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Company: Quest Diagnostics Inc.
Current Parent Company: Quest Diagnostics
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Penalty: $12,400,000
Year: 2009
Date: August 11, 2009
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Quest Diagnostics agreed to pay $12.4 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that one of its subsidiaries manufactured faulty medical-testing kits that resulted in inaccurate and unreliable laboratory tests that were billed to state Medicaid programs.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New Jersey
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: diagnostic testing
Source of Data: Attorney General Announces Colorado Participates in $12.4 Million Multistate Settlement with New Jersey Company, States News Service, August 11, 2009 (via Nexis).
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.