In the News Today – April 12, 2016
- Australian Class Action Attorneys Pocket Settlement Dividends While Victims Wait for Compensation: Attorneys at Australian class action plaintiffs’ firm Maurice Blackburn reportedly have “pocketed dividends of over $16 million” from a $494 million settlement over bush fires in the country. However, “many of the victims are yet to receive any compensation,” and some of the survivors were told two months ago they wouldn’t receive any compensation until next year. (LawFuel/The Australian)
- Large Portion of 2015 FCA Recoveries from Cases in Which Government Didn’t Intervene: A Department of Justice statistics overview shows that more than $1 billion of 2015 recoveries in False Claims Act cases came from cases in which the government declined to intervene. McGuireWoods attorney David Pivnik said the FCA relator bar is a “well-organized” group of attorneys “pursuing increasingly novel theories of FCA liability.” (Legal Newsline)
