Mealey's (January 27, 2023, 1:58 PM EST) -- TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge denied allergy testing companies’ motion to dismiss a qui tam suit filed against them alleging violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and multiple states’ insurance fraud statutes in a purported kickback scheme involving the companies’ allergy testing and treatment business models with medical providers, finding that the second amended complaint (SAC) asserts “plausible claims for relief that satisfy” Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)’s “heightened pleading standard.”...