Results for our Clients
Phillips & Cohen’s record for helping whistleblowers succeed in pursuing cases involving fraud against the government is unmatched by any other law firm.
Cases we have brought on behalf of whistleblowers under the False Claims Act have resulted in recoveries totaling more than $7 billion. Many of our whistleblower clients have received sizeable rewards as a result of the work done on their behalf by our lawyers.
As a federal judge noted in a decision to increase a client’s reward in one of our cases, “The willingness, resources, and persistence of [Phillips & Cohen], proved crucial to the survival of this litigation, which resulted in a significant recovery to the United States.
The IRS hasn’t settled any cases yet under the new IRS whistleblower law. But before the law was passed, we convinced the IRS to award a confidential informant a sizeable reward – something the IRS rarely did under the old statute—after he had been unable to secure a reward on his own.
Below are the outcomes of some “qui tam” cases brought on behalf of whistleblowers by Phillips & Cohen that involve fraud against the government.
|
Defendant |
Settlement amount |
Phillips & Cohen client |
|
Pfizer Inc. |
$1.8 Billion |
John Kopchinski |
|
TAP Pharmaceuticals |
$875 million |
Dr. Joseph Gerstein |
|
HCA Inc. |
$631 million |
James Alderson and John Schilling |
|
Cephalon Inc. |
$425 million |
Bruce Boise |
|
Northrop Grumman |
$325 million |
Robert Ferro |
|
Quest Diagnostics |
$302 million |
Thomas Cantor |
|
Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch et. al |
$200 million |
Michael Lissack |
|
Mario Gabelli and his affiliates |
$130 million |
Rufus Taylor |
For a more complete list, see www.phillipsandcohen.com.