Pandemic Fraud Fueled Record Year for False Claims Act Lawsuits

The Justice Department obtained the highest number of False Claims Act settlements and judgments in history by targeting pandemic-related fraud and using the work of whistleblowers, according to several attorneys.

The “frightening truth” is that the No. 1 source of FCA settlements and judgments was fraud in the health-care industry, said Susan M. Coler, who represents whistleblowers with Halunen Law.

This is “an area of our lives where certainty and trust are paramount, but fraud is ubiquitous,” she said.

The DOJ announced Thursday that the US government and whistleblowers were party to 543 FCA settlements and judgments this past year—the ...