7 Whistleblowers filed 672 new
qui tam actions, 456 of which related to the healthcare
industry.
8 The DOJ obtained $2.2
billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving
fraud and false claims against the government, $1.8 billion of
which related to matters involving the healthcare industry.
With the outbreak of the pandemic, the DOJ aggressively pursued
fraud related to COVID-19 during the Trump administration. In the
early days of the pandemic, former Attorney General William Barr
directed the DOJ to remain vigilant in investigating and
prosecuting criminal activity related to COVID-19, warning that
the pandemic is dangerous enough without
wrongdoers seeking to profit from public panic and this sort of
Just 0.03% of participants in the Government s series of large event pilots tested positive for coronavirus in the process, according to initial reports.
Around 58,000 people took part in the regulated large-scale events in April and May, including the FA Cup final and an outside music festival.
The Events Research Programme also saw revellers able to sing and dance for the first time in over a year at a nightclubbing event.
Participants were required to take both a PCR test and a lateral flow test before and after attending an event.
Some 15 people reportedly had a positive Covid test in the testing process, according to a report in
This post was revised on May 19, 2021 to reflect
relevant updates.
On May 5, 2021, New York enacted the Health and Essential Rights Act (the HERO
Act ). The new law seeks to address continued COVID-19 safety
concerns in the workplace and is designed to codify, supplement,
and replace numerous executive actions that have been issued
throughout the pandemic. The passage of the HERO Act imposes
significant new health and safety obligations on New York
employers, including the formation of joint labor-management
workplace safety committees to help ensure worker safety. Employers
should prepare now to come into compliance with the new law, which
we summarize below.
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We have been undergoing mandatory regular antigen testing in
companies for several weeks now. Yet there are still areas where
the approach is not entirely clear. We have compiled answers to the
most common questions.
1. Does the employer have to provide the tests in-house or can
it send the employees to a testing centre?
The following can be used for testing:
The POC network of antigen collection centres,
where testing is fully covered by health insurance.
A secondary provider network consisting of
contracted and non-contracted health care providers who are