Sentences with phrase «claims on behalf of the federal government»
The direct policy program has been supplemented since 1983 with a private / public cooperative arrangement, known as «Write Your Own,» through which a pool of insurance companies issue policies and adjust flood claims on behalf of the federal government under their own names, charging the same premium as the direct program.
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Armstrong's former teammate, Floyd Landis, originally brought the lawsuit in 2010 under a federal law, the False Claims Act, that lets whistle - blowers pursue fraud cases on behalf of the government, and obtain rewards if successful.
The Niger Delta Avengers has refuted the claim that it nominated Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; a former Abia State governor, Mr. Orji Kalu and five others to negotiate with the federal government on behalf of the group.
A qui tam claim is one form of a whistleblower case where a lawsuit is filed by a private citizen on behalf of the state or federal government against a person or business that is allegedly defrauding an arm of the state or federal government.
The False Claims Act's «qui tam» provision lets US citizens sue on behalf of the federal government while entitling them to a percentage of what is recovered.