by Brian Mahany Virtually all of our whistleblower stories relate to the federal False Claims Act. President Lincoln proposed the law during the Civil War as a way of helping the government recover millions of dollars lost to fraud. Bad rations, soggy ammunition and lame mules were just some of the ways private vendors ripped […]
Company's Attempt To Force Arbitration of Whistleblowers Claims Shot Down
by Brian Mahany Arbitration clauses are where many of the big legal battles are being waged these days. Employers and businesses want to force workers to arbitrate their claims. While there are sometimes advantages to arbitration, in many cases the arbitration clauses are biased against workers. We don’t automatically disfavor arbitration, however it has to […]