January 08, 2019
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a $350 million suit alleging the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency's billing practices violated the False Claims Act, rejecting claims that trial errors undercut a Virginia federal jury's December 2017 decision clearing the student loan provider.
December 05, 2017
A Virginia federal jury entered a verdict Tuesday completely clearing a Pennsylvania-based student loan provider accused of improper billing practices under the False Claims Act, which could have cost the provider $350 million had the verdict gone the other way.
May 04, 2017
A Virginia federal judge refused Wednesday to give a student loan company an early win against False Claims Act allegations that the business continued improper billing practices after warnings from the U.S. Department of Education, finding the Escobar precedent does not undermine the case.
March 27, 2017
A student loan agency cannot escape a False Claims Act suit over charges it inflated interest rate subsidies based on a Supreme Court ruling that misrepresentations are not material under the FCA unless they effect the government’s decision to pay a claim, the government told a Virginia federal court Friday.
January 16, 2015
A Virginia federal judge on Friday dismissed for the third time a long-running False Claims Act suit alleging the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and Vermont Student Assistance Corp. defrauded the U.S. Department of Education by improperly inflating interest rate subsidies.
December 07, 2012
A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday tossed four quasi-state student loan financing agencies from a long-running False Claims Act qui tam suit accusing them and others of improperly inflating interest rate subsidies from the U.S. Department of Education, ruling they are immune from such lawsuits.
September 21, 2012
Four quasi-state student loan financing agencies on Thursday urged a Virginia federal judge to toss them from a long-running False Claims Act qui tam suit accusing them and others of improperly inflating interest rate subsidies from the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that they are immune from such lawsuits.