This is news to me, are there famous examples?
Otherwise I am not sure, if money is the solution to everything, as it could create incentive to create problems or make them worse, only to eventually receive a bigger part of the fines.
Otherwise I am not sure, if money is the solution to everything, as it could create incentive to create problems or make them worse, only to eventually receive a bigger part of the fines.
> create problems or make them worse
Personally, I'd hope that the sophistication of the regulators involved, and the liable parties' lawyers---if you're doing something bad enough to be liable for billions of dollars in fines, you can afford good lawyers---would be a good guard against whistleblowers' trying to game the system.
one example: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-211
Whether the denials were justified or not -- can't say.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act
[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/how-hospice-be...