October 28, 2021
The federal government can only seek to throw out whistleblowers' lawsuits after it chooses to join them, but its motion to dismiss such a False Claims Act suit against a UnitedHealth Inc. unit was enough to count as an intervention and support killing the case, the Third Circuit said Thursday.
November 18, 2020
A UnitedHealth Inc. unit whistleblower urged the Third Circuit Wednesday to revive his lawsuit claiming the company defrauded public insurance programs out of billions of dollars, arguing that the government's successful dismissal bid was improper because it wasn't a party to the case.
May 22, 2020
The dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law said the federal government unconstitutionally deprived a whistleblower of his property interest in his lawsuit when it successfully petitioned a Pennsylvania federal court to toss the case against a UnitedHealth Inc. unit, according to an amicus brief filed with the Third Circuit Friday.