U.S. v. UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

No. 14-1423.

780 F.3d 504 (2015)

UNITED STATES and Commonwealth of Massachusetts ex rel. Julio Escobar and Carmen Correa, Administratrix of the Estate of Yarushka Rivera, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew P. McCue , with whom Law Office of McCue was on brief, for appellants.

Mark W. Pearlstein , with whom Laura McLane , Evan D. Panich , and McDermott Will & Emery LLP were on brief, for appellee.

Robert Ross , with whom Steven Sharobem and Martha Coakley , Attorney General, were on brief, for Commonwealth of Massachusetts, amicus curiae.

Jennifer M. Verkamp and Morgan Verkamp LLC, on brief for Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, amicus curiae.

Before HOWARD, STAHL, and BARRON, Circuit Judges.


The genesis of this False Claims Act case was the care of Relators' daughter at Arbour Counseling Services in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Relators alleged that their daughter — who died of a seizure in 2009 — was treated by various unlicensed and unsupervised staff, in violation...

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