Charter says that each month it overcharges customers at least $442,000.
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Charter said it will give a one-year credit for overcharges.
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"Despite being aware of its billing system logic error for nearly a year, P.H.E.A.A. has failed to refund the overcharges, or even to notify borrowers of the overcharges," the attorney general's office wrote in its filing.
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Overcharges in this market have been estimated at $50 billion per year.
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Borrowers' mortgage installments could be reduced to reflect previous overcharges, he added.
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Each one has a built-in recharge control and never overcharges itself.
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Overcharges ranged from 80 cents for pecan panko to $14.84 for coconut shrimp.
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The sum total of the rent overcharges cannot be calculated from available records.
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"Rent overcharges or rent fraud is part of a systematic business model," he added.
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The vast majority of these overcharges are funneled into the pockets of large, incumbent carriers.
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Estimates on the percentage of medical bills that contain errors or overcharges range from 60 – 90%.
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Twitter is filled with complaints that range from overcharges to app outages to popular movies being unavailable.
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Victims complain of shoddy workmanship, overcharges, and add-ons that have little to do with clean energy.
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The barista this morning is new, and she overcharges me by mistake, but I'm too tired to complain.
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Why I took a literal knife to the most expensive thing I've ever bought Apple overcharges for RAM.
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The numbers are particularly stark when they involve disputes for small amounts, like questionable bank fees and overcharges.
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It will also be waiving late fees, along with domestic overcharges for data, voice and text, retroactive to March 13.
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AT&T is fighting back against criticism that it is unfairly denying customers the right to sue over alleged overcharges.
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Pact also apparently failed to adequately inform users on how to cancel the service, resulting in months of overcharges for some.
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He had noticed discrepancies and overcharges from Southwest Key's accounting team, and wanted to cut school costs by hiring external firms.
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In fact, as a result of the lack of competition in the BDS market, US businesses are forced to pay an estimated $20 billion annually in market failure-driven overcharges, according to the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), which argues that Pai's plan will increase BDS overcharges by as much as an additional $20 billion per year.
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Thirteen individual consumers from around the country are seeking class-action status and a variety of damages for alleged overcharges since Jan.
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That's because the bill basically overcharges healthy people and younger people in order to partially offset the cost of covering sicker people.
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"It undercharges 50 percent of its risks, and it overcharges 50 percent of its risks, on an equal weighting," Mr. Poulton said.
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A technical error affecting about 1 percent of its accounts led to overcharges for tens of thousands of borrowers, the complaint said.
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Claims could grow to more than $1 million in rent overcharges in a single apartment building if the company is found liable.
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Still, cable box rentals could be costing customers between $6 billion and $14 billion in overcharges, according to the Consumer Federation of America.
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In part because of the complex U.S. healthcare system, Americans pay $120 billion a year in medical billing errors and overcharges, Remedy says.
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An investigation from Canadian news organization CBC found in 2018 that Apple often overcharges for product repairs compared to independent tech repair shops.
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Ms. Shavitz said that she was financially comfortable and could afford her rent but would still participate in a lawsuit to win back overcharges.
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The emails show that Mr. Reichberg raised the issue of $650,6503 of "overcharges" with the chief of staff of First Deputy Mayor Tony Shorris.
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Initially, the sales abuses centered around millions of phony customer accounts but eventually revealed overcharges on auto and home loans and other improper practices.
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Initially, the sales abuses centered around millions of phony customer accounts but eventually revealed overcharges on auto and home loans and other improper practices.
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Wells Fargo, already reeling from a scandal over fake accounts and a settlement over home appraisal overcharges, has been hit with yet more accusations.
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It has said it began reviewing customer invoices in 2015, and has since reimbursed most customers affected by the overcharges and improved its billing processes.
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When two customers filed for classwide arbitration, claiming fee overcharges, JPay sued its customers in federal court in Miami to shut down their collective arbitration.
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A good mechanic does the work as estimated and never overcharges unless they find something serious while doing the agreed-upon repair and update you.
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They are also urging Uber to commit to a more transparent pricing structure, especially in light of recent reports that it routinely overcharges riders for trips.
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The Attorney General asked FERC in May to block an estimated $22015 million in expected overcharges from the auction and investigate whether Dynegy manipulated the market.
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The National Veterans Legal Services Program and two other nonprofit groups filed a class action in 2016 seeking to recover what they said were systemic overcharges.
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State Street said it began reviewing customer invoices in 2015, and has since reimbursed most customers affected by the overcharges, while also improving its billing processes.
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Remedy has developed a proprietary technology platform that combines powerful error detection algorithms with a network of medical billing specialists to eliminate unnecessary medical errors and overcharges.
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One NerdWallet study found rampant hospital billing errors had resulted in overcharges of up to 26 percent, and nearly half of all Medicare claims contained billing errors.
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A U.S. appeals court on Monday signaled its support for a class action lawsuit alleging the federal judiciary overcharges the public for access to the court documents.
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Ohio's attorney general wants to claw back "overcharges" from OptumRx, and Kentucky criticized its drug benefit companies for retaining almost $124 million last year through spread pricing.
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ConvergEx agreed three months later to pay more than $150 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil probes into alleged customer overcharges, and various units admitted wrongdoing.
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As a result, Remedy identifies errors and overcharges on 2000 percent of the bills it reviews, saving the average American family $1,000 a year on their medical bills.
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There is very little of it, but every character feels distinct from the next, and charming in their own way (even the kid that overcharges you for feathers).
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But given the large volumes of product involved, prosecutors have said even tiny overcharges per unit of product could deliver huge illicit profits to shady traders over time.
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While healthcare costs have increased by 363 percent since 236, patients pay $255 billion each year as a result of medical billing errors and overcharges — usually unbeknownst to them.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Global Markets Inc, a unit of Citigroup Inc, has resolved a four-year investigation of fee overcharges, the New York attorney general said on Thursday.
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It is common for FedEx and rival United Parcel Service Inc, which together command much of the U.S. express package delivery market, to be accused of overcharges by customers.
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"Instead of correcting their mistake by refunding the overcharges, their practice has been to just pocket the money," said Senator Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who chairs the panel.
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Apple claims that the company overcharges for licenses and has sued it for patent infringement, while Qualcomm has sought to have Apple phones banned from China, among other things.
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It is common for FedEx and rival United Parcel Service Inc , which together command much of the U.S. express package delivery market, to be accused of overcharges by customers.
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The special master said that was the maximum haircut he could apply, short discounting specific overcharges, under the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in 2008's Moreno v.
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The iPhone users who sued countered that they pay Apple - not an app developer - whenever buying an app from the App Store, and were therefore direct victims of the overcharges.
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Although the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal oversees rent-regulated apartments, the responsibility for uncovering overcharges falls mostly to tenants, many of whom are unaware of the rules.
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She also said the alleged overcharges were impossible to calculate because surpluses in the accounts were carried from year to year, with the courts requesting appropriations to make up for shortfalls.
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Noting that they pay Apple - not an app developer - whenever buying an app from the App Store, the iPhone users who brought the case said they were direct victims of the overcharges.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has formally demanded that OptumRx, one of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers, pay back $16 million in "overcharges" related to handling drug benefits for a state agency.
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After several years of limbo and the settlement of a lawsuit over illegal rent overcharges, the Blackstone Group and Ivanhoé Cambridge paid more than $5 billion to take the complex over in 2016.
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Prosecutors say that McLellan also participated in a separate scheme to apply hidden fees to fixed-income trades conducted for funds advised by a New York-based insurer, resulting in about $700,000 in overcharges.
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He said the lawyers helped negotiate more time for payments of back rent, fought any overcharges and took landlords to court in cases in which problems have been neglected or tenants have been harassed.
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The biggest overcharges were made to poor and minority patients, and the biggest gaps between charges for Medicare and uninsured patients were at for-profit hospitals, mostly in the Southeast and Midwest, the study said.
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New Jersey said that since April 2007, Advance Auto had violated a state "weights and measures" law intended to prevent overcharges at least 2783,211 times, while Pep Boys had violated the law at least 86 times.
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Reuters had reported in November that the Justice Department believed that S-Oil Corp and Hyundai Oilbank participated in a bid-rigging scheme that led to more than $100 million in overcharges to the U.S. military.
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For anyone who's ever been frustrated with fees or overcharges on bank account or credit card, the option to join a class-action lawsuit may become easier if the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has its way.
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A federal appeals court has reversed a decision that invalidated U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services criteria used to determine whether Medicare payments to hospitals for treating unusually expensive procedures should be recalculated for possible overcharges.
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Mind you, the court found Amex powerless on instincts like those, and it said it was better for society if Amex could unilaterally decide to fund consumer freebies with merchant overcharges, despite overwhelming traditional evidence of power.
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The answer is that it's not; the real answer is ISLAM, but the letter I floats just outside the grid above the letter S. Now move over to 4D, where the answer, as written in, is OVERCHARGES.
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The SEC said roughly 5,000 clients incurred more than $110 million of the overcharges when State Street tacked on markups for sending messages through SWIFT, a secured international payments network used by banks and other financial companies.
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Roughly 5,000 clients incurred more than $110 million of the overcharges when State Street quietly tacked on markups for sending messages through SWIFT, a secured international payments network used by banks and other financial companies, the SEC said.
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An opt-out class of merchants would be paid billions of dollars for supposed fee overcharges, and a substantially – but not entirely - overlapping class would receive the benefit of structural changes in the credit card companies' fee regimen.
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Shareholders sued Whole Foods after New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs revealed in June 2015 that all 80 prepackaged foods it tested from the retailer had mislabeled weights, with overcharges as high as $14.84 for coconut shrimp.
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That's important because it's not like payday lenders just send people a bill—they often have access to borrowers' bank accounts and can debit fees directly, risking overcharges (and, in turn, more fees) when people can least afford it.
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The plaintiffs said News Corp's anti-competitive conduct forced them to pay artificially high prices to promote such goods as Dial soap and Heinz ketchup, resulting in overcharges ranging from 29.9 percent to 39.6 percent from 2009 to 2016.
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Grassley said he learned of the large disparity between Mylan's settlement amount and the potential overpayment by taxpayers from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General after asking officials for an accounting of EpiPen overcharges.
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The group 340B Health, in a letter to the Justice Department, said that Mylan's alleged misclassifying of EpiPen as a generic drug instead of as a brand-name product "would likely have resulted in overcharges" to so-called 340B hospitals.
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Reuters reported in November that the Justice Department believed that S-Oil Corp, South Korea's No. 1.63 refiner, and Hyundai Oilbank also participated in a bid-rigging scheme that led to more than $100 million in overcharges to the U.S. military.
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Reuters reported in November that the Justice Department believed that S-Oil Corp, South Koreas No. 1.63 refiner, and Hyundai Oilbank also participated in a bid-rigging scheme that led to more than $100 million in overcharges to the U.S. military.
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"Bentham is determined to bring the opportunity to recover the overcharges to the attention of as many truck purchasers as it can and enable these victims of the cartel collectively to seek redress," said Bentham Europe's Chief Investment Officer Jeremy Marshall.
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They and others point out that the Trump administration's decision to allow weaker insurance plans has made more workers vulnerable to billing overcharges because they have much higher deductibles and less overall coverage than those protected under the Affordable Care Act.
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Because increases carry forward, the padded costs are now baked into the system, and have been compounded by years of annual rent increases, Craig and Buettner write: The sum total of the rent overcharges cannot be calculated from available records.
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Why it matters: When combined with similar lawsuits from employer groups, the suing parties are looking to recoup more than $10 billion in overcharges from this antitrust case — another in a long line of infamous "pay-for-delay" deals over generic drugs.
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BRASILIA, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Michel Temer will fire his special advisor Tadeu Filippelli after he was arrested on Tuesday as part of a police probe into suspected overcharges at a World Cup stadium, the presidential press office told Reuters on Tuesday.
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U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel rejected arguments that Whole Foods executives had to have known about the overcharges, and that they led to inflated financial results, misstatements about shoppers' "sentiment and tolerance" for its pricing, and a lower stock price once the truth became known.
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We don't know the precise estimates of these alleged overcharges industry-wide, but since the generic drug market totaled $2628 billion in sales during 28503, it's obvious that even a small price markup could result in billions of dollars in costs to taxpayers, insurers and patients.
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Of course, there are always some bad actors pirating content in the world, but their behavior isn't contingent upon whether the FCC approves a policy that saves cable customers up to $15 billion in overcharges and makes it easier for subscribers to control their own experience when accessing the programming they've paid for.
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Because of a lack of competition in this market, which is dominated by the likes of AT&T and other telecom giants, these businesses and institutions have been socked with billions of dollars of "overcharges" over the last decade, according to Chip Pickering, CEO of INCOMPAS, a tech industry trade group that has fought to reform the market for these so-called special access services.
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Navient had to "request that all three major credit bureaus delete negative credit history entries caused by the interest rate overcharges and improper default judgments".
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Ticketmaster conceded no wrongdoing but agreed to stop the practice; they also agreed to $1 million in refunds for overcharges for secondary market sales via TicketsNow.
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In December 1995, a government study concluded that 50–60% of all Adjustable Rate Mortgages in the United States contain an error regarding the variable interest rate charged to the homeowner. The study estimated the total amount of interest overcharged to borrowers was in excess of $8 billion. Inadequate computer programs, incorrect completion of documents and calculation errors were cited as the major causes of interest rate overcharges. No other government studies have been conducted into ARM interest overcharges.
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Cartel Overcharges, p. 249–387 of The Law and Economics of Class Actions, in Vol. 29 of Research in Law and Economics, edited by James Langenfeld (March 2014). Bingley, UK: Emerald House Publishing Ltd.
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GEO then divested the youth portion of the enterprise, Youth Services International (YSI), back to its principals. According to a 2013 HuffPost investigation, inmates held in facilities run by YSI "have frequently faced beatings, neglect, sexual abuse and unsanitary food over the past two decades." Due to audits findings of overcharges and reports of continuing abuse, the State of Florida cancelled its existing contracts with YSI, the remaining functional operation of CSC. The corporation was required to reimburse the state for $2,000,000 in overcharges.
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Facing pressure from a United States Marine's lawsuit over the violations, Chase announced that it would work to reverse the illegal foreclosures and was mailing $2 million to the 4,000 military families as compensation, implying the mortgage bank overcharged each family an average of $500 on their mortgage. Lawsuits regarding the overcharges are still pending as of January 2011. Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden sent a letter to several large lending institutions demanding they review their operations in order to safeguard active-duty military members from illegal mortgage overcharges and fraudulent foreclosures. Those institutions included Citigroup, Inc.
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Objective: To determine (1) whether five manufacturers of 11 prescription drugs sold them to 340B covered entities using the correct Medicaid rebate amount; and (2) the extent of any overcharges. Findings: The five manufacturers overcharged 340B covered entities an estimated $6.1 million for sales during the one-year period ending in September 30, 1999.OIG, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Overcharged 340B-Covered Entities, OIG (Washington, D.C.: March 2003). Recommendations: HRSA should require the five drug manufacturers identify the exact amounts of the overcharges for each of the affected 340B- covered entities and apply the overcharged amounts as offsets or credits to each entities future purchases.
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In addition, the city owed the company more than $5 million in tax overcharges. The United Steelworkers later successfully sued Bethlehem Steel for prematurely terminating the fringe benefits of the laid-off steelworkers."Bethlehem Steel Settles Lawsuit Over Benefits", Associated Press, March 13, 1985.
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Consumer L. Rev. 497, 504 (2005). Accordingly, wholesalers or retailers might be able to sue in federal court in a price- fixing case, even though they passed overcharges on to ultimate consumers,The Illinois Brick doctrine does not apply to actions in state court. California v.
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Retrieved 29 July 2013. BSoD on a Vélib' station in 2009. Timing differences of up to 30 minutes exist between clocks of different rental stations due to poor synchronisation, and may give rise to overbilling or underbilling. The mayor of Paris has given assurances that overcharges will be reimbursed.
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The company stated the overcharges were accidental and only amounted to a few dollars per customer. On February 4, 2010, 4chan began receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers that they were having difficulties accessing the site's image boards. Administrators of the site found that only traffic on port 80 to the boards.4chan.
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In September 1991, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study of Adjustable Rate Mortgages in the United States which found between 20% and 25% of the ARM loans out of the estimated 12 million at the time contained Interest Rate Errors. A former federal mortgage banking auditor estimated these mistakes created at least US$10 billion in net overcharges to American home-owners. Such errors occurred when the related mortgage servicer selected the incorrect index date, used an incorrect margin, or ignored interest rate change caps. In July 1994, Consumer Loan Advocates, a non-profit mortgage auditing firm announced that as many as 18% of Adjustable Rate Mortgages have errors costing the borrower more than $5,000 in interest overcharges.
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People without health insurance in the United States may receive benefits from patient-assistance programs such as Partnership for Prescription Assistance.How Can I Help Patients Get Their Medications? By Laura S. Lehman. Medscape Pharmacists July 20, 2011 Uninsured patients can also use a medical bill negotiation service, which can audit the medical bill for overcharges and errors.
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Walgreens was named in a lawsuit by the United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund in the Northern District Court of Illinois in January 2012. The suit alleges Walgreens and Par Pharmaceutical violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ActWalgreen, Par sued for alleged RICO violations, drug overcharges . IFAwebnews.com (January 24, 2012). Retrieved on September 5, 2013.
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" West's Encyclopedia of American Law, (2d ed. 2008). on behalf of their citizens. Previously, there was no practicable way for large numbers of individual persons harmed by such anticompetitive activities as small overcharges per person, to sue for damages; it was too costly."No one individual had a sufficient economic stake to bear the litigation burden necessary to maintain a private suit for recovery under section 4.
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After Billy disappears, J.D. sets out in search of him. He goes to Texas City and barges in on a city council meeting, wherein Trimmings' stooges boast of their booties. He befriends a waitress, a single mother, working at a diner which overcharges outsiders. After getting into a fight with the owner of the local wrecking yard and accidentally killing him, J.D. is arrested and sentenced to death by Judge Trimmings.
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An effective and realistic plan needs to be put into place that enforces wireless policy and controls usage, this is critical to control costs. This is the job of a telecom auditing team or TEM. They can concentrate on optimization, ongoing wireless management and contract management to reduce costs and provide a managed invoice service. TEM provides contract compliance monthly checks, which catch overcharges from tariffs, surcharges, and taxes.
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A $173 million settlement was reached with six international manufacturers of computer chips. The settlement resolved claims that the companies engaged in a price-fixing arrangement that cost government purchasers and consumers millions of dollars in overcharges for their chips. Cuccinelli and 32 other state attorneys general participated in the investigation and the settlement of a court case that was first filed in Court in 2006, before Cuccinelli took office.
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Investigations into the mismanagement of a highway garage and exorbitant prices paid for county office furniture to a Giambra campaign contributor preceded the 2005 budget problems. Then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer initiated a lawsuit against the furniture company for the overcharges. Some have accused Giambra of providing lucrative jobs to associates. His county staff measured 18, while Monroe County's executive had only four staffers and then downsized to three.
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The hospital provides various amenities to patients and visitors including a blood bank, 24-hr chemist, translators, cafeteria, waiting lounge, prayer room, bank/ATM, valet parking, business associates, TPAs and alliance partners. People have claimed that the centre overcharges for the people coming for medical check-up related to immigration and visa services as several people have been asked to go for medical tests again and again just to extort money from them.
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In December 2015, Bryndon Fisher, a Seattle resident, filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the Administrative Office of the United States Courts,Fisher v. United States, No. 15-1575, (Fed. Cl. September 26, 2016) alleging that PACER overcharges its subscribers by billing by the number of bytes generated instead of by page count, and by overcounting the number of bytes. The case remains pending Fisher v.
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Flywheel is a 2003 American Christian drama film about the unexpected pitfalls that a used car dealer experienced as he suddenly goes honest. The dealer intentionally overcharges his customers until reaching a turning point in his life where he decides to end his shady business practices and become a Christian. Alex Kendrick both directed the film and starred in the lead role, and with his brother, Stephen Kendrick, co-wrote the film. Flywheel also features Lisa Arnold and Tracy Goode.
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Levine dissolved the injunction, freed the plane, and became the first transcontinental air passenger, reaching Germany from New York in a flight two weeks following Lindbergh's. Meanwhile, the federal government sued Levine's companies, claiming overcharges for their salvage work."Levine to Take Up Government Claim," New York Times, 1927-10-27. Many lawsuits and prosecutions of Levine and his companies followed, including prosecutions for counterfeiting French coins,"Levine Out on Bail Furnished by Wife," New York Times, 1930-10-26.
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This occurs when the local government overcharges ratepayers for electric service and then transfers a percentage of the utility fee and charge proceeds to the general fund of the local agency to be spent at the discretion of local politicians. If the local agency also levies a utility users tax on electric service, then it may be a better option to pursue a compensatory initiative providing for the repeal or reduction of the utility users tax as it pertains to electric service.
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Dawisha p. 90 Later, Gorelov, Kolesnikov, and Shamalov used the funneled money, which they obtained as overcharges to Petromed, to purchase shares in Rossiya Bank, Vyborg Shipyard, and other entities. On 10 November 1996, he was a founding member of Vladimir Putin's closed gate community, the cooperative Ozero.Dawisha p. 97, 98, 165, 338 Alt URL As of 2016, Shamalov has remained a member of the cooperative Ozero. In 2004, he, Yuri Kovalchuk, and Dmitry Vladimirovich Gorelov became co-owners of Bank Rossiya.
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Ames got his brother Oliver Ames Jr. named president of the Union Pacific, while he himself became president of Crédit Mobilier. Ames then in turn gave stock options to other politicians while at the same time continuing the lucrative overcharges. The scandal was to implicate Vice President Schuyler Colfax (who was cleared) and future President James Garfield among others. The scandal broke in 1872 when the New York Sun published correspondence detailing the scheme between Henry S. McComb and Ames.
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On December 11, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the overcharges were unlawful. As stated by the Supreme Court of Canada in Confédération des syndicats nationaux v. Canada (Attorney General): :[96] For these reasons, I would therefore allow the appeals in part and declare that the versions of ss. 66.1 and 66.3 of the Employment Insurance Act that applied in 2002, 2003 and 2005 are invalid and that employers' and employees' premiums for 2002, 2003 and 2005 were collected unlawfully.
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Packer allowed Horne to hire various contributors including Bruce Beresford, Peter Coleman, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries, and James McAuley. Packer was later the talent manager for Humphries. In 1958 Packer had hired Francis James of Anglican Press to print The Observer but after three years and a run of "broken deadlines, overcharges, misprints, [and] slow deliveries" Horne and Packer had taken that job away. In 1960 ACP were involved in a commercial rivalry with Rupert Murdoch's News Limited, over interests in print media in Sydney.
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Schwartz was involved in litigation against Home Depot, defending Michael Davis, a whistleblower whom the company terminated. According to a May 18, 2007 story in the New York Post, Home Depot employees testified that employees were encouraged to routinely overcharge vendors for damaged or defective merchandise. It was revealed that Home Depot even established a quota of overcharges that employees had to meet. His most high- profile case before Home Depot was the probate case involving the estate of the late violinist Isaac Stern.
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President Bill Clinton in 1993 During his second term, the relationship between his re-election campaign and Management Systems of Illinois (MSI) came under federal scrutiny. MSI, Edgar's largest campaign contributor, was granted a contract that cost an estimated $20 million in overcharges. Edgar was never accused of wrongdoing, but he testified twice, once in court and once by videotape, becoming the first sitting Illinois governor to take the witness stand in a criminal case in 75 years. In those appearances, the governor insisted political donations played no role in who received state contracts.
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On September 10, 2020, Operation (Italian for "Surcharge") was launched in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro involving fraud by overcharges to Petrobras by employees of and kickbacks in the amount of 100 million reals ($ million). Federal Police issues 25 search warrants for foreign exchange transactions at Petrobras between 2008 and 2011. Petrobras said it was the victim, and that they were actively cooperating and provided the information to prosecutors that led to the warrants being issued. Also involved was Banco Paulista's forex transactions during the same period.
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In the late 1990s and 2000s, the Government of Canada illegally overcharged Canadians with respect to employment insurance premiums. The overcharges exceeded $40 billion. As noted by the Auditor General of Canada in her 2004 report: :Parliament did not intend, in my view, that the Account would accumulate a surplus beyond what could reasonably be spent for employment insurance purposes, given the existing benefit structure, while also providing for an economic downturn. Accordingly, in my opinion, the Government did not observe the intent of the Employment Insurance Act.
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In 2006, on his watch, BMO was forced to refund overcharges on mortgage payments of approximately $250 per customer. Comper stepped down on March 1, 2007, at BMO's annual meeting, but stayed on as an adviser until April 24, his 62nd birthday. This announcement came at the same time as BMO posted disappointing fourth quarter results, though they were record profits for the bank due to lower taxes and bad loans. He was succeeded by Bill Downe, who had been the frontrunner for the CEO position for the last few years, and formerly Chief Operating Officer of BMO.
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On June 30, 2011, AED signed a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in which it agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle false claims act allegations. According to the U.S. Government, AED had failed to provide proper oversight and management of USAID projects in the semi-autonomous tribal regions of Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan. As a result, the U.S. Government received substandard service and products at inflated prices. The Department of Justice also alleged that executives at the Washington, D.C., office of AED did not properly disclose information about overcharges and other financial mismanagement.
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After three months of negotiations, Tutor-Saliba Corporation filed a $19.3 million lawsuit against Westgate Resorts in May 2010, alleging that it was owed money for constructing the tower. Mark Waltrip, chief operating officer for Westgate Resorts, denied the allegation and said that Tutor-Saliba owed Westgate Resorts $18 million, "including overcharges, credits due for unperformed work, liquidated damages for untimely performance and failure to comply with the plans and specifications of the project." Waltrip also said, "We have exhausted every effort to work cooperatively with Tutor-Saliba to resolve these issues." The trial began in October 2012, and was expected to last four weeks.
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When the couple and delivery workers abandon the couch, Manuel sees it as a sign from God and decides that he and Dado bring it back to their dormitory. After a friend overcharges them for offering to deliver it on his truck and the local bus refuses to accommodate it, Dado and Manuel have no choice but to carry the couch on foot. In the middle of their journey, they cross a street when a drunk motorcyclist collides with the couch. The motorcyclist argues heavily with the duo until all three men are sent to the police station when the motorcyclist accidentally hits a policewoman with his helmet.
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The suit claimed that MetLife was improperly charging tenants "market rate" rents while at the same time receiving real estate tax benefits from the City of New York under the J-51 program, which requires property owners to maintain apartments as rent-stabilized during the period in which they are receiving benefits. The lawsuit asked for a monetary award of between $215 million and $320 million in rent overcharges and damages. Furthermore, it called for the market rate apartments to revert to rent stabilization until the expiration of the J-51 benefit period, sometime after 2017.Bagli, Charles V. "Suit Challenges Rent Jumps in Complexes MetLife Sold", The New York Times, January 23, 2007.
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Grunchlk is an unkempt and opportunistic swindler who runs a medical facility, played by Hugh Keays-Byrne. Grunchlk serves as the go- between for Diagnosans (to whom translator microbes are fatal) and patients, though he often overcharges the patients, occasionally against the Diagnosan's wishes. Grunchlk also keeps dying patients cryogenically frozen so that Diagnosans can use their parts in medical procedures, trapping them between life and death. On some occasions he freezes their family members as well, as seen with Jool and her cousins. Grunchlk is first seen in “Die Me, Dichtomy”, where Moya is brought to his facility to treat burn wounds she had sustained during the “Liar, Guns, and Money” three-parter.
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He worked as a reporter at The Atlanta Constitution, Birmingham Age-Herald / Birmingham Post-Herald, and The Tampa Tribune, gradually shifting to a focus on investigative reporting. Waldron was with the St. Petersburg Times in 1963, when he wrote a series of articles (a total of 150,000 words) as part of the newspaper's coverage of unchecked spending by the Florida Turnpike Authority (FTA). The FTA caused an estimated quadrupling of the cost to taxpayers, from initial estimates of $100 million. Waldron received a tip about excessive spending by FTA Chairman John Hammer, including allegations that he had paid for expensive hotels and meals, and corsages for his secretary, as well as overcharges for a chartered plane.
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Customers of DecorMyEyes posted numerous reports of receiving threats, abuse, poor service and overcharges on websites such as ResellerRatings, where DecorMyEyes has, as of October 29, 2010, a lifetime rating of 1.39/10 from 79 reviews. According to Borker, each bad review boosts his site's PageRank, meaning that the site comes top of Google's ratings for many of the products he sells. While a direct Google search for "DecorMyEyes" elicits the site and its many negative reviews, searching for individual products and brands does not. The reason, cited by an anonymous Google publicist, is that the large number of links to DecorMyEyes from consumer complaint sites such as Ripoff Report cause DecorMyEyes to rank high in Google search results.
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In response to the 1973 oil crisis, Congress passed the Department of Energy Organization Act in 1977, to consolidate various energy-related agencies into a Department of Energy. Congress insisted that a separate independent regulatory body be retained, and the FPC was renamed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), preserving its independent status within the Department.42 U.S.C. § 7134 Its most basic mandate was to “determine whether wholesale electricity prices were unjust and unreasonable and, if so, to regulate pricing and order refunds for overcharges to ratepayers.” FERC was also given added responsibility to hear appeals of DOE oil price control determinations and to conduct all "on the record" hearings for DOE.
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Oakes Ames Despite the transcontinental success and millions in government subsidies, the Union Pacific faced bankruptcy less than three years after the Last Spike as details surfaced about overcharges that Crédit Mobilier had billed Union Pacific for the formal building of the railroad. The scandal hit epic proportions in the 1872 United States presidential election, which saw the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant and became the biggest scandal of the Gilded Age. It would not be resolved until the death of the congressman who was supposed to have reined in its excesses but instead wound up profiting from it. Durant had initially come up with the scheme to have Crédit Mobilier subcontract to do the actual track work.
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The Israeli Chief Rabbinate's Kashrut has been a monopoly for many years, while many restaurants chafed under the rabbinate’s monopoly on kosher certification, complaining that the organization overcharges for its services and enforces a too-strict interpretation of Jewish law. In August 2012 the owner of the Jerusalem based restaurant Ichikidana refused to yield to new requirements of the Mashgiach Commissioner of the Chief Rabbinate, and a sign she hung explaining the matter to the dinners was posted on Facebook by one of the diners. After many shares, a Facebook group that gathers all restaurants that proclaim themselves as being "Kosher with No Certification" was established.Lidman, Melanie. (2012-10-31) Activists launch 'Kosher without Certification' – National News – Jerusalem Post. Jpost.com. Retrieved on 2015-05-10.
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In some situations, a local government may be legally allowed to transfer utility fee or charge proceeds to the general fund of the local agency to thereafter be spent at the discretion of local politicians. Such situations may include controversial reimbursements to the general fund for services and/or other benefits provided by the local government to the utility, and legally allowable return on investment (“profit”) utility fee overcharges for electrical or gas service which are not subject to the cost of service constitutional protections under Proposition 218.Cal. Const., art. XIII D, § 3, subd. (b). An example illustrating the foregoing involves the transfer of “profit” fees and charges by a local government in connection with the provision of electric service.
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In April 2020, a group of New Yorkers sued DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and Uber Eats, accusing them of using their market power monopolistically by only listing restaurants on their apps if the restaurant owners signed contracts which include clauses that require prices be the same for dine-in customers as for customers receiving delivery. The plaintiffs state that this arrangement increases the cost for dine-in customers, as they are required to subsidize the cost of delivery; and that the apps charge “exorbitant” fees, which range from 13% to 40% of revenue, while the average restaurant’s profit ranges from 3% to 9% of revenue. The lawsuit seeks treble damages, including for overcharges, since April 14, 2016 for dine-in and delivery customers in the United States at restaurants using the defendants’ delivery apps. The case is filed in the federal U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York as Davitashvili v GrubHub Inc.
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In April 2020, a group of New Yorkers sued Uber Eats along with DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, accusing them of using their market power monopolistically by only listing restaurants on their apps if the restaurant owners signed contracts which include clauses that require prices be the same for dine-in customers as for customers receiving delivery. The plaintiffs state that this arrangement increases the cost for dine-in customers, as they are required to subsidize the cost of delivery; and that the apps charge “exorbitant” fees, which range from 13% to 40% of revenue, while the average restaurant’s profit ranges from 3% to 9% of revenue. The lawsuit seeks triple damages, including for overcharges, since April 14, 2016 for dine-in and delivery customers in the United States at restaurants using the defendants’ delivery apps. The case is filed in the federal U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York as Davitashvili v GrubHub Inc.
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In April 2020, a group of New Yorkers sued DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and Uber Eats, accusing them of using their market power monopolistically by only listing restaurants on their apps if the restaurant owners signed contracts which include clauses that require prices be the same for dine-in customers as for customers receiving delivery. The plaintiffs state that this arrangement increases the cost for dine-in customers, as they are required to subsidize the cost of delivery; and that the apps charge “exorbitant” fees, which range from 13% to 40% of revenue, while the average restaurant’s profit ranges from 3% to 9% of revenue. The lawsuit seeks triple damages, including for overcharges, since April 14, 2016 for dine-in and delivery customers in the United States at restaurants using the defendants’ delivery apps. The case is filed in the federal U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York as Davitashvili v GrubHub Inc.
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In April 2020, a group of New Yorkers sued DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and Uber Eats, accusing them of using their market power monopolistically by only listing restaurants on their apps if the restaurant owners signed contracts which include clauses that require prices be the same for dine-in customers as for customers receiving delivery. The plaintiffs state that this arrangement increases the cost for dine-in customers, as they are required to subsidize the cost of delivery; and that the apps charge “exorbitant” fees, which range from 13% to 40% of revenue, while the average restaurant’s profit ranges from 3% to 9% of revenue. The lawsuit seeks triple damages, including for overcharges, since April 14, 2016 for dine-in and delivery customers in the United States at restaurants using the defendants’ delivery apps. The case is filed in the federal U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York as Davitashvili v GrubHub Inc.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is reviewing the findings, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to open an investigation on the matter, and both the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and the Massachusetts Public Utilities Department are launching inquiries of their own. On Feb. 27, 2018, FERC announced their investigation “revealed no evidence of anticompetitive withholding of natural gas pipeline capacity on Algonquin Gas Transmission by New England shippers.” It said that following an extensive review Commission staff “determined that EDF’s study was flawed and led to incorrect conclusions about the alleged withholding.” A class-action lawsuit filed on November 14, 2017 against Avangrid, Inc. and Eversource Energy claims the two companies caused electricity consumers to incur overcharges of $3.6 billion in a years- long scheme that impacted six states and affected 14.7 million people. The lawsuit states that 7.1 million retail electricity customers and an overall population of 14.7 million people have been affected by Eversource and Avangrid's “unique monopoly” spanning at least from 2013 to 2016.
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