Halifax Health Stops Bid to Revive Manager’s Retaliation Suit

Halifax Health Inc. defeated a former operations manager’s attempt to reinstate a lawsuit asserting that she was fired in retaliation for calling attention to alleged government fraud in violation of the False Claims Act.

A Florida district court properly granted Halifax summary judgment because the worker couldn’t demonstrate that the decision to fire her wasn’t pretextual, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday in a nonprecedential unsignedopinion.

Halifax asserted a legitimate business reason for firing Holly Ruffolo, which was its belief that she used her connection with the company and the company’s vendor to order N-95 ...