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Four months after agreeing to pay $19.5 million to another Texas supermarket chain to settle charges of overcharging, Oklahoma City-based Fleming Cos. Inc. is facing a similar claim by Houston's [...]

Stephen Tobia, co-chairman and CEO of Mid-Wilshire-based Pacific/West Communications Group Inc., made a mistake. He's the first to admit that much. As head of L.A.'s biggest independently owned public relations [...]

Tele-Communications Inc. dodged a $10 million bullet in Dallas recently when the city dropped its demands for the largest refund ever ordered by a municipal government against a local cable [...]

Tri-Lakes Cable of Monument, Colo., has filed a 'determination for effective competition' with the FCC after receiving 'threatening letters' from rival American Telecasting Inc., a wireless cable service, claiming that [...]

MIAMI - Are seven cruise lines padding bottom-line revenues by including fees in port charges paid by clients? Lawyers in three states seem to think so, and have filed class-action […]

An alliance of Kentucky municipalities last week accused TKR Cable of Greater Louisville of overcharging its 200,000 local subscribers by $4.3 million a year. The Jefferson County League of Cities [...]

New evidence heats up Hawthorne trash clash A document obtained through a court subpoena appears to substantiate charges that H&C Disposal Co., which has had an exclusive garbage-collection contract with [...]

MSO calls charges offensive and ridiculous Comcast Cable says a lawsuit charging the multiple system operator with bilking its customers of millions of dollars is 'offensive, ridiculous and totally without [...]

.....Eleven franchisees of Domino's Pizza of Ann Arbor, MI, have filed suit in Philadelphia claiming the company overcharges its franchisees for pizza dough and other supplies. The costs are said [...]

A jury has decided that Trustmark Corp must pay $38.5 million in punitive damages to a Mississippi man who was overcharged for collateral protection auto insurance. The announcement of the award has prompted others to complain, and the man's lawyer has requested class-action status for about 20 other similar suits pending against Trustmark. Trustmark will appeal the award, and the Mississippi bankers Association will try to get legislation passed that would protect bankers from such liability., The $38.5 million jury decision against Mississippi's Trustmark Corp. has set off a firestorm of complaints against the bank and other institutions in the area, according to the plaintiff's lawyer. [...]

DA accused cable firm of predatory pricing in setting late-payment fees Cox Cable of San Diego and its parent company, Cox Cable Communications, Inc., must pay penalties totaling nearly $7 [...]

LOS ANGELES - To settle a case filed in March, Ralphs Grocery Co., Compton, Calif., has pleaded no contest and agreed to pay a fine and a penalty to dismiss [...]

The Helene Fuld Medical Center is being sued for price-gouging by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey (New Jersey Blues). The Bakery Drivers Local 194 Welfare Fund is a party to New Jersey Blues' lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that the medical center overcharged patients by $1.8 million between Jan 1, 1993, and the time that a new state-mandated payment system went into effect on Apr 26, 1993. The suit also charges that the medical center unbundled its products and services to reap higher profits., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey has filed suit against Helene Fuld Medical Center, charging the hospital with price-gouging as well as violations of the state's Consumer Fraud [...]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, in a lawsuit filed in Nov 1993, has charged Trenton's Helene Fuld Medical Center with overcharging patients by up to $5.7 million. The Bakery Drivers Local 194 Welfare Fund, a health benefits plan, is taking part in the suit. Blue Cross and Blue Shield claims that the hospital subjected members of the union benefit plan to price gouging.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. declares the U.S. Department of Energy has implicitly conceded its long pending price overcharge case against an Oxy subsidiary is 'fatally flawed.' Gerald Stem, Oxy executive vice-president [...]

Ryles orders refund for small businesses Georgia Insurance Commissioner Tim Ryles has ordered Pan American Life Insurance Co. to refund $19,054 in premium payments to 50 small businesses which were [...]