Siemens Wins Dismissal of Ex-Compliance Officer’s Lawsuit

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Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, won dismissal of a suit by a former compliance officer in its China unit who claimed he was fired after exposing evidence of hospital kickbacks.

U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan today threw out a suit by Meng-Lin Liu, ruling that whistle-blower protections in the Dodd-Frank Act don’t apply outside the U.S.