LONGO et al v. WHEELING HOSPITAL, INC. et al

  1. June 11, 2019

    W.Va. Hospital Can Face DOJ Kickbacks Suit On Home Turf

    A beleaguered hospital facing a False Claims Act suit accusing it of engineering a decadelong kickback scheme won its bid to move the case to West Virginia after a federal judge ruled that an executive's weekly trip to his Pittsburgh office wasn't enough to keep the suit in Pennsylvania.

  2. May 10, 2019

    W.Va. Hospital Wants DOJ Kickbacks Suit Sent Home

    Wheeling Hospital Inc. asked a Pittsburgh federal judge Friday to transfer a U.S. Department of Justice case accusing the hospital of taking kickbacks to the federal court in West Virginia, arguing that the court there would be more convenient for nearly every witness and piece of evidence.

  3. March 25, 2019

    Hospital Facing DOJ Kickbacks Suit Alleges Extortion By VP

    A beleaguered hospital allegedly engineered a decadelong kickback scheme to fix its finances. One of the hospital's top executives blew the whistle. The hospital then sued the executive and accused him of blackmail. It's all part of a striking False Claims Act case that the U.S. Department of Justice outlined Monday.