How Vast Government Aid and Imaginative Enforcement Could Mean FCA Liability for a Growing Breadth of Industries

Over the past few years, both the government and False Claims Act relators (whistleblowers) have targeted more types of defendants than they have ever previously.  Against this backdrop, Congress passed two of the largest relief bills in modern history and thus even more companies find themselves involved with the federal government in a new way or for the first time  This article examines the government’s enforcement of FCA against such new or non-traditional defendants and provides key takeaways.