SEC whistleblower law requires original information about securities violations. Generic complaints don't qualify.

This year has seen a record percentage of whistleblower claim denials by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[1] This rising trend of award denials is a departure from the SEC’s previous track ...

Its rulings so far suggest the pace and scope of awards may be more limited than the business community feared. Since the creation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower ...

Julia M. Jordan of Sullivan & Cromwell writes: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 2016 Annual Report on its Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program reflects that 2016 was historic for the program, ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order in August denying a whistleblower award to an individual who provided the agency with evidence that a defendant in a previously filed ...

Companies have learned, some the hard way, that even standard confidentiality or separation agreements can violate whistleblower protections if they lack explicit carve-outs for reporting to ...