United States Ex Rel. Schmidt v. Zimmer, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining “this Court applie[s] ordinary causation principles from negligence law in determining responsibility under the FCA” and, therefore, defendant’s conduct must be “a substantial factor in bringing about” the filing of a false claim
• finding knowledge sufficiently alleged where relator pleads that “[defendant] created and pursued a [ ] scheme that it knew would, if successful, result in the submission by [a separate party] . . . of [records] required by Medicare that [defendant] knew would be false”
• “Zimmer created and pursued a marketing scheme that it knew would, if successful, result in the submission . . . of compliance certifications required by Medicare that Zimmer knew would be false.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).