A proposed rule to drastically increase whistleblower rewards paid for information leading to successful Medicare fraud actions to as high as nearly $10 million was proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services this week.

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A federal trial in Milwaukee has several paper companies arguing over which firms are responsible for cleaning up the Fox River contaminated decades ago by discharges from the papermaking process.

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2010AP2820 Hoerig v. Hoerig, et al.

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Family Waste Kachi Yang appeals the order supplementing the trial court’s judgment of divorce granted earlier to Kachi and her former husband, Dao Yang. Kachi argues the trial court erred in determining that Dao did not commit waste when he ...

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A civil environmental enforcement action against Karl Excavating Inc., Manitowoc, arising from solid waste violations has been resolved, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Monday. During a May 2010 inspection, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources found about 10 ...

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