Whistleblowers Lose Bid to Reinstate Crop Insurance Damages Win

Whistleblowers Kenneth Kraemer and Kraemer Farms LLC lost their bid to revive a $1 million damages win for unjust enrichment in a False Claims Act suit.

A federal district court was right that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the whisteblowers’ unjust enrichment case under the FCA, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said Wednesday.

After initially finding for Kraemer, the district court correctly held in October that a whistleblower in a qui tam action like an FCA suit doesn’t have standing to assert common law claims based on an injury to the US government, Judge James B. ...