In re Ginsburg

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• recognizing that claims based on remedial statutes survive death where the forum state’s law permits recovery for wrongful death
• “The qui tam provisions are remedial and in no way act to penalize the FCA defendant.”
• “In the absence of an expression of contrary intent, the survival of a federal cause of action is a question of federal common law.”
• “In the absence of an expression of contrary intent, the survival of a federal cause of action is a question of federal common law.”
• “The defendant’s payment under the FCA remains the same regardless of whether the relator decides to file a qui tam action. The relator’s recovery is merely a portion of the government’s recovery.”
• “The FCA’s qui tam provisions do not act as a penalty; rather, they provide incentive to government ‘whistleblowers’ and compensate such individuals for their time and trouble.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).