Case: Individual Employment Rights/False Claims Act (C.D. Ill.)

Generations at Riverview, LLC is entitled to summary judgment on the False Claims Act and Illinois False Claims Act retaliation claims of a former business office manager for a facility it took over from HCR ManorCare, a federal court in Illinois ruled. The manager refused to temporarily use ManorCare’s National Provider ID Number to record information into an electronic database used to report residents’ admissions and discharges, because she believed that it was illegal. No jury could find that her refusal to temporarily use ManorCare’s NPIN was objectively reasonable, the court said, because she knew there were state deadlines for ...