Successful Qui Tam Defendant Can’t Recover Costs She Didn’t Pay; United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Southern Division, No. 1:16-CV00369 HTW-LGI, U.S. ex rel. James Aldridge v. Corporate Management Inc., et al.

The district court denied a defendant’s request to recovery costs in relation to her successful defense against allegations of healthcare fraud, finding that the defendant’s legal defense was entirely funded by a third party co-defendant and that she incurred no outside expenses and had no obligation to repay her beneficiary.