The largest False Claims Act recovery in Montana history. Representing a whistleblower CFO for a large Montana medical facility, Paul Odegaard acted co-counsel with lead counsel, Bryan Vroon, an Atlanta-based attorney, to bring sweeping complaints of wrongdoing to investigators with the Offices of Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Justice, which launched a two-year investigation. The six-count lawsuit, filed in United States District Court, District of Montana, centered on alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, a criminal law prohibiting financial arrangements between doctors and hospitals or other health-care providers or companies, and the civil Stark statute, a federal physician self-referral law designed to prevent financial incentives for physicians to steer patients to particular providers from whom they stand to reap benefits. The settlement agreement included a payment to the Federal government and State of Montana in the combined amount of $24 million.
Case Results Meet the TeamMotor Vehicle Accident Wrongful Death
The firm's client was killed in a head-on collision on the highway when a vehicle traveling in the other direction swerved left to avoid slow moving traffic. The insurers for both of the other driver...
Workers Compensation Personal Injury
Client injured in a motor vehicle accident in the course and scope of her employment, which resulted in a workers' compensation claim and claim against the third party at-fault driver. ...
Motor Vehicle Accident Personal Injury
5 year old boy is struck in a commercial business parking lot by uninsured driver. Policy limits paid through multiple policies. ...
Workers Compensation Motor Vehicle Accident
Our client injured his low back in a motor vehicle accident while driving a semi for his employer. Despite the fact that he did not seek medical treatment for his back for almost a month, and he had o...
Personal Injury Workers Compensation
The Firm represented a Client and his family of five who had all been exposed to toxic mold in employer provided housing. The employer offered $5,000 to the client for moving expenses contingent upon ...