JD Supra1d
False Claim Act Liability Under Anti-Kickback Statute Requires But-For Causation: First Circuit Narrows Liability in Growing Circuit Split
On February 18, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in U.S. v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, ruling ...
The National Law Review1d
Anti-Kickback Statute Premised False Claims Cases: The “But For” Causation Standard Finds Support from First Circuit
It’s now 3–1, with the First Circuit (2025) aligning with the Sixth (2023) and Eighth (2022) Circuits finding the meaning of ...
JD Supra12h
First Circuit Adopts “But-For” Causation Standard for Proving Kickback FCA Violations
In a closely watched appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on February 18 that to satisfy the causation requirement in ...
MCMC records statements from eight over alleged false, offensive content
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has recorded statements from eight individuals for allegedly ...
Canadian HR Reporter2d
How to handle a whistleblower making false allegations
While organizations must investigate complaints and maintain whistleblower policies, the decision involving Jazz Aviation underscores that they are not obligated to tolerate false accusations that ...
Tempted by the False God of Convenience
But if these tools are used to take from us our basic modes of expression and relationship, if the great false god of ...
The Washington Post22d
RFK Jr. confirmation could hinge on his embrace of false vaccine-autism link
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading proponent of the false assertion that vaccines cause autism, would not acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that dispels that theory when he faced senators during ...
Australia to shoot scores of stranded false killer whales
Australian wildlife rangers are to euthanise 90 dolphins stuck on a remote beach by shooting them, after attempts to refloat ...
The Independent29d
12 dead after false fire rumours cause passengers to leap from train
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The Walrus1d
Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. But the Lie That They Do Is Still Going Strong
In 1998, Wakefield was the lead author on a paper, published in the respected medical journal The Lancet, that claimed there ...