* Digging into the details of the
False Claims Act.
False Claims Act litigation generates a tremendous amount of money for the federal government.
True or
False: Helmets, neck rolls, or cowboy collars prevent axial loading.
In 2004, Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who was a key sponsor of the 1986
False Claims Act Amendments, proposed revisions to section 7623 of the internal Revenue Code that would have created a whistleblower framework similar in key respects to the
False Claims Act.
Both sections of the statute have broad application in health care fraud, as most fraudulent schemes involve the use of
false statements or documents.
True or
False? Upton Sinclair's The Jungle revealed unsanitary conditions in restaurants.
The person who made the
false report was fined pounds 80 fixed penalty notice for wasting police time.
False. On average, a girl loses four to six tablespoons of blood each month.
Although installing an alarm system in your home is certainly beneficial (homes with an electronic security system are roughly two to three times less likely to be burglarized than homes without one),
false alarms have stretched police resources thin, according to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
True or
False: Little hats are just as good as big hats.
It is intuitively obvious that protective-value is reduced by
false negatives: the higher the
false negative rate, the greater the likelihood that individuals with an impairment will escape detection and be charged a premium lower than appropriate for their risk.
The real problem is in deciding how precautionary to be in the face of inevitable uncertainties, demanding that we understand the equally inevitable
false positives and
false negatives from screening evidence.
164) Zedekiah and Jeremiah illustrate the difference between
false optimism and real hope.
This made many mathematicians conclude that it might never be possible to develop a satisfying sense of whether the hypothesis is true or
false.
Department of Justice has collected more than $5.2 billion from
False Claims Act cases, and the pace of recoveries is increasing.