Tag: Review
State Farm Whistleblower Urges SCOTUS to Review FCA Settlements
A whistleblower asked the US Supreme Court to revive his False Claims Act suit alleging that State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. defrauded federal health-care programs by avoiding payment of medical benefits to car accident victims it insured. The decision improperly enforced a settlement of FCA claims because the government didn’t have the opportunity to …
‘State of Paradise’ by Laura van den Berg book review
Weirdos don’t know they’re strange. Anyone who claims to be weird isn’t, at least not inherently. Sure, a person can devise an infinite number of ways to separate themselves from everyone else, and they can engage in any number of methods of making sure everyone knows they’ve done so. But a true weirdo never tries …
BOOK REVIEW: Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis ~ MAVEN’S NOTEBOOK
Visit the Water Shelf main page I got my start in the water world as a technical writer for a small consulting firm called Integrated Resource Management. After three years of fascinating work for clients from small cities to Fortune 500 companies, I moved into the public sector, but I often think back to that …
Book Review: ‘State of Paradise,’ by Laura van den Berg
STATE OF PARADISE, by Laura van den Berg Recently a portal opened up in Manhattan. Well, not “a portal,” but an art installation concocted for maximum Instagrammability — a live camera feed, called “The Portal,” that connects New York City with Dublin. On a sunny afternoon in May, a small crowd of people, myself included, …