US EX REL. BRANCH CONSULTANTS v. Allstate Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the first-to-file rule is meant to “spur the prompt reporting of fraud” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• explaining that whistleblowers “act as private attorneys general in bringing suits for the common good”
• “[F]orcing the government to expend its limited time and resources wading through the records of ninety-one [ ] insurers in an attempt to identify specific instances of fraud would completely undermine the enforcement component of the FCA’s qui tarn provisions.”
• “[F]orcing the government to expend its limited time and resources wading through the records of ninety- one WYO insurers in an attempt to identify specific instances of fraud would completely undermine the enforcement component of the FCA’s qui tam provisions”
• \The sufficiency of the [earlier] complaint under Rule 9(b) is a matter for [the court the complaint is before] to decide in the first instance.\
• “The sufficiency of the [earlier] complaint under Rule 9(b) is a matter for that court to decide in the first instance,”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).