Legal Opinion
Carl Thulin v. Shopko Stores Operating Co., L
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 12, 2014No. 13-3638PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOW, District Judge.
Relator Carl E. Thulin worked as a pharmacist at a Shopko retail store in Idaho from 2006 to 2009. During his tenure, Thulin observed what he believed to be a fraudulent billing scheme in which Shopko submitted inflated claims for prescription drugs to the federal Medicaid program. Thulin filed a qui tarn complaint against his former employer in its home state of Wisconsin, alleging that Shopko violated the federal False Claims Act by overbilling Medicaid. Thulin also asserted analogous claims under the laws of eight different states in which Shopko does business. Shopko…
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