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False Claims Act·Compliance & Enforcement Brief

First-to-File Bar Prevents Relators from Recovering Attorney Fees, Even When They Shared the Government’s Recovery

Only one of three relators in a successful FCA action against AthenaHealth was able to recover his attorneys’ fees and costs, after the district court concluded that the first-to-file bar precluded recovery by the others.

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