United States Ex Rel. Loughren v. Unum Group

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding, in the Social Security benefits context, that \an applicant's opinion regarding the date on which he became unable to work\ can give rise to FCA liability
• noting that the First Circuit has “long held that the FCA is subject” to a materiality requirement
• noting that “materiality in the FCA context involves a factual determination of the weight that the decisionmaker would have given particular information”
• discussing the facts established at trial indicating that the SSA evaluation of performance capability to be more rigorous than Unum’s process
• “We have long held that the FCA is subject to a judicially-imposed requirement that the allegedly false claim or statement be material.”
• construing similar provision in the FCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).