False Claims Act Legal Ruling: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) requires a relator to provide some representative examples of defendant’s fraudulent conduct, specifying the time, place, and content of their acts and the identity of the actors, and affirming dismissal of complaint for failing to identify even one example of an actual false claim submitted to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for reimbursement. This False Claims Act lawsuit is captioned United States ex rel. Dunn v. North Mem’l Health Care, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 413 (8th Cir. Minn. 2014).
