Sentences with phrase «cent of the amounts recovered»

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Moreover, while costs awards are intended to make a successful litigant whole, costs in the Federal Court are determined in accordance with the Federal Courts Rules, which prescribe fixed dollar amounts for various steps in the litigation process regardless of the actual costs incurred: Litigants can only expect to recover approximately 25 per cent of their actual legal costs in complex cases.

The government recovered $ 38.9 billion under the False Claims Act between 1987 and 2013 and of this amount, $ 27.2 billion or 70 per cent was from qui tam cases brought by relators.