Diana Brady, Author at Brady & Associates

Supreme Court To Hear Important Amazon Wage Theft Case

March 21st, 2014

An important case regarding unpaid time that workers spend going in and out of security while going to jobs at Amazon warehouses has been picked up by the U.S. Supreme Court. The case was last heard in the Ninth Circuit where the justices came down o… Read More

Fight Against Financial Fraud Needs Funding

March 20th, 2014

A recent piece in the Boston Globe discussed the serious problem of government fraud and noted that lawmakers on the national level need to do more than just give the problem lip service. Rather than simply talk about the importance of reducing fraud… Read More

Categories: False Claims Act, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam

Overtime Pay Poised For Expansion

March 14th, 2014

In another indication that the Obama administration is unwilling to be stymied by Congressional Republicans, President Obama announced recently that he would ask the Department of Labor to issue new rules regarding overtime pay. The goal of the new m… Read More

IRS Whistleblower Program In Need Of Overhaul

March 6th, 2014

The New York Times recently took the IRS to task for the way it is operating its whistleblower program. The article interviewed a half-dozen people who had acted as whistleblowers, bringing forward information about tax cheats. Rather than have the p… Read More

Health Care Fraud Becomes Big Business And Receives Attention From Prosecutors

February 13th, 2014

Bad news for those who intend to defraud the government of millions of dollars for health care related expenditures. According to the Department of Justice and the Wall Street Journal, prosecutors have filed a record number of health care fraud cases… Read More

Warehouse Workers Win Millions In Labor Law Settlement

February 6th, 2014

A contractor for Wal-Mart recently agreed to fork over nearly $5 million to help settle a lawsuit that was filed by 568 warehouse workers in Southern California. The case claimed that the workers were underpaid and routinely prevented from taking req… Read More

Banks Treat Litigation Expenses As Closely Guarded Secrets

January 30th, 2014

Anyone who pays any sort of attention to the financial industry recently has seen headlines regarding an array of lawsuits brought by consumers, shareholders and even government officials regarding the banks’ mortgage practices prior to the rec… Read More

DOJ Joins Lawsuit Against One Of The Nation's Largest Hospital Operators

January 16th, 2014

One of the country’s largest hospital operators now faces a major lawsuit claiming the company defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars by engaging in Medicare and Medicaid fraud over a period of years. The qui tam action brought… Read More

Supreme Court Wades Into Retaliation Cases

January 2nd, 2014

An especially confusing area of labor law concerns cases based on retaliatory action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These cases exist when an employee believes that illegal and retributive action was taken by an employer after the e… Read More

New Study Demonstrates Enormous Value Of Healthcare Whistleblowers

December 6th, 2013

A recent study conducted by the group, Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, found that whistleblowers in the healthcare industry have proved exceptionally valuable for the government and for the country. The study discovered that healthcare whistl… Read More