State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., more than 300 other insurance companies, and an insurance-industry service provider defeated whistleblowers' attempt to reinstate a False Claims Act suit alleging Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to a Sixth Circuit opinion.
A Michigan federal district court properly dismissed the suit filed by whistleblowers MSP WB LLC and Michael Angelo because they failed to plead with specificity that the insurers were obligated to reimburse the government health-care programs for payments made to beneficiaries, Judge Joan L. Larsen of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a nonprecedential opinion affirming the ...