U.S. EX REL. KAPLAN v. METROPOLITAN AMBULANCE

No. CV-00-3010 ERK JMA.

395 F.Supp.2d 1 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Larry Kaplan Plaintiff, v. METROPOLITAN AMBULANCE & FIRST-AID CORP., (Now Known as Sez Metro Corp.); Metro North Ambulance Corp. (Now Known as Sez North Corp.); Big Apple Ambulance Service, Inc. (Formerly DBA United Ambulance); and Stephen Zakheim Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

October 26, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York by Edward K. Newman, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, NY, for Plaintiff.

Jay Safer, LeBoef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, New York City, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

AZRACK, United States Magistrate Judge.

This is a qui tam action in which relator, Larry Kaplan, seeks to recover damages on behalf of himself and the United States pursuant to the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729. The Complaint alleges that defendants defrauded the federal government by falsifying documents to obtain reimbursement for ambulance transportation services it provided to Medicare patients. The United...

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