The suit accuses Express Scripts of overcharging Anthem for drugs.
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But she doesn't rule out another potential thermal runaway cause: overcharging.
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Nubank also accuses the banks of overcharging fintechs for the services.
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Overcharging is like filling up a bucket with too much water.
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At first countries worried that unscrupulous brokers were overcharging for the reinsurance.
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That prevents problems caused by external heat, overcharging or an internal short.
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Subsequently, several Ola and Uber cabs have been impounded for overcharging customers.
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Google said that worrying about overcharging your phone is an "outdated" concern.
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Capella, which is located in Minnesota, later admitted to overcharging student lenders.
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Battery swelling can be caused by overcharging, overheating, and other damage that occurs.
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A battery manager also stops phones from overcharging after they've reached 100 percent.
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The government has curbed a once-common practice of overcharging patients for medicines.
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She was also due to attend hearings after being accused of overcharging customers.
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The lawsuit accuses the company of overcharging Medicare by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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How do I ensure I'm not getting underpaid, or overcharging a client for work?
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Overcharging worth 82 million euros ($91 million) may have taken place, the prosecutors said.
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Whole Foods has faced legal action in the past accusing the chain of overcharging customers.
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In the case of batteries, overcharging happens when too much lithium goes into the anode.
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Many also believed Wemba, despite his success, had been overcharging desperate migrants for their passage.
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She told ABC News that the explosion could have been caused by overcharging the device.
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The bureau has been investigating Santander, the giant Spanish bank, for overcharging auto loan customers.
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The law is also silent about what consequences a landlord would face for overcharging tenants.
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These online jewelry companies will help you make the decision without overcharging you in the process.
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The most common form of overcharging was not, as might be expected, taking a longer route.
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The lawsuit accuses Ticketmaster of misrepresenting its fees and overcharging customers who received tickets by mail.
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The government said last fall Mylan had misclassified the drug and was overcharging the Medicaid program.
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Just Wrong: A new report confirms that retailers are overcharging for wedding dresses, because they can.
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Malaysia had publicly slammed China for vastly overcharging on a showcase rail project, canceling the deal.
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In an official response, the university admitted to overcharging, but said it only improperly retained $278,883.
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Plus, there are safety features to protect kids from electric shock and your devices from overcharging.
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Trying to fight with a funeral home for overcharging family members to bury the loved ones.
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The bank has also landed in hot water for overcharging clients for a variety of other transactions.
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Serco has been accused of inadequately training its guards and overcharging the British government for substandard work.
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Apple meanwhile, has previously claimed that Qualcomm has been dramatically overcharging for the use of its patents.
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The miscalculation and subsequent overcharging of fees can often result from incorrect valuation, frequency and fee rates.
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Amazon has since pledged to crack down on price gouging and has suspended many sellers for overcharging.
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In 2015, the store was taken to task for systematically over-weighing and overcharging certain food items.
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The overcharging of customers for auto insurance was first reported by the New York Times on Thursday.
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Last year, the government sued UnitedHealth Group for allegedly overcharging Medicare by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Predatory companies have spent decades overcharging inmates and their families for phone calls and video conferencing services.
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Plus, you don't have to worry about overcharging, over-discharging, overcurrent, over-voltage, overheating, or short-circuiting.
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There have been reports of policemen hiding in coffins to catch gravediggers who are overcharging for burial plots.
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And the commercial approach was to rip off consumers by overcharging for stale content packaged into oversized bundles.
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Hong Kong this year introduced laws with heavier fines and three-year prison terms for recruiters overcharging helpers.
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Are there likely to be consequences for Sheriff Mike Andrews if the public concludes he's overcharging these protestors?
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This has forced the cost of hedging contracts above levels supported by fundamentals, "overcharging" investors looking to hedge.
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Much like the food sold at airports, the money exchange businesses found around airports are also overcharging you.
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Apple had sued Qualcomm in January alleging that it was overcharging for the chips used in their phones.
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In 2014, the Justice Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, fined Navient for illegally overcharging military members.
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Far more common is garden-variety exploitation — overcharging, skimming off the top, dumb deals done in good faith.
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Photo: GettyEpiPen manufacturer Mylan has been involved in a contentious legal case over its overcharging of the US government.
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Sharp price increases for the life-saving treatment spurred congressional, Justice Department and other government investigations of Medicaid overcharging.
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"People are either overcharging or undercharging for their work," said Surinder Paul, who runs one workshop in South Delhi.
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The NDRC also said it had already punished four Chinese utilities for overcharging on heating fees and gas prices.
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Apple believes Qualcomm is overcharging in chip royalties, while Qualcomm believes Apple's iPhone wouldn't be possible without its technology.
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The package giant UPS will pay the federal government $8.4 million to resolve overcharging allegations, the DOJ said Friday.
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Lissack's a former Smith Barney director who famously blew the whistle on his firm in 1994 for overcharging municipalities.
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The biggest advantage is that it prevents overcharging because it automatically disconnects when your phone gets back to 100%.
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Western Electric was overcharging AT&T, the government argued, and so was forcing telephone customers to pay higher rates.
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Some openly speculated about whether the company was simply overcharging or the price tag included kickbacks to Mr. Rajapaksa.
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They shouldn't have to fight to afford their drugs just so pharma executives can pocket another million by overcharging.
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Overcharging the battery — or charging it too fast — can cause a short-circuit that can lead to explosions and fires.
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The Justice Department has joined a 2011 lawsuit accusing UnitedHealth (UNH) of overcharging Medicare by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The chipmaker Qualcomm was found in May by a federal judge to have violated antitrust law for overcharging phone makers.
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There can be several causes for these incidents, including overcharging, a punctured battery pack, or even a bad USB cable.
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"These processes can happen even in a perfect battery," Shao-Horn said, referring to overcharging and anode on cathode contact.
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Harris would also seek to force companies to import lower-cost alternatives and investigate companies overcharging consumers for prescription drugs.
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AIG had sought about $2 billion from Coventry First for overcharging it for life insurance policies acquired from elderly people.
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"So I decided to make them and give them away for free because this overcharging is something I can't stand."
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He said that telecommunications companies "have been overcharging for many years," often raking in margins of 80 percent or more.
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It asked a federal court in California for $1 billion in promised rebates and accused Qualcomm of overcharging for chips.
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AMP is also facing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of pension fund account holders claiming overcharging of fees.
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In 22016, it was caught overcharging clients on currency trades and improperly charging homebuyers to lock into low mortgage rates.
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Apple sued Qualcomm last January, accusing it of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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In December, the supermarket chain agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement after being accused of overcharging its New York City customers.
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That the Note7s didn't explode suggests the battery controllers were working properly to regulate power and prevent overcharging and, thus, overheating.
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This isn't something you risk from keeping your phone plugged in all night — most batteries are designed to automatically prevent overcharging.
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Prosecutors often relish the opportunity to try a celebrity, and their concerns about "celebrity justice" criticism push them toward overcharging cases.
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Apple had filed the lawsuit accusing Qualcomm of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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"Ho said that "when the phone's battery reaches 100%, the phone's internal battery charger will actually stop charging to prevent overcharging.
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Democrats did not have a clear response to this idea that the government was basically overcharging taxpayers and cuts were needed.
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Investigators started looking more closely at its books, which lead to a $465 million settlement with the federal government for overcharging Medicaid.
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It also incorrectly classified the EpiPen as a generic drug rather than a brand-name, which led to the company overcharging Medicaid.
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Luna has his doubts that the businesses inside, such as selling protection for inmates and overcharging for food and basics, have disappeared.
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Undermining, taking advantage of, overcharging, targeting, being unfair is not okay for any business, and certainly it's not okay for the banks.
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Naval investigators had been probing whether Francis -- known as "Fat Leonard" -- was overcharging the Navy for ship fueling, repairs and other services.
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One of their demands is an immediate end to the racial overcharging, over-sentencing and parole denials of black and brown humans.
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He listens as library users raise issues of weighty and unbookish substance, such as the overcharging of African-Americans for ordinary foodstuffs.
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But federal Medicare officials and investigators at the Department of Justice are concerned the industry is overcharging taxpayers to run the program.
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The most basic form, Ash told CNBC last week, was scammers misrepresenting standard gold bullion coins as rare and overcharging unwitting investors.
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He also criticized the company's $465 million settlement with the Department of Justice over claims it was overcharging Medicaid for the device.
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Each has been made to pay more than $20113 million for overcharging their drivers, according to the New York State attorney general.
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The companies had been locked in a dispute since last year, when Anthem sued Express Scripts, accusing it of overcharging for drugs.
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National Australia Bank had also admitted to overcharging customers due to incorrect calculations of interest rates and double-charging fees, he added.
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It only takes a few minutes to peruse customer reviews for red flags, such as long repair times, unfriendly staff, or overcharging.
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The battered lender was accused of overcharging hundreds of thousands of homeowners for appraisals made when borrowers fell behind on their loans.
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On Monday, the Royal Commission heard examples of possible misconduct by insurance companies, including spying on policyholders, overcharging customers and misleading sales calls.
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Apple filed antitrust lawsuits against Qualcomm in China and America that accuse the chip-design company of overcharging for its intellectual-property licences.
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Between December 2016 and February 2018, prosecutors say Parmar changed the destinations of Uber passengers on at least 11 occasions, overcharging the customers.
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According to emails reviewed by ProPublica, at least one of the inauguration's planners was concerned that the Trumps were overcharging for the venue.
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"Sooo......I'm recused, but when people accuse us of overcharging cases ...16 counts on a class 4 (felony) becomes exhibit A," she wrote.
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The iPhone maker sued Qualcomm in January, accusing it of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $0.73 billion in promised rebates.
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To top it all off, media buyers have also been allegedly overcharging advertisers by lying about how much the placements have been costing.
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The iPhone maker sued Qualcomm in January, accusing it of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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He has described himself as an "enemy" of high interest rates and railed at banks for what he views as overcharging for credit.
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In addition, the order activates North Carolina's price-gouging law, which prohibits "overcharging in a time of crisis," according to the press release.
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Its built-in 5,200mAh battery delivers all the juice you need to all of your devices without fear of overcharging or short-circuiting.
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It works with practically any device you own and can juice up four gadgets at once without the fear of overcharging or overheating.
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Hospices are cashing in on inaccurate billing, patient referral kickbacks, overcharging and billing for higher-level, more expensive care than is truly needed.
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There had long been accounts of people scamming the government in one way or another -- contractors overcharging, politicians on the take, crooked cops.
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The report noted over 4,000 instances of consumers filing complaints against AT&T regarding deals, promotion and overcharging over the last two years.
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After all, we often reflexively assume that when businesses make more money, they do so at our expense, that is, by overcharging us.
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After inquiries from government agencies, Wells Fargo began probing its wealth and investment management division for possible customer abuse, including overcharging and inappropriate referrals.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Legere held a press conference to promote T-Mobile's vision, and call out competitors who he argued are overcharging.
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A top inaugural planner emailed Ivanka and others at the company to "express my concern" that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces.
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Mega-popular fitness trainer Kayla Itsines is under fire from some of her 4.4 million Instagram fans for allegedly overcharging for her workout app.
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But the real key was taking on an established industry that had been overcharging for generations, and making the product cheaper and more convenient.
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Plus, its Smart Charge Technology will make sure each one is being replenished at top speed, without any danger of overcharging or shorting out.
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Apple Inc sued the chipmaker in January, accusing Qualcomm of overcharging for its chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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The controversial proposal has been prompted by long-running complaints about poor services and bad driver behaviour such as refusing a hire or overcharging.
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UTC is one of some two dozen engineering companies accused of price fixing and overcharging state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA for work.
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The British government said in 2014 that G4S would repay $181 million for overcharging it on a contract to tag criminals with monitoring devices.
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Using one product to subsidise another is how the banks got into the untransparent state they're in – offering free current accounts and overcharging elsewhere.
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Prosecutors suspect it of systematically overcharging for posters, fliers and the like sold in campaign "kits" — and then, milking giant reimbursements from the state.
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The toy train attracted unwanted tabloid headlines, such as " Boo-hoo over 2 m Choo-choo, " after Mercer sued the manufacturer for overcharging him.
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Its built-in 5,200mAh battery can deliver all the juice you need to keep your devices alive without fear of overcharging or short-circuiting.
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The company has faced backlash in recent years due to concerns about slowing sales, health scares and accusations that the grocery chain was overcharging customers.
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Brafman has also accused Vance of defective grand jury proceedings, attempting to prosecute crimes that are past the statute of limitations, and overcharging his client.
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And a lot of people aren't mindful of the voltage they're charging their batteries at—which can lead to overcharging and, again, accidental thermal runaway.
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Chief executive officers at all four banks made appearances at a Parliamentary inquiry this week, bearing apologies for overcharging customers and giving bad financial advice.
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Apple initially sued Qualcomm in early 2017 for allegedly overcharging to use its LTE modems, which are essential to helping smartphones connect to the internet.
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Quantifying how many employment agencies in Hong Kong engage in illegal activity—which can range from overcharging to colluding with loan sharks—is nearly impossible.
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AMP said it would defend itself against a new class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of pension fund account holders and claiming overcharging of fees.
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Swan noted his party was seeking a royal commission into the sector's behavior after a series of scandals, including overcharging customers and out-sized bonuses.
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The iPhone maker sued Qualcomm in January, accusing the chipmaker of overcharging for its chips and refusing to pay some $22016 billion in promised rebates.
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"A lot of people see themselves as loyal customers and because the companies know that they're loyal ... they are overcharging them," Clark told Sky News.
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In the lawsuit, Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging for its chips and for refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates for chip purchases.
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"The two major causes of dramatic failures with the larger units are overcharging of the battery and then the shorting of the battery," Kiklas said.
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Sometimes, they'll "forget" to turn on the meter or claim it's broken before overcharging unsuspecting tourists who don't know how much a ride should cost.
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"The Committee urges Ofgem to be faster and more proactive in using its extensive powers to protect consumers from overcharging in the future," it said.
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Energy bills have doubled in Britain over the past decade to about 1,200 pounds ($1,640) a year, leading to allegations that utilities were overcharging customers.
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This is the first such action against a company for overcharging since the price cap on default energy bills came into force on Jan. 1.
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COPENHAGEN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Denmark's Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) has reported Danske Bank to the police for overcharging customers, the financial watchdog said on Friday.
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The rule allows the government to punish drug companies that "knowingly and intentionally" overcharge customers with fines up to $5,000 for each instance of overcharging.
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Starbucks has won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing the coffee chain of overcharging customers by underfilling lattes and mochas to reduce milk costs.
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They include efforts to adjust US drug prices based on the prices in other developed countries and strong penalties if companies are overcharging US consumers.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also fined Flynn Pharma 5.2 million pounds for overcharging for phenytoin sodium capsules, following a dramatic price hike in 2012.
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" According to ProPublica, Ivanka and other Trump employees were emailed by "a top inaugural planner" expressing concern "that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces.
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He said his office received more than 5,000 complaints since the hurricane, many related to alleged overcharging or price-gouging for fuel, shelter, food, and water.
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In those lawsuits, Apple claimed that Qualcomm had been significantly overcharging for the use of basic patents and generally abusing its position as a market leader.
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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).
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Odebrecht has been accused by prosecutors of overcharging state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA and other state companies for contracts and paying bribes to politicians.
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A series of articles in The Times last year found that prohibiting class-action lawsuits typically results in consumers simply giving up in cases of overcharging.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also fined Flynn Pharma 237.6 million pounds for overcharging for phenytoin sodium capsules, following a dramatic price hike in 2012.
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NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. regulator sued online lender Lending Club Corp on Wednesday for allegedly overcharging consumers and misleading them on hidden fees.
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To help avoid vape device explosions, the FDA warns users against overcharging batteries or using a charger other than the one that came with the device.
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"There are no ethics valves built into the system that prevent an airline from overcharging during a hurricane," said Christopher Elliott, a consumer advocate and journalist.
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We need uniform protocols that make it easy for pharmacies to deliver services closest to the patients affected without delay, bureaucracy, overcharging or unreliable, risky ways.
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Ohio officials said they wanted to know whether the benefit managers had been overcharging the state, but were frustrated in trying to obtain drug pricing information.
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The background: Apple sued Qualcomm for $1 billion in January, saying the chipmaker was overcharging for use of its patented technology and failing to make required payments.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian consumer group Codacons has filed a complaint with the national competition watchdog accusing Starbucks of overcharging customers at its first cafeteria in the country.
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According to ProPublica, even before the inauguration, there were already concerns being raised internally about whether the Trump Organization was overcharging the inaugural committee for event space.
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Apple is suing Qualcomm for $1 billion, saying that the mobile chip maker has been dramatically overcharging it for the use of basic patents, according to CNBC.
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One of the drafted lawsuits is against Santander bank and accuses the Spanish lender of overcharging borrowers on auto loans in the United States, Reuters has reported.
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Maduro's government, which often blames shortages and inflation on unscrupulous businesses overcharging or hoarding products, in August lifted a prohibition on the free exchange of hard currency.
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But Itsines' public relations manager, Bec Sealey, told The Courier Mail that they have not heard any complaints about the app overcharging users or exposing private information.
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The Royal Commission last month criticised pension funds run by two of Australia's largest banks, National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank, for regulatory breaches including overcharging customers.
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This proposal effectively undoes policies intended to prevent overcharging and balance billing, which previously led to excess charges and caused seniors to go without needed care. 2.
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In December it was fined 26 million pounds ($37 million), the largest ever fine for a British power utility, after overcharging customers and improperly handling customer complaints.
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Dozens of engineering firms are being investigated for price-fixing contracts and overcharging state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to gain funds used to bribe politicians.
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The overcharging scheme at the asset manager firm began in 2010 and involved "transition management" services for institutional investors that were changing fund managers or investment strategies.
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McKinsey's spokesman said the firm's work had aimed to identify where detention-center contractors were overcharging ICE — long a concern of watchdog agencies — and to propose remedies.
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The new version is fully compatible with USB Type-C industry standards, can charge 20 percent faster than Quick Charge 3.0, and comes with new protections against overcharging.
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The Consumer Council argued the case had implications beyond the specific claim against DNB, saying it could help protect people's savings and pensions from overcharging in the future.
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This can include tax and legal services, compliance, cyber-security and monitoring invoices (yacht firms are notorious for overcharging if they think bills will not face close scrutiny).
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They masked the lower buy-in price for the device by overcharging customers with higher rates on their phone bills, charging for minutes, text messages, and data plans.
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State Street was accused of overcharging clients by more than $170 million, beginning in 1998 and lasting into 2015, for expenses related to its custody of client assets.
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Qualcomm is fighting a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc, which has accused the company of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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Some of Brazil's largest construction companies, such as Odebrecht and Andrade Gutierrez, have been accused of overcharging Petrobras for work and passing on kickbacks to executives and politicians.
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The lab has had to strike a difficult balance of finding start-ups that want to serve low-income people without overcharging them and making their problems worse.
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In corporate news, Hong Kong's securities regulator announced Monday that it has fined Swiss lender UBS $51.09 million for overcharging up to 5,000 clients for nearly a decade.
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Apple filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Qualcomm in January 2017, accusing the chipmaker of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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"The practice of overcharging loyal customers is widespread and Citizens Advice has repeatedly warned that loyal consumers are being ripped off," said Citizens Advice Chief Executive Gillian Guy.
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The consumer council said the case has implications beyond the specific claim against DNB and could help to protect people's savings and pensions from overcharging in the future.
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Ms. Liu and her colleagues said their employer had been paying them less than the legal minimum wage for overtime, and had been overcharging them for company housing.
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The suit is one of at least 11 lawsuits that have been filed against major financial firms since a public inquiry uncovered widespread misconduct including alleged overcharging of fees.
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But the worst part of this is that these pop-ups, which are basically Google stores in the minds of visitors, are overcharging people for the new Google phones.
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Mike Rothenberg, infamous Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Rothenberg Ventures, has been formally charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for overcharging investors to fund personal projects.
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Mylan Agrees to Pay $465 Million for Ripping Off Medicare on EpiPens, Stock Price SoarsMylan, the drug company that makes EpiPen, has been overcharging Medicare and Medicaid for years.
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But Mylan, the makers of EpiPen, has been overcharging the government for the life-saving allergy medication by misclassifying it as a generic, rather than a name brand drug.
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Starbucks was accused of overcharging customers by systematically serving lattes that are 25 percent too small, based on a recipe it adopted in 2009 to save money on milk.
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Levine accuses John and Kristine Woodward of overcharging her for the purchase or joint purchase (with the gallery as co-owner) of more than $1 million worth of art.
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Some industry experts, however, said it was illogical to suggest that Facebook was overcharging in data — because consumer data does not have a face value like a dollar bill.
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The bank had said in March it was examining its wealth and investment management division for possible customer abuse, including overcharging and inappropriate referrals, after inquiries from government agencies.
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However, Wong also agreed that the introduction of franchised taxis would not help resolve the existing problems of the taxi trade such as rude cabbies, overcharging and refusing hires.
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For as beautiful as the Pro Stand is, it still feels like Apple is once again dramatically overcharging for something basic based on the strength of their brand name.
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Previously the phone appeared to be melting and cracking while charging, possibly because of impurities in the lithium ion material used in a battery, or poor management of overcharging.
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A WNYC/ProPublica investigation also found that at least one inaugural committee planner raised concerns that the Trump Organization may have been overcharging them for use of the hotel.
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But ensuring hospitals comply with the price caps has been a challenge, and the NPPA has earlier disclosed cases where hospitals were found to be overcharging, despite price caps.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed to lawmakers that Mylan, the drug company that makes EpiPen, has been overcharging the government for the life-saving allergy medication.
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Meanwhile, online retailers are playing a game of whack-a-mole to remove listings making misleading claims about the coronavirus or overcharging for products that have spiked in demand.
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This past May, TIAA agreed to pay $5 million to settle the plaintiffs' allegations that the company breached its fiduciary duty by overcharging its workers in their retirement plan.
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By overcharging for the drug and neglecting to market it, Valeant has undercut the commercial success of the drug, called Addyi, Bloomberg reported, citing a letter from Sprout shareholders.
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Lukashenko complained that Moscow had also threatened to cut oil exports to Belarus by half to 12 million tonnes a year and said Russia was overcharging for its gas.
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In April 2018, the bank was fined $1 billion by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the OCC over forcing customers to buy car insurance and overcharging on mortgage fees.
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The complaint is the latest regulatory action to review claims of overcharging at Boston-based State Street, one of the world's largest custody banks that handles trades for big investors.
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Citron Research's Andrew Left, who gained notoriety for successful bets against companies like Valeant Pharmaceuticals, said he is shorting Motorola Solutions because the communications equipment maker is overcharging law enforcement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government has a duty to act to stop energy companies taking advantage of their loyal customers by overcharging them, business minister Greg Clark said on Thursday.
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The new agreements also come after a government-mandated inquiry last year revealed widespread misconduct in the insurance industry, such as spying on customers, misleading marketing practices, and fee overcharging.
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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).
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The Russian state-controlled company has been accused of overcharging customers and blocking rivals in eastern Europe, practices which the European Commission say breach the bloc's rules on fair play.
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After a summer of bad headlines, Congressional testimony, and agreements to pay back millions to the government, the Pentagon is looking at how much Mylan has been overcharging since 2008.
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According to the Roosevelt Institute's report, overcharging—that is, revenue over and above what a provider would make in a competitive market—represents nearly 25 percent of household communications bills.
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The big four banks - Westpac, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and National Australia Bank - have admitted to other transgressions, including fraudulent loans and overcharging customers.
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Prosecutors are unraveling a scheme they say involved engineering companies overcharging Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the company is formally known, and used the excess funds to bribe executives and politicians.
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The Norwegian Consumer Council argued the case held importance far beyond the specific claim against DNB, as it could help protect people's savings and pensions from overcharging in the future.
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He told MI6 the identity of certain officers who were overcharging for procurements and inventing fictitious budget items, then distributing a cut to senior officers who served as their protectors.
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And he seemed genuinely taken with the product, saying the state would be capable of making 100,000 gallons per week and warning online retailers again that they should stop overcharging.
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Last year, the two companies engaged in a bitter legal battle in which Anthem sued Express Scripts for $15 billion and claimed the company had been overcharging it for drugs.
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The finance minister said the lending cap as it stood now was "not sustainable" and the government was working on ways to prevent what he termed "unscrupulous" lenders from overcharging.
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Mike Rothenberg, a venture capitalist who gained a reputation for throwing lavish parties, has been charged by the SEC for overcharging investors and using that money for his personal endeavors.
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The regional organization settled with a U.S. travel agency, Cartan Tours, that had been overcharging for services as part of a kickback scheme, in order to avoid excessive litigation costs.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived a class action lawsuit accusing pharmacy chain CVS Health Corp of systematically overcharging people who bought generic drugs using insurance rather than cash.
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"These companies are wildly overcharging for drugs that could save lives, at prices that can't be afforded by the NHS," said Dan Glass, who is facilitating the ACT UP meeting today.
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If the iPhone owners win Monday's fight, they will have to prove in a district court battle that Apple has a monopoly that has led to overcharging, which Apple vigorously denies.
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Former logistics project lead Christopher Lane pleaded guilty to a separate bribery scheme involving overcharging and Colin Bagwell, another FH Bertling manager, was convicted by the jury of the same offence.
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Apple, in suing Qualcomm, thinks the company is nonetheless overcharging for use industry standard patents, which the law requires be licensed out on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (or "FRAND") terms.
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In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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It is the latest in a number of hefty antitrust penalties levied by various jurisdictions on Qualcomm, which is also tussling with Apple for allegedly overcharging for its intellectual-property licences.
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By Nate Raymond A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit accusing pharmacy chain CVS Health Corp of systematically overcharging people who bought generic drugs using insurance rather than cash.
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Things between the ranch and the saucemaker started to go sideways after the 2016 harvest, when Huy Fong accused Underwood of overcharging the company $1.45 million, and refusing to repay it.
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Gazprom, which supplies about a third of the EU's gas, mostly across Ukraine, is the target of an EU antitrust investigation for allegedly overcharging customers in Eastern Europe and thwarting rivals.
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In the Nepali government investigation that led to the new rules for trekking companies, the report accused both Flight Connection International and Swacon of producing fraudulent invoices and overcharging insurance companies.
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When a government employee personally profits by denying necessary medical treatment, providing substandard facilities or overcharging for services, he is called corrupt and open to criminal charges of bribery or embezzlement.
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Ireland's government warned last week that it will penalise the banks, including potentially raising taxes on the sector, if the lenders did move faster to provide compensation for the "scandalous" overcharging.
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In an apparent countermove to DC Republicans, national Democrats are backing a group running ads hitting Jenkins for his past entanglements with overcharging health insurers and mocking Morrisey as a carpetbagger.
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The Russian state-controlled company is fighting accusations of overcharging customers and blocking rivals in eastern Europe, practices which the European Commission say breach the bloc's rules ensuring a level playing field.
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Some of this change is inevitable; even if we don't manage to completely melt all of Greenland's ice shelf by running our air conditioning and overcharging our phones, we're still pretty screwed.
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The energy market, dominated by the "big six" of SSE, EDF, Npower, E.ON, Scottish Power and British Gas (now owned by Centrica), has often been criticised by politicians and regulators for overcharging.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Runaway "bride prices" are making marriage unaffordable in rural China and need to be capped, and professional matchmakers should be stopped from overcharging, says a village delegate to China's parliament.
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Time Warner Cable must know it, too, because in my recent experience, the company's swindled me out hundreds of dollars by overcharging me for service that's been dependably slow but hardly dependable.
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The news of Mylan overcharging the government came out Wednesday on the heels of revelations that Mylan CEO Heather Bresch had lied to Congress about how much the company makes per EpiPen.
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In that lawsuit, which is pending before Judge Ramos, Anthem claimed Express Scripts was overcharging it by $3 billion a year and sought to be let out of its 10-year contract.
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The firms were also found to have engaged in "reverse churning": overcharging clients who trade infrequently by sticking them in accounts with inclusive wrap fees that cover trading costs and advisory services.
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Toyota Motor Credit said it will cap how much dealerships can mark up interest rates and set aside $2 million to compensate new borrowers until it can put in controls against overcharging.
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The company is also fighting a lawsuit by U.S. prosecutors who allege its sale force ran a decade-long doctor kickback scheme involving sham events that led to overcharging the federal government.
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And he caused a stir when he accused members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries of overcharging the U.S. for oil while they accept American military protection free of charge.
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Days later, Apple sued Qualcomm for $1 billion, accusing it of overcharging for chips and withholding promised rebates because of Apple's discussions with South Korea's antitrust regulators in their probe of Qualcomm.
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The iPhone maker sued Qualcomm earlier this year, accusing it of overcharging for chips, and had asked its contract manufacturers to withhold license payments from the company while the dispute played out.
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It can handle DMV paperwork for you, write legal letters to scare businesses out of overcharging you and it provides a credit card that automatically cancels subscriptions when your free trial ends.
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Mr. Rybolovlev and Mr. Bouvier are embroiled in a long-running lawsuit in which the Swiss businessman is accused of fraudulently overcharging the Russian collector for 38 artworks, including the Rothko abstract.
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The Swiss drugmaker is fighting a widening lawsuit by U.S. prosecutors who allege its sales force ran a decade-long doctor kickback scheme involving sham events that led to overcharging the federal government.
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It's the latest in a series of lawsuits between the two companies, which kicked off back in January when Apple sued Qualcomm and accused the chip maker of overcharging for use of patents.
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But as recently as last month, the bank also said it was examining its wealth and investment management business for possible customer abuse, including overcharging and inappropriate referrals, after inquiries from government agencies.
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According to AP tech writer Youkyung Lee, Samsung plans to release a software update in South Korea for the Note7 that will limit its charging to 60 percent to prevent overheating from overcharging.
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Serco has suffered in recent years following problems with government contracts that included overcharging the British government for monitoring criminals and escalating costs on a deal to provide accommodation to UK asylum seekers.
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The inquiry will examine 10 case studies over the coming days, including incidents of overcharging customers, poor product disclosure and inadequate handling of insurance claims, said Rowena Orr, a lawyer assisting the inquiry.
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"It's no surprise that cable monopolies, which thrive on overcharging consumers for renting boxes, haven't followed though on their commitment to an open set-top box world," says Gene Kimmelman from Public Knowledge.
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HONG KONG, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's securities regulator on Wednesday said it has fined French lender BNP Paribas' wealth management arm HK$4 million ($516,000) for overcharging clients between 2011 and 2013.
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Bank of New York Mellon has been hit with a proposed class action accusing it of skimming millions of dollars from its customers by overcharging for currency conversions for American Depository Receipt dividends.
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Go deeper: The White House is unhappy with private equity's surprise medical billing ads Pharmacies sue drugmakers for overcharging diabetes pill Physician staffing firm has sued thousands of Tennessee patients for medical debt
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With prices rocketing in Aleppo, opposition authorities were seeking to ration consumption to prevent hoarding and prevent traders from overcharging, said Brita Hagi Hassan, president of the city council for opposition-held Aleppo.
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Apple's original suit against Qualcomm was filed in January this year in the United States, and claimed $1 billion from the chipmaker, arguing that it had been drastically overcharging for the use of patents.
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Once again, President-elect Donald Trump shook the business world with a tweet blasting another industry for overcharging the government — and Cramer is concerned about the risk that it could bring to your portfolio.
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DAVID FABER: Steve, does this take it all off the table in terms of those who accuse the company of overcharging and linking chip sets to intellectual property in a way that was inappropriate?
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That's because the investment to improve battery quality needs to be factored in, while the cars also need sophisticated battery management systems to prevent overheating and overcharging - adding thousands of dollars to their cost.
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Of course, Airbnb will have to keep an eye out for locals overcharging for rooms, as it had to do during the Super Bowl earlier this year in California and at other large events.
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Sanofi-Pasteur, the company's vaccine division, had told the Veterans Affairs (VA) Department in 2012 that it had made an accounting error in overcharging for certain drugs, the Justice Department said in a statement.
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Hoechlin and his roomie, Ryan Guzman -- the hot dude from J Lo's "The Boy Next Door" -- are suing their landlord for overcharging them for what they call ... "normal wear and tear" on their crib.
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The tax hike, effective from Thursday, also comes as prices of luxury cars have been falling steadily in China, in part due to consumer criticism that global car brands have been overcharging Chinese buyers.
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It was the fourth week of testimony before the Senate panel, which is trying to nail down reports that for decades, the electric authority was buying cheap, dirty fuel and overcharging customers for it.
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Manchin's "deep ties to a controversial drugmaker who's being sued for pushing opioids into poor communities and overcharging families for epipens... [is] his single biggest liability," said one GOP operative familiar with midterm strategy.
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The CMA said it wanted companies to be publicly held to account for overcharging existing customers and that regulators should publish the size of loyalty penalties in key markets and for each supplier annually.
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Madden's reform efforts mirrored other bipartisan initiatives to reduce the cost of prisons across America: more diversion programs, more granting parole to older offenders, and more encouraging prosecutors to stop overcharging for nonviolent crimes.
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From the FCC's historically-unpopular attack on net neutrality to its defense of prison telco monopoly overcharging, being a genuine consumer ally isn't something the agency is likely to be accused of anytime soon.
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The letter comes as Amazon, Walmart and other e-commerce companies have struggled to curb third-party sellers who are overcharging for products that have spiked in demand amid the spread of the coronavirus.
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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.
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It has also been a target of bipartisan anger over actions ranging from charging hundreds of thousands of people for auto insurance they didn't need to overcharging members of the military to refinance mortgages.
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He accuses health insurers of "overcharging" customers so they can make "whopping profits" in the individual market — absent any evidence of this happening, and regardless of Obamacare regulations that prohibit this type of behavior.
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Once again, President-elect Donald Trump shook the business world with a tweet blasting another industry for overcharging the government — and Jim Cramer is concerned about the risk that it could bring to your portfolio.
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However, he defended overcharging the refugees because, he said, the tickets needed to be transferable and refundable as European authorities often left it until the very last moment before asking refugees if they could fly.
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"One day she came to me and she was really agitated and she said she had been suspicious lately about the rent that we had been paying," meaning the landlord was overcharging them, Nixon says.
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A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit that accused the Whole Foods Market supermarket chain of overcharging shoppers in New York City by overstating the weight of prepackaged foods it sold.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co executives were warned that an auto insurance plan could be overcharging customers four years before the bank scrapped the program, according to a complaint released by a judge this week.
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TOKYO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Japan's top advertising agency, Dentsu Inc, admitted on Friday to overcharging its clients and falsifying the impact of its digital ads in inappropriate transactions involving more than 100 clients in Japan.
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Qualcomm has been a supplier of components to Apple for years, but the relationship soured last year when Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging for chips and refused to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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Smartphone companies like Apple, Samsung, and LG aren&apost too bothered about whether you charge your phone overnight, and Google says most phones have systems in place to protect your phone&aposs battery from overcharging.
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In its latest shot at competitor Verizon, Sprint decided to open up a unique pop-up shop in Queens called "Twice the Price," which essentially trolls Verizon's prices by overcharging for all of the featured items.
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A decade ago Ireland faced the costliest bank bailout in the euro zone after the bursting of a credit-fuelled property bubble and more recently began punishing lenders for overcharging tens of thousands of mortgage customers.
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It also criticized the big six energy companies for overcharging customers, who can pay as much as 300 pounds a year more than those on cheaper tariffs, and Ofgem for being slow and reluctant to act.
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As of Friday afternoon, Texas authorities had received 20113,992 complaints about price gouging and fraud, with 636 of the complaints about gas stations overcharging customers, said Jennifer Speller, a spokeswoman for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged venture capitalist Mike Rothenberg with "overcharging investors to fund personal projects, including sending millions of dollars to his own virtual reality production company," according to a press release.
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Javier Paulino, a former Bloomberg manager, pleaded guilty in July to bribetaking and stealing more than $1 million by overcharging for work done at Bloomberg offices, or charging the company for work that was never done.
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The central bank imposed the unprecedented cap as a penalty for sales practices and abuses at Wells Fargo, including the opening millions of phony accounts and overcharging customers on products ranging from mortgages to auto loans.
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In 2014, the company paid $60 million to settle an investigation by the Justice Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, alleging that the company had been illegally overcharging military families as far back as 2005.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 14 billion pound ($18 billion) class action lawsuit against MasterCard for allegedly overcharging more than 45 million people in Britain over a 16-year period was blocked by a British court on Friday.
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A federal judge has agreed to expand the number of CVS Health customers covered by a class action lawsuit accusing the pharmacy chain of systematically overcharging people who bought generic drugs using insurance rather than cash.
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Trump accused Mayor Jacob Frey of overcharging the arena in downtown Minneapolis for services during Trump's rally, scheduled for Thursday night, alleging that the mayor doesn't want the president to speak in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.
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We should note, as Oliver did, that the company has paid close to $1 billion over the last five years to settle allegations including paying doctors kickbacks in exchange for referrals and overcharging Medicare for medicine.
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Fianna Fail finance spokesman Michael McGrath said banks had to fully deal with a years-long mortgage overcharging scandal and parliament introduce laws to make senior bankers accountable for such failings before he would consider the matter.
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Six months ago, the Department of Health and Human Services said it would delay, yet again, an Affordable Care Act regulation that would fine drug companies for "knowingly and intentionally" overcharging hospitals in the federal 340B program.
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For example, in 2013, Chinese state media accused Jaguar Land Rover and Audi of overcharging buyers for car parts, which analysts viewed as part of a campaign to pressure those automakers to locate more manufacturing in China.
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For nearly two years the landmark investigation overseen by Moro has mostly focused on local engineering firms and executives accused of price fixing and overcharging Petrobras for work and then using the extra funds to bribe politicians.
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Fianna Fail finance spokesman Michael McGrath said banks had to fully deal with a years-long mortgage overcharging scandal and parliament introduce laws to make senior bankers accountable for such failings before he would consider the matter.
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New Jersey homeowners accusing title agents of overcharging them by hundreds of dollars for recording deeds and mortgages during real estate closings will have to submit their dispute to individual arbitration, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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" Sprint argued "a small handful of companies are overcharging the very investors and employers that are critical to our economic growth and are using anticompetitive tactics to ensure that these businesses never have access to competitive alternatives.
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Whole Foods recently came under fire in New York City for overcharging its customers, but the company told CNBC that consumers who choose generic brands or shop for in-season produce, can save money on their groceries.
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"We found that some motor dealers are overcharging unsuspecting customers over 1,000 pounds in interest charges in order to obtain bigger commission payouts for themselves," said Jonathan Davidson, executive director of supervision for retail at the watchdog.
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" Sprint argued "a small handful of companies are overcharging the very investors and employers that are critical to our economic growth and are using anticompetitive tactics to ensure that these businesses never have access to competitive alternatives.
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Like the investors, ISS said shareholder value had eroded as the board mismanaged the situation around the company's life saving EpiPen treatment, whose sharp price increases spurred congressional, Justice Department and other government investigations into Medicaid overcharging.
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Today, he and his wife, Diana, live on a sprawling estate on Long Island's North Shore where, according to court records, he installed a $2.7 million model railroad set (and later sued the vendor for overcharging him).
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"Sooo……I'm recused, but when people accuse us of overcharging cases…16 counts on a class 4 becomes exhibit A," Ms. Foxx, the Cook County state's attorney, wrote in a text message to a colleague in March.
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The letter comes after CNBC previously reported Amazon, Walmart and other e-commerce companies have struggled to curb third-party sellers who are overcharging for products that have spiked in demand amid the spread of the coronavirus.
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It wasn't wheelchair-accessible; it was accused of overcharging its customers; and, as VICE reported, the shop's publicist pretended to be its first customer in a television interview, during which she raved about the service she received.
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A former State Street Corp executive's lawyer on Thursday urged an appellate court to conclude the wire fraud statute does not apply extraterritorially, seeking to overturn his client's conviction for overcharging major foreign customers of the bank.
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A federal judge has denied a bid by CVS Health Corp customers for class certification in a $1.23 billion lawsuit accusing the pharmacy chain of systematically overcharging people who bought generic drugs using insurance rather than cash.
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A Tennessee law that bars hospitals from overcharging patients for copies of their medical records does not limit the amount that outside contractors can charge for fulfilling those requests, a divided federal appeals court held on Thursday.
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Jared Kushner is facing lawsuits for his role as a slumlord in the Baltimore area and for overcharging rent from his New York City tenants; we know that his company falsified rent control paperwork in New York.
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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.
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NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a racketeering lawsuit accusing it of overcharging hundreds of thousands of homeowners for appraisals ordered after they defaulted on their mortgage loans.
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Danielle Schumann, a spokesperson for Best Buy, tried to explain the fact that the company is overcharging for the iPhone X in a statement to Bloomberg, which is included in full below for the sheer ridiculousness of it.
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WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. regulator for consumer finance said on Friday it would not penalize Citigroup for overcharging credit card customers provided the bank refunds the 1.75 million borrowers who are due $335 million in refunds.
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Digital currency exchange Coinbase responded this afternoon to a report from The Verge regarding rampant overcharging of users and unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts, saying in a statement that the company has "identified a solution" to the problem.
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Rybolovlev, through his companies Accent Delight International Ltd and Xitrans Finance Ltd, accused Bouvier of overcharging him by more than $1 billion on 38 artworks, for which he paid in excess of $183 billion between 2003 and 2015.
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Energy market regulator Ofgem said it would remove around 1 billion pounds ($13 billion) of overcharging from consumer bills by forcing suppliers to limit the price of their default tariffs to the level of the cap, or below.
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Now Trump is using Twitter to threaten companies he deems are doing wrong – whether it's Boeing overcharging for Air Force One or the likes of General Motors and Toyota for potentially moving U.S. jobs abroad to save money.
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"Cab drivers here are infamous for the ways they fuck you over, overcharging you, taking you around the block, and making you feel unsafe as a woman," Josefin Ekner, a Swedish expat living in Buenos Aires, told me.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Initial findings from a powerful inquiry into Australia's financial sector strongly criticized pension funds run by National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank for regulatory breaches including overcharging customers and failing to act in their best interest.
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In Monroe County in New York, which includes Rochester, Shani Curry Mitchell, a Democrat, challenged the Republican incumbent, Sandra Doorley, by running on a promise to curb mass incarceration, prioritize diversity and end "overcharging" of low-level offenders.
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Dozens of executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation on suspicion of overcharging Petrobras and other state firms on contracts and using part of the proceeds to bribe members of President Dilma Rousseff's ruling coalition.
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Of about 3,000 recruitment agencies in Hong Kong, the government told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that 42 were convicted between 2012 and 2017 for violating laws, but it did not specify if the convictions were related to overcharging.
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The Financial Conduct Authority has been probing lending practices in the fast-growing car financing sector since 2017 and had said in March that some motor dealers were overcharging customers in interest charges to obtain bigger commission payouts.
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You can raise the maximum stat to over 100, and even push it to 200 by "overcharging" your health (and yes, there's an achievement for that)—but don't hoover up health packs willy-nilly when you spot them.
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Utilities have denied overcharging, but last year the Competition and Markets Authority found that British households overpaid a total of 13 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) a year on average from 2012 to 2015 because of uncompetitive standard energy tariffs.
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Qualcomm has been a supplier of components to Apple for years but the relationship took a bad turn earlier this year when Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates.
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Samsung's plan to use a software update to prevent phones from overcharging and overheating was reported by the Associated Press earlier in September, but it was not clear at the time it would apply to users outside South Korea.
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EpiPen revenue has declined over the last year on stiff competition, the launch of the company's own cheaper generic and higher rebates that it has had to pay as a result of a settlement for overcharging the U.S. government.
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PENTAGON REPORTEDLY OVERCHARGING FOR FUEL: The Pentagon has amassed nearly $6 billion in seven years by charging the military excessive prices for fuel, using the money on underfunded -- and in some cases mismanaged -- defense programs, The Washington Post reports.
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"In the ordinary course of us checking our procedures we discovered that there was a calculation error in the penalty charges for customers who were making late payments, so we were slightly overcharging," Chief Executive John Walden told reporters.
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Mortgage servicer Ocwen Loan Servicing has been hit with a proposed class action in Los Angeles federal court accusing it of overcharging homeowners for property insurance, the latest of several legal actions over its so-called force-placed insurance.
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In the last two years, Medicare has imposed more than $10 million in fines and taken other enforcement actions against private plans for overcharging beneficiaries, denying or delaying coverage for prescription drugs, and failing to respond to patients' complaints.
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Foxx says in the texts this was a clear case of overcharging ... as she put it, charging Jussie with 16 counts on a minor felony "becomes exhibit A." The texts were first reported by CBS Chicago's Charlie De Mar.
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A. Lithium-ion battery fires have been in the headlines for the past few years, and while many cases have been attributed to manufacturing defects, bad design, punctures or electrical overcharging issues, some exact causes have not been pinpointed.
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He plowed through internal documents to bare boondoggles like Boeing's vastly overcharging the Pentagon for its work on cruise missiles, and the Air Force's paying $916.55 each for plastic caps for stool legs that had really cost 34 cents.
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Combined with legal and regulatory penalties for its sales abuses, which also involved overcharging hundreds of thousands of customers on auto loans, mortgages and account features they did not request, the bank has struggled to get its profit engine humming again.
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Dozens of executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation on suspicion of overcharging state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro SA and other state firms on contracts and using part of the proceeds to bribe members of Rousseff's ruling coalition.
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PTSB was also hit with a record 21 million euro fine this year, the largest ever handed down by the country's central bank, for overcharging mortgage customers after it became the first Irish lender caught up in the sector-wide scandal.
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In a release issued last week, the Delhi government said that the traffic police and the divisional commissioner would deploy teams to 120 traffic points and that the Transport Department would check for overcharging and "misbehavior" by auto rickshaw drivers.
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Mylan, the company that makes the product, had to go on the defensive to explain the price hike and Mylan Nevada even faced a lawsuit from the Justice Department for overcharging the government for EpiPens (they settled for $465 million).
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Maintenance and other costs should be lower for fleets of hailable AVs, because centralised facilities ought to enjoy productivity advantages over distributed mechanics' shops, and because individual owners are at an informational disadvantage to their mechanics, which creates opportunities for overcharging.
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LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - A 14 billion pound ($18 billion) class action lawsuit against MasterCard for allegedly overcharging more than 45 million people in Britain over a 16-year period was blocked from proceeding by a judge, MasterCard said on Friday.
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The overcharging related to calls that British customers had made to the United States while in the EU and after the operator continued to bill customers for calling a number for some months after that number had been made free.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Federal Police have called for the indictment of 21 people, including two ex-governors of the capital Brasilia, for allegedly overcharging 559 million reais ($178 million) in the renovation of the stadium used in the 2014 World Cup.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Whole Foods Market Inc to face a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing it of overcharging shoppers in New York City by overstating the weight of pre-packaged food in its supermarkets.
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Dozens of engineering firm executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation for overcharging Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Petrobras is formally known, for building contracts and using part of the proceeds to bribe members of Rousseff's ruling coalition.
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The overcharging scheme's first victim was a sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East to which the bank had offered zero commissions for reworking its $6 billion portfolio, saying it would be compensated by the fund's counterparties, the SEC said.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is pushing for a one-year delay of an Affordable Care Act policy that would fine drug companies for "knowingly and intentionally" overcharging hospitals for drugs within the federal discount program known as 340B.
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According to an internal survey from an accountant staffing firm, employees admitted that when sleep-deprived they were prone to making major mistakes—like deleting an entire project that took over 1,000 hours to complete or overcharging a client $1 million.
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The bank, the fourth-largest in the country, has also been a target of bipartisan anger over actions ranging from charging hundreds of thousands of people for auto insurance they didn't need to overcharging members of the military to refinance mortgages.
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Fresh off a deal intended to keep roughly 1,000 Carrier jobs in Indianapolis, Mr. Trump took aim at Boeing on Tuesday with a complaint that it was overcharging the government on a potential $19903 billion contract to replace Air Force One.
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The soiree is attended mostly by the school's Black population, aside from the few non-Black students that Sky (future Disney princess Halle Bailey) is overcharging for "reparations," but one person is notably missing from the Beychella-themed festivities: Nomi.
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This isn&apost a measure of Apple overcharging for something — it&aposs a measure of Apple selling a niche product with a niche customer and their niche budget in mind, and then failing to stick the landing during the announcement.
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DUBLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Ireland could increase a government levy on banks, amend its tax law, introduce stricter reporting or take shareholder activist actions if insufficient progress is made on a mortgage overcharging scandal, its finance minister said on Wednesday.
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A central reason for insurers' caution is the fear that regulators will punish them for unwittingly taking on bad risks—or because some new, AI-powered underwriting method is found to be rejecting or overcharging consumers from certain ethnic groups or neighbourhoods.
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Historically, Apple has used a mix of Qualcomm and Intel modems in its devices, but the two companies have been on the outs since the beginning of 2017, when Apple sued Qualcomm over anti-competitive prices, accusing the modem supplier of overcharging it.
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NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Whole Foods Market Inc to face a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing it of overcharging shoppers in New York City by overstating the weight of pre-packaged food in its supermarkets.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) had been looking into lending practices in the fast-growing car financing sector since 2017 and said in March that some motor dealers were overcharging customers in interest charges in order to obtain bigger commission payouts for themselves.
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The farm ministry in March cut royalties that local seed firms pay to Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) (MMB), a Monsanto joint venture with India's Mahyco, following complaints from domestic firms that the venture was overcharging for a gene that produces its own pesticide.
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SYDNEY, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Initial findings from a powerful inquiry into Australia's financial sector strongly criticised pension funds run by market heavyweights National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank for regulatory breaches including overcharging customers and failing to act in their best interest.
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In a statement e-mailed by a spokeswoman, State Street said its settlement with the SEC ends all government investigations of the overcharging for its transition management services, which the SEC said generated about $20 million in improper revenue for the firm.
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It claims it can deliver a full charge to your MacBook with its 15,000 mAh battery, comes with safety features like built-in circuit protection to keep your devices from overcharging, and comes with two extra USB-C cables, all for $99.95.
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Dozens of Brazilian engineering firms accused of price fixing and overcharging Petrobras for work, in order to pass on excess funds as bribes to executives and politicians, have been blacklisted from signing new contracts but have not had existing contracts voided by Petrobras.
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The bipartisan bill is aimed at stopping a repeat of the actions from Mylan, the maker of EpiPen, which made headlines last year for overcharging the Medicaid program for its commonly used product by as much as $1.27 billion over 10 years.
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William Galvin said State Street Global Markets LLC has engaged in a pattern of overcharging, noting the company often labeled charges for secure electronic messages, known as SWIFT messages, as "out-of-pocket" expenses that contained concealed markups of up to 1,900 percent.
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The bank, which received a 7 billion euro bailout in 2009, posted a profit before tax of 852 million euros ($1.05 billion) for 2017, lower than the year before due to a 170 million euro charge related to the overcharging of mortgage customers.
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Mylan's revenue from EpiPen dropped sharply over the last year due to increased competition, the launch of its own cheaper generic and higher rebates that it has had to pay to as a result of a settlement for overcharging the U.S. government.
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It's unclear just how widespread the issues are, though the swollen battery issue can be caused by a number of factors like overcharging or overheating; their persistence suggests that Apple is continuing to have some problems with the quality of components in its supply chain.
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Companies do their best to create controllers that monitor and regulate a battery to prevent it from overcharging and overheating, but defective batteries can happen (as was the case with the Note7) and people can (and do) push their phones beyond their advertised limits.
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It's the latest battle in a long-running war between the San Diego chipmaker, which accuses Apple of using technology derived from its patents without paying, and the Cupertino behemoth, which accuses Qualcomm of overcharging for its innovations and seeking to create a monopoly.
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Initial findings from the Royal Commission strongly criticised pension funds run by National Australia Bank , Commonwealth Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and No. 1 wealth manager AMP Ltd for regulatory breaches including overcharging customers and failing to act in their best interest.
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When the Department failed to hold giant student loan servicer Navient accountable after the company was fined nearly $100 million by other federal law enforcement agencies for allegedly overcharging thousands of active-duty military personnel, I called them out and helped trigger an independent investigation.
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In the latest hit to the battered bank, Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the bank of overcharging hundreds of thousands of homeowners for appraisals ordered after the homeowners defaulted on their mortgage loans.
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The rare charges against former high-level executives at one of the largest U.S. banks come after Wells Fargo has already faced over $1 billion in fines stemming from that scandal and a slew of other actions, including overcharging military veterans to refinance mortgages.
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Now Mr. Trump is using Twitter to threaten companies he sees as doing wrong — whether it is Boeing, assailed for overcharging on Air Force One, or the likes of General Motors and Toyota, taken to task for potentially moving American jobs abroad to save money.
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Ahead of a "Keep America Great" rally in the Twin Cities scheduled to take place Thursday, Trump's reelection effort is accusing Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of overcharging the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis $530,000 for security and other costs related to hosting the event.
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The customer and bank culture has been at the heart of the questioning by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, with apologies flowing from the chief executives of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), ANZ and Westpac for overcharging customers and giving bad financial advice.
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Mylan CEO Heather Bresch listens to an aide during a hearing before lying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 21, 2016 (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Mylan, the drug company that makes EpiPen, has been overcharging Medicare and Medicaid for years.
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But of course the most important element of Die Lit is that it's the embodiment of a current culture where the only thing more important than one day achieving that six figure paying job is Instagram clout (understandably) and getting by through overcharging on Grailed (also, understandably).
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Mr. Trump on Tuesday took a break from using the platform to shout down supporters of the impeachment inquiry to criticize the mayor, Jacob Frey, a Democrat who Mr. Trump says is overcharging for security at a campaign rally planned for Thursday night at the Target Center.
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The suit, filed this week in Northern California federal court by Tri Huynh, alleges that Walmart has been lowering its standards to boost the size of its online catalogue; mis-categorizing some items listed for sale, which can result in overcharging some merchants who sell through Walmart.
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For those following the protracted saga of the pharmaceutical price-gouger, domain squatter, internet harasser, and, I guess, rap fan, Shkreli made headlines as a mid-rate troll who happened to be overcharging for AIDS medication and was later convicted of engaging in a not-so-elaborate fraud scheme.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A group of companies and individuals have agreed to pay $3 million in reparations to the United Nations Refugee Agency to settle allegations by Mexico of overcharging for basic food-aid packages distributed by the Venezuelan government, the Mexican attorney general's office said on Thursday.
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"It is astonishing that one single company could be responsible for overcharging more than 22006,22007 homeowners, which is more than 2140 percent of all the mortgages in the United States," Jon Leibowitz, then chairman of the trade commission, told me in a 267.5 interview after Countrywide settled the case.
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" Liberal icon Robert Reich, hunting for examples of big companies overcharging for goods and services, argues that "antitrust laws have been relaxed for corporations with significant market power, such as big food companies, cable companies facing little or no broadband competition, big airlines, and the largest Wall Street banks.
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The CEO has been embroiled in controversy within the past five years with bold statements about Obamacare and political leanings as well as being accused in 2015 by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs for consistently overcharging for some prepackaged food items in New York City stores.
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"Sooo......I'm recused, but when people accuse us of overcharging cases ...16 counts on a class 4 (felony) becomes exhibit A," she wrote on the same day that a Cook County grand jury indicted Smollett on a theory that he falsely reported being the victim of a hate crime in Chicago.
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A New Jersey couple on Friday filed a class-action lawsuit against Costco Wholesale and several of its stores, claiming the membership-only warehouse giant has been illegally overcharging them — and potentially hundreds of thousands of other customers — by charging sales tax on toilet tissue purchases in violation of state law.
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Keeping the fee structure sustainable for the startup, preventing creators from having their content accessed without fair payment and avoiding overcharging patrons for processing fees or fractions of a month of access seems somewhat intractable, otherwise the company would have come in with a better solution than its first attempt.
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Lebanese social media users quickly embraced it to comment on the country's beaches (and their scent of sewage), its ski slopes (and mountainside garbage dumps), its wine industry (and hash factories), its swanky (and overcharging) restaurants and its cedar forests (what's left of them) dating to the Song of Solomon.
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The deal, approved last month by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman in Miami last month over the objections of Gary and Barbara Long, resolves a class action accusing PNC and subsidiaries of New York insurer Assurant Inc of overcharging homeowners for insurance they were forced to buy when their own policies lapsed.
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In Bank of America's settlement with the Department of Justice, the bank admitted to overcharging more than 200,000 black and Hispanic borrowers for their loans and that there was a much greater chance — twice as likely in fact — of a minority applicant being steered into a riskier and more expensive subprime loan.
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Its first major test case -- a 14 billion pound claim against Mastercard for allegedly overcharging more than 45 million people in Britain over a 16-year period -- was blocked by the CAT in 2017, a decision that was overturned at the Court of Appeal and is set to be heard by the Supreme Court.
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Its first major test case — a 14 billion pound claim against Mastercard for allegedly overcharging more than 45 million people in Britain over a 16-year period — was blocked by the CAT in 2017, a decision that was overturned at the Court of Appeal and is set to be heard by the Supreme Court.
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As detailed in the administrators' report, among them, it took two years for the company to get its app off the ground, while the startup continued to consume resources; it had problems with overcharging in some cases and offering too many rides for no charge in other cases; and it had poor fraud protection in place.
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Already, Ireland's largest health insurer is scaremongering over Sláintecare, with doomsaying over high taxes and the "structural decline" it says would result from reserving public hospitals for public care (never mind the fact that private insurance companies are already outrageously overcharging; it can cost €813 to spend one night sleeping on a gurney in an Irish hospital).
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In the messages obtained from Foxx's office after public-records requests by the Chicago Tribune and ABC 7 Chicago, the State's Attorney wrote, "Sooo… I'm recused, but when people accuse us of overcharging cases… 16 counts on a class 4 (felony) becomes exhibit A." The conversation between Foxx and Magats took place on March 8 — the day authorities announced Smollett's 16-count indictment.
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Fliedner wants to see changes in how candidates for District Attorney finance their campaigns—Vance took contributions from lawyers who represented both Weinstein and the Trump siblings—and he also wants to see the Manhattan D.A.'s office embrace bail reform, stop overcharging defendants, amend sentencing to respond to circumstances like poverty and mental illness, and address institutional racism in the criminal-justice system.
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SAO PAULO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Thursday overturned an audit court ruling that had frozen the assets of industrial conglomerate Odebrecht due to alleged overcharging on a refinery built for state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Last month, the TCU federal audit court froze 2.1 billion reais ($646 million) of assets pertaining to a consortium of Odebrecht SA and OAS SA, which rendered services for the Abreu e Lima refinery in northeast Brazil.
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Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyWhite House denies exploring payroll tax cut to offset worsening economy Schumer joins Pelosi in opposition to post-Brexit trade deal that risks Northern Ireland accord GOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation MORE (R-Iowa) and Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.), comes after the Department of Health and Human Services last year accused Mylan, the maker of EpiPen, of overcharging the Medicaid program by as much as $1.27 billion over ten years by misclassifying the drug as a generic.
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