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Home Retail is currently checking whether it has overcharged customers.
Travelers complained of being overcharged hundreds of dollars for hotels.
She said they overmeasured (and overcharged), and broke some items.
To avoid being overcharged, don't wait until you get the bill.
So if you were overcharged by thousands, you won't owe Remedy thousands.
Hungarian daily the Magyar Nezmet claimed Orban and his cronies overcharged the
Anthem had sued Express Scripts last year over claims of being overcharged.
Then a US senator suggested the government was overcharged more like $1.27 billion.
Facebook said the error didn't result in billing mistakes or partners being overcharged.
People are done being overcharged to repair their stuff, and politicians are listening.
A couple was handcuffed at Waffle House for complaining that they were overcharged.
According to Rybolovlev, he was overcharged by Bouvier for a collection of paintings.
The risk goes up if the cells are overcharged or charged too quickly.
Tenants who believe they were overcharged can file a complaint with the state.
While rehearsing the Gandhi number, they turn into full-fanged, erotically overcharged vampires.
Employers can always switch insurance carriers if they think they are getting overcharged.
We are hoping the new prosecutor will recognize that it was overcharged as well.
Having more LNG options will help Europe avoid being overcharged by Russia, analysts say.
Ofcom said that the 1,025 customers were overcharged by more than £500,000 in total.
He then overcharged for the events and hid millions of euros in proceeds abroad.
It's no wonder that this overcharged defense system is finally starting to short circuit.
When the batteries are overcharged, overheated, or punctured they build energy rapidly until they explode.
Franke's attorney Joe Gonzales told the San Antonio Express-News that the cases were overcharged.
Apple complained of being overcharged and Nokia responded by accusing Apple of violating technology patents.
But they have no plans to stop punishing those who were overcharged in the past.
When Nye finally got the data, he found that SOA overcharged by close to $18,000.
The EpiPen is so expensive that even the U.S. government feels overcharged The EpiPen is so expensive that even the U.S. government feels overcharged The sharp rise in price for the lifesaving EpiPen epinephrine injector sparked an outcry from people across the U.S. this summer.
There were suggestions she had overcharged clients of her legal practice (though she broke no law).
Boston-based State Street said it regrets that clients were overcharged and is cooperating with prosecutors.
Uber mistakenly overcharged passengers by as much as 22019 times their fare, riders reported on Twitter.
McKinsey had previously defended its fee structure but the firm is now conceding that it overcharged.
"Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care" by Charles Silver and David A. Hyman
They were overcharged a $1.50 for an orange juice and asked to call customer service. pic.twitter.
Higher rates make it more expensive to borrow, slowing down an overcharged economy and restraining prices.
But now people are taking a look at how much money Mylan may have overcharged the Pentagon.
In today's high-strung, overcharged world we need to teach our kids that it's OK to fail.
If I get emotionally overcharged, specifically in social environments, my first reaction is to just fall asleep.
The companies say in the complaint that they were collectively overcharged by about $64.1 million between Oct.
They said the scheme was discovered after one client inquired in 2011 whether it had been overcharged.
As a result, he estimated that the tenant was overcharged by about $17,000 in a single year.
Their book, Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care, will be published in early July.
But just being aware of the pink tax can help women be savvy consumers and avoid being overcharged.
When we get to my stop, I realize too late that the driver overcharged me by five pesos.
"The maximum any customer could have been overcharged is 30 cents per beverage," Starbucks said in a statement.
Many of the complaints focus on being overcharged by carriers or never having received promised mobile data refunds.
The maker of EpiPens overcharged the Medicaid program for years by misclassifying its product, the Obama administration says.
Two weeks ago, a man at a California taco restaurant felt that he'd been overcharged for his food.
However, Medicare officials and Department of Justice investigators are worried that taxpayers are being overcharged for the program.
" But when Amazon opened an investigation, the company told Lorie that she was "not overcharged for the transaction.
"We are alarmed that Mylan may have overcharged our military for this life-saving drug," the Senators wrote.
He was seen as a freedom fighter on behalf of the little people being surveilled, overcharged, and disempowered.
Three experts interviewed by KHN said the lab grossly overcharged; they also doubted the need for the test.
Nordstrom – The retailer reported with its third-quarter earnings that it incorrectly overcharged some of its credit-card customers.
According to an NPR story, private insurers have overcharged Medicare by $30 billion in the past three years alone.
"Time will tell whether folks were overcharged, undercharged, whatever," said City Councilman Brandon M. Scott, one of her supporters.
It's a good way to make sure you're not overcharged, or to detect fishy activity on your accounts.5.
And it's not because they can be overcharged, said Edo Campos, a spokesman for Anker, which produces phone chargers.
Additionally, the NFIP must stop the practice of subsidizing the wealthy at the expense of taxpayers and overcharged policyholders.
Analysts are angry over the latest Wells Fargo scandal where hundreds of thousands of the bank's customers were overcharged.
Saudi leaders and economists have sometimes complained about the wastefulness of this spending and about being overcharged by western businesses.
Healey alleged that PHEAA prevented borrowers from making qualifying monthly payments that count toward loan forgiveness and also overcharged students.
Illinois, which found that consumers couldn't sue a party who had overcharged a third party that passed the cost on.
The defense lawyer also asked the judge to drop so-called lesser included offenses, arguing that prosecutors "overcharged" his client.
British regulator Ofgem was told by parliament last year to cap energy prices after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged.
Between November 7th and December 12th, a source tells BI that video ad buyers were overcharged up to 35 percent.
Last week, a government agency put out a report saying that Mylan may have overcharged the government by $1.27 billion.
However, these cases had critical flaws — and other celebrities, such as Martha Stewart, were convicted on cases that were overcharged.
"This case, frankly, as tragic as it is, this case is grossly overcharged," according to defense lawyer William J. Brennan.
When Time Warner Cable realizes that it has overcharged, it will now automatically give a one-month credit to customers.
In 2017, the drugmaker finalized a $465 million settlement resolving U.S. Justice Department claims it overcharged the government for EpiPen.
UPS WILL PAY $8.4 MILLION TO RESOLVE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALLEGATIONS IT OVERCHARGED FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR PACKAGE DELIVERY SERVICES -GOVERNMENT STATEMENT
But investigators say that the participants in the scheme enriched themselves and overcharged Bloomberg by tens of millions of dollars.
Ms. Marvel at least seems to have a thought-through idea for her Goneril (as a sexually overcharged society hostess).
BP is paying California $102 million to settle claims it overcharged the state for natural gas, the Associated Press reports.
Ofgem was tasked with taking action by parliament last year after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
British Gas overcharged 94,211 customers a total of 782,450 pounds due to a system error after they switched supplier, Ofgem said.
NAB had announced additional costs of 314 million Australian dollars ($224 million), which will go toward refunding customers who were overcharged.
No. What it does mean is you should have the self-awareness to not complain if you get overcharged for something.
I have long been critical of the case as being overcharged, as well as objecting to the prosecutor's heavy-handed conduct.
The lawsuit alleged that PHEAA prevented borrowers from making qualifying monthly payments that count toward loan forgiveness and also overcharged students.
In corporate news, Mylan agreed to pay $465 million to settle charges that it overcharged the government for its EpiPen products.
That misclassification allowed Mylan to underpay the government for Medicaid rebates, resulting in taxpayers and states being overcharged for the product.
The bank charged people for car insurance they did not need and overcharged members of the armed forces for refinancing mortgages.
But a good portion of Ikea's forthcoming collections center the plight of the overcharged and square footage-deficient city apartment dweller.
Following several embarrassing disclosures of inaccurate metrics by Facebook, today Business Insider's Alex Heath broke news that Twitter overcharged some advertisers.
Urdangarin and his partners allegedly overcharged local governments for putting on conferences about sports and business, then hid the proceeds abroad.
Allow me to do the math: To block our FOIA request, the Commerce Department overcharged us by the sum of $2,85033,810.
I'm going to take a wild guess that if he paid that much just to maintain the landscape, he was overcharged.
You will also be overcharged for water, which has been marked up 200% at some airports, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Warren highlighted the $24 million Navient spent on lobbying since 21625, compared to the $2900 million in overcharged student loan subsidies.
Warren highlighted the $24 million Navient spent on lobbying since 2010, compared to the $22 million in overcharged student loan subsidies.
A report by the Office of the Inspector General found that between 2628 and 28503, Capella overcharged student lenders by $22019,497.
Ofgem was tasked by parliament last year with setting a limit after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
The appeals court ruled on May 9 that DNB's asset management arm had overcharged fund investors and must compensate around 180,000 customers.
The scheme caused the insurance company and the funds it advised to be secretly overcharged by more than $800,000, the complaint said.
In other situations, homeowners have been overcharged for solar panels or have been misled about the overall cost savings of solar power.
Until then, the law allows the NPPA, a part of India's chemicals ministry, to fine offending companies and recover the overcharged amounts.
The problem, according to Grobman, was that internal documents showed Kline was overcharged that interest solely because the banks delayed payment processing.
"The men and women in uniform who were overcharged on their student loans while serving our country deserve better," the Democrats wrote.
Mylan slumped $1.19, or 3 percent, to $36.84 after reports the company overcharged Medicaid over five years for its EpiPen allergy treatment.
You will likely leave wondering if you now have spirits tagging along for your vacay and if you got overcharged (you did).
Ofgem was tasked by parliament last year to set a limit after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
The inquiry had previously exposed how the Sydney-based bank overcharged and misappropriated funds from customers, including extracting fees from deceased clients.
Ofgem was told by parliament last year to set a limit after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
What we're watching: HCSC has $323 million of unpaid rebates that need to go out to consumers who were overcharged for insurance.
Frank Pallone, also a Democrat, said Wednesday's response proved their claim that EpiPen was misclassified and that Mylan had overcharged the government.
Instead, Whitefish Energy subcontracted with these public utility crews and overcharged PREPA for their labor, the records submitted to congressional investigators reveal.
UBS has reimbursed $18.5 million to customers holding 15,250 accounts that were overcharged, and converted eligible customers to the lowest-cost shares possible.
The indictment said that as a result of McLellan's action, State Street overcharged the insurers and the funds it advised by about $700,000.
I'm not really into that, so the nagging has proven effective at getting me to explore using my powers in increasingly overcharged ways.
Already the European Commission is investigating whether Gazprom overcharged customers in Eastern Europe, where it supplies nearly 100 percent of some states' needs.
Thursday's verdicts instantly reignited debate here over whether Ms. Mosby had overcharged the officers and prompted speculation about what she will do next.
It alleges Colonial overcharged the companies by more than $60 million combined, and is potentially monopolizing fuel delivery into the New York region.
Don't neglect to check where your money is goingMy mom would carefully scour store receipts to make sure she wasn't overcharged for anything.
And in recent years, students of the now-defunct Trump University filed complaints with the FTC alleging the school misled and overcharged them.
In 2016, Eckert and former Sprout shareholders sued the pharma giant, alleging that it failed to market the pill successfully and overcharged consumers.
On Friday, the company agreed to pay $465 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the Medicaid program for its EpiPen allergy shot.
The upshot -- she seems to be saying the Grand Jury grossly overcharged the "Empire" actor, especially relative to another celebrity defendant -- R. Kelly.
The investigation also unearthed problems at its Merchant Services subsidiary that processed credit card transactions in which smaller companies may have been overcharged.
The investigation also unearthed problems at its Merchant Services subsidiary that processed credit card transactions in which smaller companies may have been overcharged.
Also in 2018, AMP — Australia's top wealth management firm — lost its chairwoman after claims surfaced that the firm had regularly overcharged its customers.
The justices ruled then that those directly overcharged can be compensated but not victims who paid an inflated price passed on by third-parties.
Apple is currently the subject of a lawsuit, now before the Supreme Court, alleging that its App Store monopoly results in customers being overcharged.
Customers say they feel hesitant to shop for groceries online for fear of being overcharged or experiencing late deliveries, according to a recent survey.
But last year, the agency announced it had hired another company to manage its pharmaceutical program for injured workers amid claims OptumRx overcharged it.
On Friday, Ofgem said the caps protect around 15 million customers from being overcharged, with the new cap set to take effect from April.
In June, the bank said it would compensate around 87,000 clients who had been overcharged for an investment products, costing around 400 million crowns.
In July 2016, it agreed to pay $530 million to settle regulatory probes and private lawsuits claiming it overcharged clients on foreign currency transactions.
For the current quarter, the company expects approximately $200 million in costs from ongoing efforts to repay customers who were overcharged for various services.
In 1980 he filed suit against Hertz, claiming that it had overcharged him for gas on a rental car, to the tune of $11.15.
"The men and women in uniform who were overcharged on their student loans while serving our country deserve better," the Democrats wrote. http://bit.
Last month a Florida insurance provider sued DaVita and competitor Fresenius in federal court and all edged that the companies overcharged it for years.
Not long after Mr. Noel arrived in Jonesboro, he said, he became suspicious that his mother-in-law was being overcharged by her advisers.
" But the videos, Mr. van Wyck said, had an odd tone, "like promo videos for middle-market condo buildings that are overcharged to buyers.
The plaintiffs in that case were cellphone customers who claimed that they were victims of deceptive advertising, and that they were overcharged by $30.22.
Under Director Cordray, the CFPB has brought nearly a dozen enforcement actions against financial service providers that overcharged or restricted access for minority borrowers.
In February 2018, Instacart apologized for a "bug" that impacted the payout of some tips to shoppers and caused some customers to be overcharged.
In February, some customers were overcharged after what the company said was system glitch from changes in the way credit-card payments were issued.
The individuals are suspected of allowing the interior ministry to be overcharged for a contract to purchase backpacks in 2015, according to the NABU investigation.
That 1977 ruling limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged rather than indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.
In July, it announced it would pay $530 million to resolve U.S. probes and lawsuits involving claims that it overcharged clients on foreign-currency transactions.
Nordstrom shares plunged after the company said Thursday it incorrectly overcharged some of its credit card customers and missed its original third-quarter earnings projections.
The investigation revealed that CGMI overcharged over 47,000 customers more than $22.5 million in fees, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.
In 24.2, news came to light that Petrobras, its major oil and gas company, allegedly overcharged a cartel of companies for construction and service work.
Mylan — The drugmaker overcharged Medicaid for its EpiPen over two decades, according to Democratic Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Frank Pallone of New Jersey.
That 1977 precedent limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged rather than indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.
The settlement, however, involved no admission of wrongdoing by Mylan, and Blumenthal cited estimates that the company could have overcharged by more than $700 million.
Wells Fargo bankers reportedly overcharged hundreds of business customers, chasing bonuses based on how much revenue they brought in, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
"'Overcharged' forces healthcare policy experts to reexamine some of the fundamental assumptions that have been driving health care policy for decades," Grogan told Business Insider.
The investigation revealed that CGMI overcharged over 47,000 customers more than $22.5 million in fees, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.
Shell Energy Retail overcharged a sum of 100,737 pounds collectively above the level of the price cap between January and March this year, Ofgem's said.
Danske Bank fired Jesper Nielsen, its former interim C.E.O. and the head of its domestic banking arm, over a new scandal about customers being overcharged.
The competition watchdog said on Monday it had forced a small supermarket chain to refund shoppers who it had overcharged for bottles of hand sanitizers.
British energy regulator Ofgem was told by parliament last year to cap energy prices after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
Under the concept of cherry-picking, private market insurers – given a level playing field – will identify these overcharged policyholders and offer them a fairer price.
Mylan has finalized a $465 million settlement with the federal government over claims the pharmaceutical company overcharged Medicaid for the EpiPen, an emergency allergy treatment.
In July 2016, State Street agreed to pay $530 million to settle regulatory probes and private lawsuits claiming it overcharged clients on foreign currency transactions.
The chemistry is quite sensitive to temperature variations, especially excess heat, and can experience what is referred to as a "runaway" condition if overheated or overcharged.
Getting overcharged for the minibar is usually bad enough, but having to deal with fees for an accident you had no control over is far worse.
The researchers in the latter group were 17% more likely to be overcharged for their trip and paid a fare that was, on average, 7% higher.
But they were overcharged whether or not the driver knew they were travelling on expenses (the difference between the extent of overcharging was not statistically significant).
Tokyo-based advertising giant Dentsu has acknowledged that it overcharged more than 100 clients after it conducted a month-long investigation into its own financial records.
The insurer is in the midst of a bitter legal battle with Express Scripts, its current pharmacy benefits manager, over claims that Anthem has been overcharged.
The body shop incident occurred in April 2016 after a dispute with the owner, whom Crawford believed had overcharged him for subpar work on his car.
A probe known as "Operation Car Wash" found that contractors overcharged Petrobras for work, using the excess as bribes that were funneled to ruling coalition politicians.
The Burning Man music festival is suing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), claiming that the government agency has overcharged it in fees for several years.
The bank said some workers altered documents about business clients and it set aside $285 million to refund foreign exchange and wealth-management clients it overcharged.
The liabilities relate to JKX's three cases against the government in Kiev over allegations that it was overcharged in production taxes for certain periods since 2007.
In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that some of Wells Fargo's employees overcharged hundreds of clients for foreign exchange operations in pursuit of higher bonuses.
Qualcomm is currently in a heated and escalating legal battle with Apple, which is suing the chip maker in three countries on claims it overcharged for patents.
But for years, it misled and overcharged desperate student loan borrowers, mishandled accounts, and sometimes lied on federal documents, according to four of the company's former employees.
That and the news that Aramark overcharged the state by $3 million contributed to the decision; and for months following, the change appeared to be a success.
In that case, the court limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged rather than indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.
Knowing everything from how you're being overcharged for a gift to a friend to the smartest ways to lower your student loan bills is a good thing.
The Department of Education is coming under congressional scrutiny for allegedly turning a blind eye to members of the military who were overcharged for their student loans.
Wells Fargo – An internal review showed bankers working for Wells Fargo's currency trading operation had overcharged clients in many cases, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The best ice axes came from Austria, but they often had to rely on ski shops that overcharged for Austrian goods or sold sub-par, imitation products.
But costs for repaying customers it had previously overcharged and marketing costs to re-brand the company after a string of scandals have kept costs stubbornly high.
What Ms. Noel and her husband are trying to find out — whether their advisers overcharged them and whether other assets are still unaccounted for — would benefit everyone.
It raises serious doubts about how rigorous Amazon has been about systemically ensuring that neither its employees nor its algorithms are allowing buyers to be unethically overcharged.
Coordinated Health and its still-current CEO recently paid a combined $12.5 million to the Department of Justice to settle claims they fraudulently overcharged for orthopedic surgeries.
In a long-running and much-reported suit, the Russian collector has said that he was fraudulently overcharged for these purchases, an accusation that Mr. Bouvier denies.
It's a small change, but it's one that helps to simplify billing in an industry that people are used to getting overcharged by and hit with surprise fees.
Because of a glitch in FedLoan's system, the company overcharged thousands of borrowers and hasn't refunded their money or even notified them of the overcharge, the suit claims.
Nearly 200,000 merchants were allegedly overcharged by the company for such markups or other extra fees, according to court documents filed in 2017 when Worldpay settled a lawsuit.
Anthem had considered exiting the Express Scripts deal for several years and sued the pharmacy benefit manager in 2016 over claims of being overcharged by $3 billion annually.
Ofgem has been under intense scrutiny to control price increases, with parliament having said a couple of years ago that customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
Foxx's texts suggesting that Smollett was overcharged came March 8, more than two weeks after Foxx's office announced she was removing herself from decision-making in the case.
The NPPA, which comes under India's chemicals ministry, can in the meantime fine the offending companies and recover the overcharged amount from them, according to India's drugs law.
As for the dispute, Tolbert says he NEVER threatened anybody -- but says he firmly believes he was intentionally overcharged by more than $1,000 because he's an NFL player.
American taxpayers may have been overcharged for EpiPen anti-allergy devices by as much as $1.27 billion over the course of a decade, a U.S. senator said Wednesday.
Melgen had been slapped with a decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that he had overcharged Medicare for $8.9 million for a retina-related treatment.
"Black families are being underserved and overcharged by institutions that can provide the best channels for saving," McKinsey partners Shelley Stewart and Jason Wright wrote in the report.
The U.S. Justice Department is probing whether MiMedx overcharged the government for its tissue repair products, as well as into the company's distribution practices, the Bloomberg report said.
Investigators wanted to know whether Hacienda executives improperly shifted overhead expenses in the company to a subsidiary at the same location that then overcharged the state's Medicaid program.
Over time that breaks down as consumers are ignored, harassed, overcharged and forced into cabs that are filthy, or have drivers who are surly or cannot speak English.
The bank said it paid $114 million to refund wealth management customers who had been overcharged in the last seven years, and $171 million for foreign-exchange clients.
After deciding to look for several contractors himself and soliciting bids on his own instead of relying on the employee, Agrad concluded the company had been greatly overcharged.
It was a source of good news for the countless renters who found an apartment after the new cap passed in mid-June and may have been overcharged.
It was a source of good news for the countless renters who found an apartment after the new cap passed in mid-June and may have been overcharged.
Nordstrom (JWN) shares plunged in the pre-market after the retailer revealed it incorrectly overcharged some of its credit card customers and missed its original third-quarter earnings projections.
LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Centrica's British Gas, Britain's largest energy supplier, has paid 2.65 million pounds ($3.41 million) after it wrongly overcharged some customers, regulator Ofgem said on Wednesday.
Plus, features like these could also make the app useful for people living in underbanked communities or who those just feel generally underserved (or overcharged) by traditional financial institutions.
Changes included in the new FOIA policy include clarifications for when officials will grant expedited processing of FOIA requests and the ability to get refunds when requestors are overcharged.
Dozens of farmers claim the company overcharged for shipping costs of produce, illegitimately held onto additional profits, and underpaid farmers for many types of products including melons and asparagus.
Chevron, Valero and Delta complained to FERC that Colonial overcharged the companies by more than $60 million combined, and is potentially monopolizing fuel delivery into the New York region.
Clinton attempted to capture that "reset" in March 33, when she posed with her Russian counterpart holding a button she thought read "reset" in Russian (it really read "overcharged").
Italy's competition regulator has opened a probe into utility Enel and smaller power company Sorgenia alleging they overcharged grid operator Terna for services relating to the power dispatching market.
The settlement announced on Tuesday by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey resolved claims that the pharmacy chain accused overcharged employers that pay into the state's workers' compensation insurance system.
Ofgem, which is expected to make its announcement this week, was tasked by parliament to set a cap after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged for electricity and gas.
"As defendants have stated succinctly during this litigation, 'a plaintiff may not complain that one hand is being overcharged while the other hand is robbing the store,'" Preska wrote.
"Black families are being underserved and overcharged by institutions that can provide the best channels for saving," said the report authored by McKinsey partners Shelley Stewart and Jason Wright.
A ProPublica investigation found that the Trump Organization may have overcharged the committee for use of Trump's Washington hotel, raising questions about whether any illegal self-enrichment took place.
In August, Mylan announced that it had finalized a $465 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over claims that it overcharged the federal government for the product.
In addition to the alleged bonus and buyback drama, Trujillo said consultants complained software wasn't working properly, they were being overcharged for orders, and their inventory was being delayed.
In April, Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, reached a $19.8 million settlement with the Justice Department over claims it overcharged the federal Veterans Affairs Department for drugs.
Warren, for instance, has railed against Navient over allegations that it overcharged military service members, and the senator has slammed the Education Department for continuing to hire the company.
Alternatively, a city—and its residents—can decide that they're tired of being underserved and overcharged and can opt, with their own tax dollars, to do something about it.
One friend recalled that after Parker helped him resolve a personal dispute with a babysitting service that overcharged by $944.32, he received a bill from Cravath for the same amount.
If Apple does ultimately lose this case, it could have to repay anyone who was "overcharged" thanks to its App Store markup — or even open up the iOS walled garden.
Women were overcharged more often than men—and whether or not the driver knew they were travelling on expenses (the difference between the extent of overcharging was not statistically significant).
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc has agreed to pay more than $5.5 million to resolve allegations that its pharmacies in Massachusetts overcharged for worker injury-related prescription drugs such as opioids.
Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Mylan — The drugmaker agreed to pay $465 million to settle charges that it overcharged the government for its EpiPen products.
The drug company overcharged Britain's health service millions of pounds for an essential thyroid drug by abusing its position as the only supplier, the country's Competition and Markets Authority said.
Responding to the chipmaker's statement, Apple said it is reiterating its comments made in January that Qualcomm had overcharged royalties and gained from Apple's technologies not related to Qualcomm's patents.
The report, from energy switching site uSwitch, said consumers were typically overcharged by 79 pound ($101.62)each, at a total cost of 102 million pound ($13 million)to consumers. bit.
Lawyers for the consumers and insurers had alleged that because of the "pay-for-delay" settlement, they were overcharged by up to $790.3 million, according to an October court ruling.
MILITARY STUDENT DEBT: The Department of Education is coming under congressional scrutiny for allegedly turning a blind eye to members of the military who were overcharged for their student loans.
These transactions have become the subject of a protracted law suit in Monaco and other jurisdictions: The Russian collector maintains that he was fraudulently overcharged, an accusation Mr. Bouvier denies.
In August of last year, Mylan announced that it had finalized a $465 million settlement with the Justice Department about claims that it overcharged the federal government for the product.
The plaintiff, Amy's mother, Gianna Breliant, alleges in her complaint that when she enlisted Boyd's services for help with her daughter's heroin addiction, she was overcharged for useless and illegal treatment.
Mount Sinai Hospital, the prestigious teaching hospital in New York, overcharged Medicare by almost $42 million in 2012 and 2013, according to an audit from the federal Office of Inspector General.
The maker of EpiPens on Friday announced that it has reached a $465 million settlement with the Department of Justice over claims that the company overcharged the Medicaid program for years.
DUBLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - Ireland's main banks must compensate another 3,400 mortgage customers they overcharged for years, the Central Bank said on Wednesday, bringing the total of affected borrowers to 37,100.
The most common mistake you hear attributed to Mosby is that she overcharged in the indictments, trying to establish such a profound degree of blame that it was impossible to prove.
On Tuesday, the West Virginia attorney general said his office was investigating Mylan over potential antitrust violations and accusations that it may have overcharged the state Medicaid program for the product.
United Parcel Service Inc has agreed to pay the United States $8.4 million to resolve allegations it overcharged federal agencies for package delivery services, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
Already two weeks ago the parties were nearing a deal to settle EU concerns that Gazprom overcharged customers and blocked rivals in eastern and central Europe with anti-competitive business practices.
The company has been the subject of federal and state investigations and agreed last fall to pay $465 million to settle U.S. Justice Department allegations that it overcharged the government for EpiPen.
This week, both sides have taken legal action - with Nokia accusing Apple of violating some technology patents and Apple complaining of being overcharged - suggesting a new deal will be hard to agree.
Apple has seized upon a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged instead of indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.
What concerns Sacconaghi in the long term, though, is an ongoing lawsuit at the Supreme Court whether the "Apple Tax" meets the definition of a monopoly that has overcharged customers for apps.
Thousands of Irish homeowners have been paid compensation by banks in recent years after regulators discovered mortgage lenders had systemically overcharged on home loans that should have been switched to cheaper rates.
He backed Britain's Competition and Markets Authority, which said last week it would consider a complaint over the telecoms and financial services sector made on behalf of citizens who were being overcharged.
Shares of Mylan soared 12 percent in premarket trading Monday, after the drugmaker agreed to pay $465 million to settle charges that it overcharged the government for its life-saving EpiPen products.
According to congressional investigators, the massive contract — awarded to a Montana company with two employees — overcharged PREPA for labor and included clauses making it hard to end the contract or conduct audits.
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in a statement said BNP Paribas Wealth Management (BNPPWM) overcharged clients an aggregate HK$9.5 million over 2,300 equity, bond, structured product, fund and derivative transactions.
Drug company Concordia overcharged Britain's health service millions of pounds for an essential thyroid drug by abusing its position as the only supplier, the country's Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday.
Anthem, which accounted for about 6.973 percent of Express Scripts' total revenue in the second quarter, sued the pharmacy benefit manager in 2016 over claims of being overcharged by $3 billion annually.
It's also a good idea to examine packages and contracts to make sure you aren't getting things from vendors you don't need or getting overcharged for items that your venue already provides.
Citigroup is preparing to issue $330 million in refunds after the bank discovered it had overcharged nearly two million credit card accounts on their annual interest rates, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
And in text messages released last week, the elected prosecutor, Kim Foxx, who turned over the case to one of her colleagues, expressed concern to colleagues that Mr. Smollett had been overcharged.
Before the change in leadership late last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau returned nearly $12 billion to the pockets of families who had been cheated or overcharged by financial service providers.
Slurs such as "monkey" and "kalu" (blackie) are liberally thrown at them; they are often asked whether they eat human beings; they are turned away from clubs and overcharged for public transport.
Two Democratic congressmen are raising questions about whether Mylan NV, the company facing backlash for raising the price of its EpiPen device, overcharged the government's Medicaid program for the allergy treatment.  Sen.
G29S was the culprit again, together with Serco, when in 2014 the two companies were found to have overcharged for the electronic tagging of offenders on parole, some of whom had already died.
DUBLIN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A rise in capital levels mean Bank of Ireland could cope comfortably if it has to set aside more money to compensate overcharged mortgage customers, it said on Thursday.
Hong Kong-based AIA Group said it had overcharged customers on their premiums, while the Swiss giant Zurich Insurance Group reported cases in which it had applied the terms of its policies incorrectly.
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - Barclays will pay more than $97 million to settle civil charges, after U.S. regulators said Wednesday the company overcharged clients from its asset management business by millions of dollars.
Investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against Envision Healthcare, alleging the company and its emergency room outsourcing business EmCare did not disclose that EmCare overcharged patients and sent out surprise medical bills.
A recent scathing review conducted by the U.S. Department of Education Inspector General has found that some military service members may in fact have been overcharged on student loan interest rates after all.
Get in the habit of regularly checking your balance to make sure you're staying in line with your budget and to make sure you never get overcharged by a restaurant or store abroad.
Bucking the overall trend, Yamato Holdings dropped 13 percent after the logistics provider announced it overcharged corporate clients by about 1.7 billion yen ($15 million) for moving services, prompted by a whistleblower's alert.
The case hinges on a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged rather than indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.
The Russian collector claims in a continuing multijurisdictional lawsuit that he was fraudulently overcharged by Mr. Bouvier for the Leonardo and 37 other major-name artworks, for which he paid about $2 billion.
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out the Department of Education's student loan servicer for spending millions on lobbying Congress while failing to pay back to the federal government millions in overcharged loan subsidies.
But as an operatic pit band, that Philharmonic virtuosity can tip over into seeming overcharged and overdetailed, as if "Aida" were an orchestral tone poem with some singing way, way in the background.
Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, may have overcharged taxpayers by as much as $1.27 billion over the past decade for emergency allergy treatment, according to a new report by a government watchdog.
Bucking the overall trend, Yamato Holdings dropped 1.7 percent after the logistics provider announced it overcharged corporate clients by about 13 billion yen ($15 million) for moving services, prompted by a whistleblower's alert.
It was intended to resolve claims that merchants were overcharged on interchange fees, or swipe fees, when shoppers used credit or debit cards, and were barred from directing customers toward cheaper means of payment.
Lawyers for the consumers and insurers have said they were overcharged by up to $790.3 million and that the defendants were unjustly enriched by up to $803.3 million, according to an October court ruling.
Carolinas HealthCare System, a hospital system based in North Carolina, paid $6.5 million to the Department of Justice last month to settle allegations that it knowingly overcharged Medicare and Medicaid for urine drug tests.
The Pentagon reportedly overcharged the armed forces about $6 billion for fuel, using the windfall for its other projects in a practice officials defended as perfectly legal, according to a report The Washington Post.
Denny's paid $54 million to settle a 1994 lawsuit filed by thousands of black customers who said they were refused service, forced to wait longer than white customers or overcharged at Denny's restaurants nationwide.
Express Scripts said in April that health insurer Anthem, which has sued the company in March last year over claims of being overcharged, was unlikely to renew its contract after it ends in 2019.
LONDON (Reuters) - Drug company Concordia overcharged Britain's health service millions of pounds for an essential thyroid drug by abusing its position as the only supplier, the country's Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday.
Financial regulators in New York are also investigating whether Volkswagen overcharged consumers when the company leased or financed sales of diesel cars that it later admitted were designed to cheat on air-quality tests.
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A leading U.S. consumer watchdog is preparing to sue Santander bank alleging that the Spanish bank overcharged borrowers on auto loans, two sources familiar with the plans said on Friday.
The Competition and Markets Authority found that utilities had overcharged some British households a total of 1.4 billion pounds ($1.84 billion) a year on average from 2012 to 2015, prompting the government to act.
But regulators rejected the bank's payout plan this summer and told Wells Fargo it must do more to make sure that it can find and repay everyone who was overcharged, Reuters reported in September.
Citizens Advice said on Friday that overcharged customers were losing 4.1 billion pounds ($5.2 billion) a year and called on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to outline how the problem can be fixed.
At the same time, whistle-blowers have filed lawsuits against insurers, claiming they overcharged the programs, and government audits have uncovered a widespread problem with private plans overcharging Medicare over a number of years.
DUBLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Ireland's five main retail banks laid out varying timetables on Wednesday, at the behest of the government, detailing how they intend to compensate thousands of mortgage customers who they overcharged.
Including exceptional items such as the further 300 million euros the bank set aside to cover possible compensation owed to overcharged mortgage customers, the bank's profits last year fell to just 13 million euros.
Using an incompatible charger can drive too much current into a battery, defects can allow a battery to be overcharged, and batteries can start to smoke or even catch fire if they get too hot.
Side note: by the end of our trip, we realize we got quite overcharged for this taxi… AF and I pick up some snacks, bottled water, and other essentials (wine) ($45.82) $59.21 6:10.553 p.m.
" It also says that the two plaintiffs "suffered injury as a result of their purchases because they were overcharged, and were required to pay for cheese [...] that they did not want and did not receive.
Friday's statement did not address the previous ban, but the public administration ministry said Odebrecht's Mexico subsidiary had provided false information in fulfilling a construction contract, and that Odebrecht's Construtora Norberto unit had overcharged Pemex.
Three residents of British Columbia and one person residing in Ontario filed the claims that allege they were overcharged for the vehicles and suffered economic losses as a result of the scandal, Kobe Steel said.
The ride-hail companies pitched themselves as saviors, taking on the so-called villainous, monopolistic taxi companies, which overcharged for their services, drove dirty cars and were inconvenient or impossible to use in many locations.
Danske said in June it would compensate around 87,000 Flexinvest Fri clients who had been overcharged, which would cost the bank approximately 400 million Danish crowns this year and further weighing on costs this quarter.
A federal appeals court has revived a class action alleging that three Florida hospitals owned by HCA Holdings Inc, the nation's largest for-profit hospital operator, overcharged motor vehicle accident victims for emergency radiological services.
This is like a car dealer saying he overcharged you on an auto sale in order to keep repair costs down, a contention that would be laughable if it weren't so outright dishonest and costly.
Manufacturers like them because they pack more energy into smaller packages, but the batteries can self-ignite if they have a manufacturing flaw, are damaged, exposed to excessive heat, overcharged or packed too closely together.
But Mr. Rybolovlev accused him of fraud and said he had been overcharged by as much as $1 billion on the sale of multiple pieces of art by Mr. Bouvier, who was arrested in Monaco.
" But Bamford, who has published several books on US intelligence agencies, says prosecutors overcharged a young student who just wanted to improve relations between Russia and the US. "Believe me, she is not a spy.
"We will be monitoring the level of all suppliers' customer service performance particularly closely after announcing proposals to introduce a price cap to protect those on poor value default deals from being overcharged," he added.
After a year-long investigation, the city says it obtained evidence that, in at least 21 instances, T-Mobile and Metro sold used phones to consumers who paid for new ones and regularly overcharged customers.
But retail clients in the Henderson Japan Enhanced Equity Fund and Henderson North American Enhanced Equity Fund continued to pay the same fees and were collectively overcharged by around 1.8 million pounds, the FCA said.
Mylan NV has finalized a $465 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, resolving claims it overcharged the government for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment, which became the center of a firestorm over price increases.
In 2200, Los Angeles County claimed that the non-profit overcharged the city for medical services, and the gay community has revolted against Weinstein for buying ads encouraging gay men to refuse to take Truvada, a.k.a.
The settlement had been intended to resolve claims that merchants were overcharged on interchange fees, or "swipe fees," when shoppers used credit or debit cards, and were barred from directing customers toward cheaper means of payment.
The prosecutor, the documentary's experts speculate, overcharged Anthony given the limited evidence, perhaps feeling pressure over the public outrage about Anthony, who by the time of trial was made to look like an unfeeling, monstrous mother.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement it had ordered telecom operators to shut down the services of 7,873 apps after finding they had overcharged and cheated users as well as stolen information.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's competition regulator said on Thursday it fined the airport at tourist hot spot Cancun $3.7 million for blocking new taxi operators, which it said reduced competition and effectively overcharged millions of passengers.
A group that represents more than 230,200 "safety-net" hospitals is asking the U.S. Justice Department's fraud section to investigate whether big drugmaker Mylan "improperly" overcharged them for sales of its pricey EpiPen anti-allergy device.
Walgreens will also pay $123 million to resolve claims it overcharged Medicaid from 2008 to 2017 by failing to disclose and charge the discount drug prices it offered the public through its Prescription Savings Club program.
LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Britain's telecoms regulator Ofcom slapped a 2.7 million pound ($3.3 million) fine on EE, the mobile operator owned by BT Group, after an investigation found that it had overcharged nearly 40,000 customers.
DUBLIN, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Bank of Ireland will make an additional provision of 150 to 175 million euros in its financial accounts this quarter after it decided to compensate an additional 6,000 mortgage customers it overcharged.
Kentucky's attorney general on Friday said his office will seek to hire law firms to pursue potential cases stemming from an investigation into whether pharmacy benefit managers overcharged the state's health insurance programs for prescription drugs.
The lawsuit, filed in 2011 and unsealed on Thursday, alleges UnitedHealth Group overcharged Medicare by claiming the federal health insurance program's members nationwide were sicker than they were, according to the law firm Constantine Cannon LLP.
I think they overcharged us by $9, but I didn't realize it until after we left, and they were so nice and gave our daughter a free toy so I don't go back to correct it.
In 2011, SAS settled an investigation by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office by agreeing to pay restitution to consumers who said they were overcharged for shipping and handling fees after buying as-seen-on-TV products.
When states have attempted to seek action against student loan companies that may have misled borrowers or overcharged them, DeVos actively stymied their efforts and declared that only the federal government had authority to take action.
An earlier version of this obituary misstated how much money the House Energy and Commerce Committee, of which Mr. Dingell was chairman at the time, determined Stanford University had overcharged the government for indirect research costs.
DUBLIN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Ireland's central bank expects to conclude some investigations of lenders who overcharged customers by the end of the year, as they identified another 1,400 mortgage holders due compensation, the regulator said on Monday.
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Consumer Council said it would proceed with a class action lawsuit against bank DNB, on behalf of thousands of customers who claim they were overcharged, after the lender failed to have the case dismissed.
Anthem, a big health insurer, sued Express Scripts, which it fired as its PBM, for $15bn last year, alleging that the latter firm had withheld savings and overcharged it by huge sums (Express Scripts denies the allegations).
After customers sign a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) release form, Remedy will be authorized to comb through medical bills from the past year and all future bills to see where consumers are being overcharged.
They said the truth became known by March 2016, when Anthem sued Express Scripts for $15 billion, claiming it was being overcharged by $3 billion annually and seeking the right to end the companies' 10-year contract.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a federal racketeering lawsuit claiming FedEx Corp overcharged customers by inflating package weights, and wrongly collecting customs duties on products sent to Canada from shippers instead of recipients.
Mylan has been the subject of federal and state investigations and agreed last fall to pay $465 million to settle U.S. Justice Department allegations it overcharged the government for EpiPens, although the agreement has not been finalized.
Prosecutors said Urdangarin had used his royal connections to win public contracts to put on events through his non-profit organization, the Noos Foundation, then overcharged for the events and hidden millions of euros in proceeds abroad.
You may need to dispute a fare on Uber if you think you were overcharged or you were charged for a canceled ride, but disputing an Uber charge isn't an automatic guarantee that you'll receive a refund.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's largest energy suppliers have been ordered to cap some of their most expensive tariffs by the country's competition authority after a two-year investigation that found providers have overcharged customers by billions of pounds.
USSenator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) has calculated that Mylan may have overcharged the government by about $1.27 billion (£990 million) for EpiPens, a life-saving anti-allergy medicine.
Critics of Hernandez staged mass protests last year urging him to resign over his links to the $200-million fraud at the Honduran Institute of Social Security, where companies, some formed by institute officials, overcharged for services.
"The individual mandate was supposed to force back into the market the young and healthy people that Obamacare has overcharged," says Avik Roy, a free market health-care expert who has advised presidential candidates and other politicians.
Gazprom, which supplies a third of the European Union's gas, has been on the European Commission's radar since 2012, culminating in charges last year that it had overcharged customers in Eastern and Central Europe and blocked rivals.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a U.S. racketeering lawsuit claiming FedEx Corp overcharged customers by inflating package weights, and wrongly collecting customs duties on products sent to Canada from shippers instead of recipients.
"In the past two years we have seen bath time taking off," said Alisha Ramos, the publisher of Girls' Night In, an online newsletter aimed at 29.69-to-22017-year-olds seeking a respite from overcharged lives.
Regulator Ofgem, which introduced a price cap on standard energy bills in January after lawmakers said customers were being overcharged, is now targeting the operators whose network fees make up around a quarter of British household energy bills.
A provisional agreement announced last month would see Gazprom avoid a fine of up to 10 percent of its global turnover over EU charges it abused its dominant market position and overcharged clients in eight eastern European nations.
Utilities have denied overcharging, but the Competition and Markets Authority found they had overcharged some British households a total of 1.4 billion pounds ($1.75 billion) a year on average from 2012 to 2015, prompting the government to act.
It said on Thursday that it may need to increase a provision by up to 30 million pounds to compensate financial services customers who were overcharged, taking the shine off its best quarterly trading report for two years.
The settlement also covers suits brought by Apple's manufacturing partners, which wanted Qualcomm to repay $9 billion—a number that reportedly could have been tripled under antitrust law—that they say the chipmaker overcharged them for patent royalties.
NYBikerGear, a Putnam Valley, New York-based online seller of motorcycle apparel and accessories, claimed it was overcharged more than 150 times through inflated package weights, and a similar number through improper customs charges, according to court papers.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danske Bank has dismissed its former interim chief executive Jesper Nielsen after thousands of Danish customers were overcharged for an investment product, a first step by its new boss to restore trust in the troubled lender.
Dmitry Rybolovlev, billionaire Russian philanthropist, is suing Sotheby's as part of an ongoing legal battle between Rybolovlev and art dealer Yves Bouvier, after Rybolovlev claimed the dealer overcharged him in a sale of 38 works for $2 billion.
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said in a statement that an investigation found UBS had overcharged clients on 'post-trade spread increases' and charges in excess of standard disclosures and rates between 2008 and 13.
In a parallel case, Buck agreed to pay $5 million to settle civil charges brought with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which alleged that Buck overcharged at least 50 clients around $2.5 million in fees and commissions.
"My view of this case from the beginning was that the prosecutor rushed to judgment, that the prosecutor overcharged, and that the prosecutor didn't take the time to fully and completely investigate this case before charging," she said.
Burning Man organizers sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to recover millions of dollars they say the government has overcharged them in fees over the past seven years at the counter-culture celebration in the Nevada desert.
At ProPublica, Ms. Angwin's team demonstrated how Facebook's ad tools could be used to illegally discriminate against people of certain races, investigated racial bias in criminal sentencing software and examined how African-Americans were overcharged for car insurance.
Danske said it expected to have to add to its capital reserves after retail clients had been overcharged fees in relation to an investment product called Flexinvest Fri and also because of an inspection into its IT governance structure.
Documents published by the court showed its investigation centred on allegations that FCC overcharged for steel in construction projects with a consortium including Brazilian company Odebrecht, using the funds it obtained to then pay bribes to officials in Panama.
OSLO, May 9 (Reuters) - Norwegian banking group DNB's asset management arm has overcharged fund investors and must compensate around 180,000 customers, an appeals court ruled on Thursday in what had been billed as a test case for the industry.
The Russian state gas exporter, which supplies a third of the EU's gas, has been on the European Commission's radar since 2012, culminating in charges last year that it overcharged customers in eastern and central Europe and blocked rivals.
Documents published by the court showed its investigation centered on allegations that FCC overcharged for steel in construction projects with a consortium including Brazilian company Odebrecht, using the funds it obtained to then pay bribes to officials in Panama.
NYBikerGear, a Putnam Valley, New York-based online seller of motorcycle apparel and accessories, claimed it was overcharged more than 150 times through by inflating package weights, and a similar number through improper customs charges, according to court papers.
David Moore and nearly a dozen other farmers claim C.H. Robinson, particularly fresh produce and products distributor Robinson Fresh, overcharged for shipping costs, illegitimately held onto additional profits, and underpaid farmers for many types of products including melons and asparagus.
That amount is nearly three times the $465 million that EpiPen's owner, the big drugmaker Mylan, last October said it agreed to pay the federal government to settle claims that it overcharged the government-run Medicaid system for the devices.
Smaller energy suppliers now account for around 18 percent of the dual-fuel British energy market, up from just one percent in 2012, as customers leave big suppliers which the competition watchdog found to have overcharged consumers billions of pounds.
Anthem, which has said Express Scripts overcharged it by $3 billion annually through unfavorable prices, said it would use drug retailer CVS Health Corp to handle prescription fulfillment and claims processing for five years for the new company, called IngenioRX.
DUBLIN, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Ireland's finance minister, who has threatened to penalise banks if they do not quickly compensate mortgage customers they overcharged, said on Thursday he will not change how deferred tax assets (DTAs) are taxed in the banking system.
In Hong Kong, laws stipulate recruiters cannot charge more than 313 percent of a helper's first month salary but a study by campaign group Rights Exposure showed in reality maids are often overcharged, sometimes 25 times the legally permitted amount.
Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion will pay Scana's customers $1.3 billion, averaging about $1,000 for each customer, and has promised to cut bills by 303 percent to appease users who have been overcharged for years as Scana funded the nuclear project.
OSLO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Norwegian banking group DNB's asset management arm has overcharged fund investors and must pay compensation to around 180,000 customers, the country's supreme court ruled on Friday in what was billed as a test case for the industry.
The proposed class action settlement was disclosed in a filing on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn and would resolve claims by direct purchasers of Restasis such as wholesalers who said Allergan's actions led them to be overcharged for the drug.
"We believe that the benefits of modern technology should accrue to the people, especially those that are underserved, preyed upon and overcharged by our existing financial institutions," a spokesperson for the NYC-DSA's Debt and Finance Working Group told Motherboard.
The oil company has been the target of more than two dozen lawsuits by shareholders in recent years as a result of a massive corruption scheme in which Petrobras executives allegedly took bribes from contractors who had overcharged the company for work.
They include the question of where Mylan's payment is "proportional to what Mylan overcharged taxypayers," as well as "how much of the settlement would be returned to the states," who with the federal government jointly run Medicaid, which covers primarily poor people.
Salvador, Brazil-based Odebrecht, Latin America's largest engineering conglomerate, is also expected to return some 6 billion reais to public coffers, including those of several state companies in Brazil, which it allegedly overcharged in a contract-fixing and political kickback scheme, Valor said.
It is the latest of Australia's "Big Four" banks to turn in a weak result, weighed down by millions of dollars in provisioned payments to reimburse customers whom a public inquiry found had been overcharged or wrongly billed for services not provided.
Blumenthal's call comes after an announcement by Mylan earlier this month that it had reached a $465 million settlement with the DOJ over claims that the company overcharged the Medicaid program for years by misclassifying EpiPens as the wrong type of drug.
Basically, if Charter thinks that they're getting overcharged for HBO or Turner, than Comcast is paying, they'll say, there's a clause in their contract that says, no, no, you're giving me the best possible rate that you make available to others. Right.
In Type 22013 diabetes, the version of the ailment linked to Western diets and obesity, it goes the other way: The patient loses sensitivity to the insulin being produced, and the beta cells become overcharged to compensate, until eventually they weaken or die.
DUBLIN, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Most Irish lenders will have started redress and compensation schemes for mortgage customers they overcharged in recent years by early December, with the remainder established by the year-end, Irish Central Bank Governor Philip Lane said on Tuesday.
After plaintiffs' lawyers submitted their fee request, a class member represented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute objected, contending (among other things) that class counsel overcharged for the services of contract lawyers and otherwise overbilled their clients for nearly $214 million in unnecessary or duplicative work.
Danske Bank, whose shares have dropped more than 40% over the last year, said it expected to have to add to its capital reserves as Denmark's financial watchdog is investigating a case where retail clients had been overcharged fees in relation to an investment product.
After reviewing the plan - which could involve contacting some 600,000 drivers - the OCC told Wells Fargo it needed more assurances that the bank would find and repay everyone who was overcharged, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the rejection.
Utilities have denied they have overcharged customers, but the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) found that British households overpaid 1.4 billion pounds a year between 2012 and 2015 because of uncompetitive standard energy tariffs to which about 70 percent of the largest companies' customers are subscribed.
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - U.S. officials have filed a complaint against several units of YRC Worldwide Inc alleging that the freight companies systematically overcharged the federal government for its services and lied to hide their misconduct, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.
Apple argues that the defendant is seeking damages based on the "pass-on theory"—that it overcharged a third party and that the third party, not Apple, passed on the charge to consumers—which would render the case moot, were the court to agree with the company.
In the past, eating, say, a critically endangered giant salamander could cause trouble—but only in terms of punishment for the restaurant that overcharged for giant salamander meat, that is, or bad publicity for cops who decide to chow down on giant salamander at a celebratory meal.
Though it's unclear what the committee was ultimately charged, e-mails show there was concern that they were being overcharged by the organization with room rates of $175,000 per day and a $700,000 bill for the Presidential Ballroom and meeting rooms over a four-day period.
"I remember all those times I was Western Unioning my parents when I was 20 living in Miami not making anything because all the checks you would make would go back into modeling and being sucked into your apartment that you're being overcharged for," she said.
Billing specialists, which can cost up to $200 per hour or take up to 35 percent of any savings they find, dig into the minutia of medical invoices to make sure you were not overcharged and don't pay anything that should be covered by your insurance.
Mylan, the maker of the allergy treatment EpiPen, said Friday that it had reached a $4.853 million settlement with the Justice Department and other government agencies over questions on whether the company had overcharged Medicaid for the treatment by improperly classifying it as a generic drug.
" In March 2009, President Barack Obama dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov in Geneva with a symbolic red button labeled with a Russian word that the Americans thought mean "reset," but turned out to mean "overloaded" or "overcharged.
The SEC said in a statement it found that at least 60,000 advisory clients of the Citigroup Inc unit were overcharged some $18 million in fees because of failures to confirm the accuracy of billing rates in its computer systems compared to rates in client contracts and other documents.
There are plenty of reasons to hate on Comcast: the company has pushed for the repeal of net neutrality protections, enrolled people in useless programs without their permission, overcharged customers, and has regularly found its way to the top of the list of the most hated companies in America.
Under a consent order with the New York State Department of Financial Services, the company's PHH Mortgage Corp unit and its PHH Home Loans LLC affiliate will also employ an outside auditor for one year, to help identify and make refunds to borrowers who were overcharged on closing costs.
David A. Hyman and Charles Silver are professors at the Georgetown Law Center and the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, respectively and coauthors of Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, which will be published by the Cato Institute in June, 2018.
One attendee, Elizabeth Moreno, was overcharged to the tune of $17,850 for a drug test that, without her full knowledge of the tests being performed, were sent to an out-of-network lab that charged an outrageous amount, which some experts have said is far above usual market prices.
E.ON indicated 101.23 percent lower RWE indicated 2101.2 percent lower Britain's largest energy suppliers, including RWE npower and E.ON, have to freeze their most expensive tariffs, the country's competition authority said on Friday in its final ruling on a two-year investigation that found providers have overcharged customers billions of pounds.
The 163nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge had erred in concluding that the plaintiff Sean John, a frequent purchaser of pre-packaged cheese and cupcakes, had no right to sue because he could not show that Whole Foods overcharged him for a specific purchase.
In other words, brides and grooms are easy to take advantage of because they don't know the market; they expect to shell out loads of cash, and unlike the person who is overcharged for, say, a washing machine, they will probably never even realize they were taken for a ride.
SAN JUAN, P.R. — The mystery man at the heart of what is being called "a monumental fraud" in Puerto Rico broke his silence this week, answering questions under oath about whether conspirators at the island's electric utility overcharged residents by hundreds of millions of dollars and worsened the island's debt crisis.
Abbe Smith, an attorney for one of the defendants who pleaded guilty, Dane Powell, said she expects defense lawyers to press the argument that the defendants were overcharged, and that any bad acts committed that day were not "felonious," even if the value of property damage met the threshold for a felony charge.
The lawsuit claims the plaintiffs "have suffered injury as a result of their purchases because they were overcharged, and were required to pay for cheese, which is not a component of either a Quarter Pounder or a Double Quarter Pounder, that they did not want and did not receive," the Herald reports.
NASA hasn't released the final report of its investigation, but Wired spoke to Brett Kennedy, the head of the RoboSimian project, who suspects the battery had a damaged cell that resulted in it getting overcharged, which ultimately led to it overheating, catching fire, and quickly taking the rest of the battery with it.
At the end of the 19th century, the French physician Augustin Marie Morvan described four patients with neurological abnormalities, caused, he hypothesized, by an overcharged nervous system, which could result in many of the symptoms the patient experienced: a rapid heart rate, wildly variable blood pressure, fasciculations, insomnia, hallucinations, ileus and loss of appetite.
"Notwithstanding the availability of Quarter Pounders and Double Quarter Pounders, customers have been forced, and continue to be overcharged for these products, by being forced to pay for two slices of cheese, which they do not want, order, or receive, to be able to purchase their desired product," their attorney wrote in the lawsuit.
The workers were fired not for unionizing, he said, but for cause: Starting in July 2016, the management became aware of what he said was an elaborate scheme in which waiters overcharged for sodas and coffees, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the restaurant over time, according to information the company provided to the labor board.
Mascagni agrees that online reviewers are most protected when they stick to their "honest opinion" and stay away from "broad generalizations," he tells CNBC Make It. And if you do level an accusation in your online review — such as claiming you were overcharged by a business — make sure you can support your claims with documentation, like a receipt.
In the three years after its CEO acquired first-hand knowledge of what was going on, the bank never explained how many fraudulent accounts were uncovered, how many customers were overcharged in fees on unauthorized accounts, how metrics on account sales growth were compromised by the fake figures, or even whether there was an active federal investigation into its practices.
Police searched 40 places in five different states and sought to arrest 10 other people with Thursday's operation, dubbed "Brazil Cost," an outgrowth of the two-year "Operation Car Wash" probe centered around kickbacks via state-run oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA. The alleged kickbacks to those arrested stemmed from an overcharged contract for technical assistance at the Planning Ministry, investigators said.
To be someone of Chinese descent who speaks Mandarin and English but not Cantonese is to experience a double foreignness, and two subtly different kinds of suspicion: if I spoke English, I was assumed to be a Westerner, which meant being treated with wary deference but also being outrageously overcharged; speaking Mandarin was worse, eliciting a distrust that bordered on contempt.
Crosby's reading of a Poe story in which "every element of the narrative is overcharged with significance, every detail mysteriously endowed with a blank surplus that oppresses rather than enlightens"—and that continually invites the reader to try to figure out what's going on while repeatedly frustrating those efforts—could certainly be applied to Khakpour's book, with its paranoid logic and spiralling, dizzying structure.
It's one thing to express a political point of view... It's another thing to be attacking individuals like the head of the union of Carrier air conditioning [and] attacking the CEO of Boeing with a completely mistaken excess of how much Boeing had overcharged for the next Air Force On. This stuff is just bullying, and every time he tweets something, he lets an army of trolls get into the act.
Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE (D-Mass.) called out the Department of Education's student loan servicer for spending millions on lobbying Congress while failing to pay back to the federal government millions in overcharged loan subsidies.
Appeals are entered by businesses and people who feel the city or others have done them wrong: A taxi driver who overcharged passengers 90 times in eight months but said it wasn't his fault; a homeowner given a ticket for not attending to dead leaves within 18 inches of her curb; a woman refused a marriage license because someone with the same name, birth date and parents had gotten one 10 years earlier.
Let's see what wound up on Mr. Blindauer's cutting room floor: Out of the 60+ puzzles I've done for The New York Times since 2005, it looks like this is only my fourth solo Sunday: "Overcharged" was constructed under the tutelage of Nancy Salomon; "Secret Santa's Helpers" was made during my holiday phase (see also Halloween and the 4th of July); and "Figure of Speech" was one where I got lucky with crossing theme answers.
Wells Fargo admitted its missteps and paid fines of $185 million, but accusations of bad behavior kept multiplying: that some customers who took out car loans were forced to buy unwanted auto insurance; that more than 500,000 people were enrolled in a bill-paying service they may not have asked to join; that some mortgage customers had been overcharged; and that some people had been charged for life-insurance policies they did not buy.
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