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Advising the Qui Tam Whistleblower

2001 136 pages + diskette
6 x 9 Paper
ISBN: 1-57073-868-8
Product Code: 5150282

From Identifying a Case to Filing under the False Claims Act
Robin Page West
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Robin Page West is an attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, who represents whistleblowers in cases brought under the False Claims Act. She is admitted to practice in the state of Maryland, and works with other attorneys both locally and around the United States representing clients seeking to stop fraud against the government. Her cases have involved health care, defense contracts, government grants, and other areas where federal monies are used.

Ms. West represented the whistleblower Terry Fletcher in the case of United States ex rel. Fletcher v. MetPath, the fourth largest qui tam recovery nationwide in 1995. In 1998, she represented Donna Dorer in whistleblower case in which Quest Diagnostic, Inc. agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle allegations that some regional labs ran tests and billed Medicare without physician authorization. She also represented Peter Scott in a qui tam action in which Cigna Corp. paid an $8.9 million settlement. Ms. West’s clients have been awarded relator shares as high as the statutory maximum of 30 percent.

Ms. West is the author of "Handling the False Claims Act Case" published in the March 1998 issue of the Practical Litigator. She also co-authored "Whistleblowers," published by the American Bar Association. Ms. West was on the faculty of the American Bar Association’s 1998 Health Care Fraud and Qui Tam National Institutes for lawyers held in California and Washington, D.C., respectively. In September 1996, Ms. West was interviewed on National Public Radio’s "Morning Edition" on the subjects of qui tam litigation and stopping health care fraud. She has been quoted on the subject of qui tam litigation in the American Bar Association Journal, the National Law Journal, The Washington Times, Baltimore’s Daily Record, The Bureau of National Affairs’ newsletter on Health Care Fraud Litigation, and other publications. She also co-chaired the qui tam subcommittee of the American Bar Association Litigation Section’s Health Care Law committee, and was a featured speaker on that subject at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in August 1999.

She is a 1979 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law.

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