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Expansion sought for state false-claims act (access required)

Posted: 3:00 pm Tue, January 1, 2013
By Beth Moszkowicz
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

While the Justice Department reported collecting $5 billion nationwide under the federal False Claims Act in fiscal 2012, lawyers who represent whistle-blowers in Maryland are expressing frustration that the state’s equivalent is limited to health-related fraud. However, lawmakers seemed poised to try to expand the 2-year-old law in the next legislative session.

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