Florida’s Middle District Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss FCA Claims Filed by the United States; Complaint Satisfied Both Elements of the 11th Circuit’s Ruckh Proximate Cause Test
The United States brought a two-count Complaint against Defendant, alleging that he violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A) (Count I), and conspired to violate the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(C) (Count II), by causing a pharmacy to file fraudulent claims with TRICARE, a federal health program. The Complaint alleges the pharmacy paid kickbacks to a marketing company, who in turn marketed compound medications to patients and then referred those patients to the pharmacy for fulfillment of the prescriptions for those medications.… Read More »Florida’s Middle District Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss FCA Claims Filed by the United States; Complaint Satisfied Both Elements of the 11th Circuit’s Ruckh Proximate Cause Test