Sentences with phrase «filing false claims»

The proposed reforms address many of the problems CPS workers face in doing their jobs and stiffen penalties for those who abuse children or abuse the CPS reporting system by filing false claims against individuals.

The NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board is sick of people lying about police misconduct — and wants to make complainants sign a document warning them that they could be hit with perjury charges for filing false claims.

A longtime Albany insurance broker has pleaded guilty to bilking investors of his cheese company out of more than $ 1 million, while his wife admitted to filing a false claim after their son's suicide last spring.

«When individuals file false claims for unemployment benefits it harms those who are in real need of assistance and my office is committed to holding individuals accountable when they cheat the system.»

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are conducting a sweeping investigation of environmental health and safety conditions, including cases of elevated blood lead levels, in public housing and homeless shelters and the possibility that the New York City housing and homeless agencies filed false claims to federal housing officials for payment related to the conditions.

However, these Dog Haters are usually exempt from laws which would hold them accountable for teasing dogs to make them bark, and they are often scot - free if they file false claims about barking dogs.

Represented a home nursing service in an action brought by a former home health aide seeking damages for injuries allegedly sustained when a patient for whom the home health aide was caring, propositioned him for oral sex and when the aide refused filed a false claim with the police that the aide had sexually abused him.

However, filing a false claim or concealing information to obtain a benefit under an insurance policy is considered fraud in many states and subject to criminal or civil penalties.

This makes it difficult for cheaters to file a false claim if they have to deal with the facts of an officer's report.

Progressive Corporation believes that with the country's current weak economic prospects, some policyholders might take advantage of their auto insurance policies and file false claims for injuries or damages sustained during... (more) November 23, 2009

Ensured proper prosecution for clients that filed false claim cases regarding motor vehicles, jewelery theft and money laundering

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Unilever, for example, filed a suit against Hampton Creek last year claiming false advertising and unfair competition because Hampton Creek's Just Mayo doesn't contain eggs — a requirement under the current standard of identity for mayonnaise.

Yelp hasn't commented on the third lawsuit, but in a blog post March 4 headlined «Different Day, Different Lawyer, Same Meritless Claim: A Classic Race to the Courthouse,» the company's co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman called the two suits filed so far «frivolous» and said the allegations «are false and easily refuted.»

Cohen used a pair of court filings late Wednesday to end the lawsuits he filed in January, which claimed the dossier contained a series of false assertions about him.

Fan Yuan, the shareholder who filed the suit, accuses Facebook of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about the company's handling of user data — meaning the instances where Facebook or Zuckerberg himself addressed privacy and security issues and failed to disclose the ongoing Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

Planned Parenthood clinic director Sue Thayer filed the lawsuit against the abortion giant's Iowa affiliate accusing it of submitting «repeated false, fraudulent, and / or ineligible claims for reimbursements» to Medicaid...

filed at least 87,075 false, fraudulent, or ineligible claims with the Texas Women's Health Program.

Erica Kinsman, of Zephyrhills, Florida, filed the suit, claiming sexual battery, assault, false... more

He also dismissed claims that the Senate's stipend certifications could be subject to criminal charges, specifically filing a false instrument.

Schneiderman has tussled in court with Trump before, having led a class - cation lawsuit filed over false advertising claims made against Trump University.

The family of a 12 - year - old Muslim middle school student has filed a $ 25 million federal lawsuit against the East Islip school district, claiming the seventh - grader's civil rights were violated when school officials forced him to sign a false confession saying he was a terrorist.

The FTC has filed lawsuits against the makers of Cortislim and Cortistress, charging them with making false and unsubstantiated claims that their products can cause weight loss.

Woman charged with filing false harassment claims against man she met on dating site for people with disabilities — What started out as a meeting through a dating website specifically for people...

Facebook filed suit against them in 2011, claiming that the name creates a false suggestion of an affiliation with Facebook.

In July, K12 agreed to a $ 168.5 million settlement after California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit alleging that its operation of 14 public virtual schools in the state violated false claims, false advertising and unfair competition laws.

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Tax identity fraud takes place when a criminal files a false tax return using a stolen Social Security number in order to fraudulently claim the refund.

This means that insurers think that people with credit scores are more likely to file false accident claims as opposed to people who have a good record with personal debts.

Giving false or exaggerated information when filing a claim in an attempt to collect policy benefits that would otherwise not be paid.

The FHA began developing a loan defect taxonomy several years ago in response to the False Claims Act litigation the Justice Department filed against FHA lenders, which resulted in large fines and prompted many banks to exit the FHA single - family mortgage program.

This past May, a year after Purina filed a false advertising lawsuit against Blue Buffalo, the Wilton, Conn. - based pet food manufacturer admitted in court that a «substantial» and «material» portion of Blue Buffalo pet food sold to consumers contained poultry by - product meal, despite advertising claims to the contrary.

In September 2011, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) filed a class action lawsuit against Barkworks, a southern California pet store chain, «claiming the stores repeatedly engage in fraud and false advertising in an effort to conceal from customers that they source their puppies from abusive «puppy mills» — large - scale commercial dog breeding facilities.

«SK simply wants to defer any consideration of the sufficiency of its pleading so it can oppress Epic with burdensome and expensive discovery,» the UE3 vendor states in its latest court filing, recounted in depth on Next - Gen, adding that SK's claims that Epic lied about its engines are built on «false statement of material fact» points out Gamasutra.

This has been disputed to be false by early reports, though there are others claiming that they did get their save file canceled.

Following formal complaints I filed with the American Bar Association and the Law Society of British Columbia, he finally deleted his claim of membership in the American Bar Association from his LinkedIn profile — but replaced it with the equally false claim of membership in the New York County Lawyers Association.

It turns out that during the time frame that Kieffer claimed he attended law school, he was actually doing time for grand theft and filing false tax returns.

Answer: Some of your fellow non-believers have filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the television and radio advertisements for «YBCR» claims are false and misleading, so maybe you should check that out.

Allows private parties to file lawsuits on behalf of the state alleging that a person knowingly presented a false claim and deceived the state for the purpse of getting a false claim paid.

U.S. Swimmier Ryan Lochte has been indicted in Brazil on a charge of filing a false police report in connection with his claims of being an armed robbery victim.

The 14 - page statement of claim filed Aug. 17 indicates that on Aug. 1 Horgan made comments in the form of false allegations to various media outlets including CBC Radio, that there was no written work produced to back up the $ 550,000 Wilson was paid while in the LNG role.

These are filed under the False Claims Act and under similar state whistleblower laws.

Filed by Erik Shapiro on behalf of all others similarly situated against T - Mobile USA Inc., the lawsuit claims violation of the False Advertising Law, Unfair Competition Law and other counts.

Among its findings is an explosion of abusive M&A litigation with multiple extortionate lawsuits filed within days of any major corporate announcement, a near doubling of False Claim Act qui tam litigation over just four years, and a questionable surge of lawsuits claiming that asbestos exposure resulted in workers developing lung cancer.

Updated: An Ohio man who survived a severe car crash as a boy in 2004 has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was financially exploited and his privacy invaded by a book's false claim that he visited heaven.

The most recent article includes cases where lawyers were sanctioned for appealing a case based on a knowingly false claim, the dismissal of an appeal for failing to file a brief (after two extensions of time), and a decision in which the appellate court found the controlling contract provision itself, after both sides had been arguing the wrong provision since the trial began.

If your client is one for excuses and false promises (or even worse, files for bankruptcy), your only option may seem to be to file suit to make sure you have a claim to your hard - earned fees.

The Office of the Trustee, the part of the Department of Justice that oversees bankruptcy filings in the US, has promised to take steps to stop illegal practices of mortgage servicers, including the filing of false or inaccurate claims, the charging of unnecessary fees and the failure to acknowledge discharged debts.

In addition, according to his federal court file, he bribed Brazilian immigration officials and instructed his customers how to make false asylum claims once they arrived in the [United States].52

«Workers also reported... use of intimidation and threats to prevent workers from filing a Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) claim, and use of delay tactics and false records to deny workers access to the full WSIB entitlement.

As noted above, while in Brazil, «according to his federal court file, he bribed Brazilian immigration officials and instructed his customers how to make false asylum claims once they arrived in the» United States; among his customers were «supporters or members of Al Shabab or associated Somali terror groups.