austin, Texas, has a Chinese language website offering assistance to whistleblowers. His office has received around 25 whistleblower reports from China in the last two years and is now taking two cases forward tothe SEC."

"We're talking large multinational corporations with multi-billion dollar contracts each year. The whistleblowers are insiders at the corporations and have witnessed elaborate bribery schemes," he told Reuters in on telephone interview from Texas. He declined to give further details about the
cases.

China's new breed of whistleblowers takes on big business | Reuters

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Cuban Whistleblowers and International Professionals Can Earn Large Financial Rewards For Properly and Confidentially Exposing Illegal Bribes by Cuba Whistleblower Reward Lawyer

Cuban Whistleblowers and International Professionals With Original Knowledge of Illegal Bribes Can Earn Large Rewards For Properly and Confidentially Exposing Illegal Bribes Paid To Government Officials by Cuba Whistleblower Reward Lawyer and International Bribe Whistleblower Reward Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

The recent lifting of the United States' embargo on Cuba has and is creating an immense opportunity for large multinational corporations to conduct business in Cuba.  This opportunity will create increased competition between businesses for hotel construction contracts, pharmacy contract, public works contracts, procurement contracts, and other lucrative business contracts.  Unfortunately, some multinational corporations will attempt to bribe Cuban government officials in an attempt to obtain some of these lucrative Cuban contracts.  These illegal bribes are against Cuban law as well as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and be the basis for large financial rewards for Cuban whistleblowers, international professionals, or other individuals who have original first hand knowledge and/or evidence of the bribes.  Under new laws, these whistleblowers can confidentially expose these illegal actions through a lawyer and if filed properly can receive large financial rewards.  For more information on this topic, please read below or click on the following link: Cuba Whistleblower Reward Lawyer.

The SEC Can Award Large Financial Rewards to Whistleblowers Who Properly Expose Significant Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations and SEC Violations
  
Multinational corporations that are registered with the SEC and pay illegal kickbacks and bribes to government officials and former government officials in exchange for contracts including large building projects can be brought to justice and made to pay large penalties under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  Moreover, whistleblowers that properly expose these bribes and help bring these corporations to justice may be able to collect large economic rewards under the  Securities Exchange Act (SEC Whistleblower Bounty Actions) and the Commodity Exchange Act (CFTC Whisteblower Bounty Actions).

The whistleblower may be entitled to not only the amount of the illegal bribe or kickback, but the benefit of the illegal bribe or kickback.  In cases where $100,000.00 bribe is made to obtain a $100 million building project, the whistleblower may be entitled to 10 to 30% of the $100,000,000.00 and the $100,000.00 translating into an over $10 million to $30 million award.  The laws are set up so that the first person to properly file and expose the illegal bribery scheme is the person that can collect the reward.  For this reason whistleblowers with original information regarding a large bribery scheme are encouraged to move forward in exposing the illegal action.


To obtain a reward the bribe and the benefit of the bribe must be over $1,000,000.00 and the whistleblower must have original information of the illegal actions which helps the SEC.  For more information, please go to the following web site: International Whistleblower Rewards, Exposing International Bribery Schemes, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.