"There are so many [False Claims Act lawsuits brought by whistleblowers]

... now in U.S. attorneys' offices around the country, there is a trend for the government to 'not intervene at this time' — that's how they put it to the court. The case is later unsealed, and the government intervenes at that point. The fact that the government doesn't intervene early is not indicative of whether they will or will not get into the game later."
— Anne Tompkins, an attorney with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Charlotte, N.C., told the audience at a recent Health Care Compliance Association webinar.