Lexology January 17, 2025
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Justice Department released its annual False Claims Act statistics on Wednesday, January 15, detailing the number of cases filed, recoveries made, and relators’ shares awarded in fiscal year 2024. The government recovered $2.9 billion dollars in 2024, with 57% of that total coming from healthcare cases, 3% from defense spending cases, and the remainder from other actions. Seventy-five percent of recoveries came from qui tam actions in which the government intervened and 17% came from cases initiated by the Justice Department, while qui tam actions where the government declined to intervene resulted in only 7% of the year’s recoveries.

2024 also saw more new FCA cases initiated than ever before. There were 1,402 new matters: 423 initiated by the...

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