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Setting A New Record, FCA Recoveries Reach $5 Billion in FY2012

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.05.12

DOJ's Acting Associate Attorney General, Tony West, announced that the government recovered nearly $5 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act in FY2012, the largest recovery for a single year. You can read Mr. West's prepared remarks here, in which he notes there were 650 new qui tam actions filed this year, the most ever, and that the majority of the government's recoveries came from whistleblower suits.


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Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.05.26

DOL’s Proposed Independent Contractor Rule Reverts to Prioritize Two Core Factors – Likely Limiting Misclassification Claims by Contractors

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed another revision to independent contractor regulations, one that would provide for more leeway in classifying workers as contractors. DOL’s proposed rule, published on February 26, 2026, would rescind the Biden DOL’s March 2024 independent contractor regulation and reinstate a framework substantially tracking the prior Trump rule of January 2021. The proposed rule would also apply the narrower analysis to worker classifications under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA). The comment period closes in late April 2026; until then, the 2024 rule remains in effect for purposes of private litigation....