Lender: Claims In FCA Suit Properly Dismissed On Materiality, Causation Grounds

(October 7, 2022, 7:37 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal district court did not err in granting summary judgment against a relator in a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit in which the relator alleged that a mortgage lender fraudulently approved insurance for Federal Housing Authority Administration (FHA) loans that did not meet U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requirements because the relator failed to produce, on a loan-by-loan basis, “evidence sufficient to create a triable issue of fact on the FCA’s materiality and causation elements,” the mortgage lender argues in an appellee brief filed in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....