U.S. v. BERKELEY HEARTLAB, INC.

CA No.: 9:14-cv-00230-RMG (Consolidated with 9:11-cv-1593-RMG and 9:15-cv-2485-RMG).

225 F.Supp.3d 487 (2016)

The UNITED STATES of America and the States of North Carolina, California, Illinois, ex rel. Scarlett Lutz, Kayla Webster, Dr. Michael Mayes and Chris Riedel, Plaintiffs, v. BERKELEY HEARTLAB, INC., BlueWave Healthcare Consultants, Inc., Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, Latonya Mallory, Floyd Calhoun Dent, III and Robert Bradford Johnson, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Beaufort Division.

Signed March 28, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald H. Caldwell, Jr. , U.S. Attorney's Office, James F. Wyatt, III , Robert Adams Blake, Jr. , Wyatt and Blake, Charlotte, NC, Elizabeth A. Strawn , Mary Chris Dobbie , Michael David Granston , Michael Edmund Shaheen , Patricia Hanower, US Department of Justice, Steven N. Berk , Berk Law PLLC, Peter Wilson Chatfield , Phillips and Cohen, Washington, DC, Gill Paul Beck, Sr. , United States Attorneys Office, Asheville, NC, James C. Leventis, Jr. , Jennifer J. Aldrich , US Attorneys Office, John Daniel Kassel , John D. Kassel Law Firm, Columbia, SC, Douglas Edwards Roberts , Marc S. Raspanti , Michael A. Morse , Pamela Coyle Brecht , Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick and Raspanti LLP, Philadelphia, PA, William J. Tuck , Darlington, SC, Eric James Buescher , Justin Theodore Berger , Niall P. McCarthy , Cotchett Pitre and McCarthy, Burlingame, CA, William Alexander Coates , Roe Cassidy Coates and Price, Greenville, SC, for Plaintiffs.

Christopher M. Kovach , Christopher M. Kovach Law Office, Joseph P. Griffith, Jr. , Joseph P. Griffith Law Firm, Morris Dawes Cooke, Jr. , Bradley Bruce Banias , Barnwell Whaley Patterson and Helms, Matthew R. Hubbell , Charleston, SC, Beattie B. Ashmore , Beattie B. Ashmore Law Office, Greenville, SC, Christopher R. Hall , Nicholas J. Nastasi , Saul Ewing LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Brian P. Dunphy , Matthew D. Levitt , Michael S. Gardener , Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, MA, Hope Schwarz Foster , Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


ORDER

This consolidated False Claims Act ("FCA") action stems from three independently filed qui tam complaints. Relator Michael Mayes filed a qui tam complaint in June 2011, Relator Chris Riedel filed a qui tam complaint in December 2011, and Relators Scarlett...

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