U.S. EX REL. RAHMAN v. ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES, P.C.

Civ. Nos. H-95-2241, H-00-1216, H-01-2676, H-01-3014. Bankruptcy Nos. 00-1-1147-PM, 00-20825-PM to 00-20827-PM. Adversary Nos. 00-1180, 00-1430.

269 B.R. 139 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Syed RAHMAN, Plaintiff, v. ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES, P.C., et al., Defendants. In re Equimed, Inc., Debtor. Merrill Cohen, Trustee, Plaintiff, v. Douglas Colkitt, M.D., et al., Defendants. In re Nixon Equipment Corporation, et al., Debtors. In re Equimed, Inc., Debtor. Equimed, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Steadfast Insurance Company and Reliance Insurance Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

November 1, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Hollis Fleischer, Daniel A. Spiro, Office of U.S. Attorney, Baltimore, MD, Michael F. Hertz, Polly A. Dammann, Pamela K. Riley, Rebecca Rohr, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for United States.

Mark Scott London, Christopher B. Mead, London & Mead, Washington, DC, for Syed Rahman.

Paul M. Sandler, Freishtat, Freishtat & Sandler, Baltimore, MD, John T. Brennan, Jr., Michaels, Wishner & Bonner, P.H., Washington, DC, for Oncology Associates, P.C. and Equimed, Inc.

Gertrude C. Bartel, Andrew J. Graham, Kramon & Graham, Baltimore, MD, for Atlantic Radiation Oncology, L.L.C.

Matthew Ralph Goldman, Cleveland, OH, Shelby F. Mitchell, Ronald F. Wick, Baker and Hostetler, Washington, DC, for Merrill Cohen.

John R. Sullivan, Long, Badger, Sullivan & Robertson, P.A., Salisbury, MD, Myles R. Wren, Law Office, Scranton, PA, for Sovereign Bank.

David M. Gische, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP, Washington, DC, for Steadfast Insurance Co.

Daniel James Standish, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC, for Reliance Insurance Co.

Edwin J. Mills, Stull, Stull & Brody, PH, New York City, for Herbard, Ltd.

Christopher L. Hamlin, Greenan, Walker, et al., Greenbelt, MD, Kimberly Luff Wakim, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, LLP, Pittsburg, PA, for Johnson & Johnson Finance Corp.

Andrew C. Kassner, David B. Aaronson, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, PA, for DVI Financial Services, Inc.

Matthew S. Sturtz, Joel Larkin Perrell, Jr., Miles & Stokbridge, PC, for Mobile Diagnostic, Inc., A. Jerome Digiacobbe, Jr., and Calvin Zontine.

Joyce A. Kuhns, Karl Joseph Nelson, Saul Ewing, LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Treatment Centers Ltd. Partnership, PFG Capital Corp., and Regional Medical Services, Inc.

Peter Konolige, Hoyle, Morris & Kerr, Philadelphia, PA, for Nationwide Mutual Insurance.

Jeffrey L. Tarkenton, Erik David Bolog, John David Folds, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Washington, DC, for Oncology Services Corp.

Shawn J. Sefret, Rosenberg, Proutt, Funk & Greenberg, LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Malone Oncology Associates, P.C. and George Washington Real Estate Corp.

Paul Mark Nussbaum, Kenneth Oestreicher, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, Baltimore, MD, Shawn J. Sefret, Rosenberg, Proutt, Funk & Greenberg, LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Nixon Equipment Corp.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ALEXANDER HARVEY, II, Senior District Judge.

These four cases are closely related. Civil No. H-95-2241 (the "Rahman case") is a False Claims Act ("FCA") suit brought initially in this Court by relator Syed Rahman as a qui tam action. On August 25, 1998, the United States filed its complaint in that case naming as defendants Dr. Douglas Colkitt ("Colkitt"), his wife, his business partner Dr. Jerome Derdel ("Derdel"...

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