Emerging Litigation Podcast
Emerging Litigation Podcast
Tom Hagy
When Algorithms Find Fraud: The New False Claims Act with Tom Suddath and David Bender
37 minutes Posted Aug 27, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Lincoln’s Law And The New Playbook
DOJ’s Focus Initiative Explained
Why Healthcare Is Ground Zero
Anomaly Versus Fraud Comes Down To Intent
Guardrails For Data Miner Cases
What Makes A Case Legally Strong
AI Supercharges Claims And Complaints
Will DOJ Dismiss More Qui Tam Suits
Using Data Mining For Compliance Defense
Why The Guests Chose This Work
Tom’s Path Into Legal Media
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A False Claims Act case used to conjure up an insider with evidence of fraud. Increasingly, it may start somewhere very different: a public dataset, a spreadsheet, and an algorithm looking for patterns. In this episode, I’m joined by Tom Suddath and David Bender of Reed Smith to talk about data-driven FCA litigation and DOJ’s Focus Initiative—Broad Oversight Through Careful Use of Statistics—and what it could mean for healthcare enforcement in 2026 and beyond. Healthcare is particularly ferti...