September 21, 2017
A Massachusetts magistrate judge on Wednesday kept alive a former sales representative's allegations that Acclarent Inc. fired her for questioning the company's purported submission of false claims to the government, but tossed allegations against parent companies Ethicon Inc. and Johnson & Johnson.
April 10, 2017
Johnson & Johnson unit Acclarent Inc. asked a magistrate judge in Boston on Monday to dismiss a former sales representative's False Claims Act retaliation case, saying the whistleblower wasn't actually complaining about false claims submitted to the government when she was fired.