Rule would boost Medicare whistleblower bounty to $10M
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.
Trial to decide who’s responsible for costly cleanup of Fox River?
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.
2008AP2527 In re the marriage of: Yang v. Yang
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 sold a half interest in twenty acres of farmland for $50,000 or when he withdrew […]
Karl Excavating settles waste violations
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 dump-truck sized loads of demolition material and bottom ash improperly stored at the business, according [&hel[...]
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