Panel Reverses, Says Including Time Under Seal Wrong In Calif. False Claims Suit

(March 2, 2023, 11:06 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court reversed and remanded a trial court’s dismissal of a qui tam medical insurance fraud suit filed against a chiropractor and related entities, finding that dismissal under a rule requiring a suit to go to trial within five years after filing was incorrect because the trial court failed to exclude from the five-year calculation the time under seal and stays due to alternate criminal proceedings against some of the defendants....