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The Multipurpose Civic Center Facility Board for Pulaski County is going after a Nebraska businessman for allegedly defrauding patrons of North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. The arena board has sued [...]

Byline: Alanna Byrne News that FedEx has reached a settlement over alleged overcharging sent shares of the company soaring last week. The company faced ongoing allegations that FedEx 'systematically overcharge[ed]' [...]

Consumers in Zavala County, TX, are suing Allstate Insurance Co. and Texas Farmers Insurance Co. for price gouging. However, Allstate blames Texas insurance department rating methods for the charges. An attorney for the plaintiffs said that the state insurance department's policy unequivocally states that premiums for semiannual policies calculated from annual premiums should be rounded once, not twice as the companies' allege. The double-rounding allegedly led to $100 million in excess fees over 10 years by the companies., While insurers readily admit they've been overcharging at least some Texas consumers for auto insurance, they contend they've done so only because of a controversial rating method forced upon them [...]

Byline: Alan Kline A federal judge has ordered State Street Corporation (STT) to try to reach an out-of-court settlement with an Arkansas pension fund that has accused the Boston custody [...]

Byline: Rob Kozlowski CalPERS rehired State Street as global custodian of the $232.2 billion system, spokesman Wayne Davis confirmed. Two other firms -- J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of New [...]

The Government of India has announced that demand notices worth up to Rs 2,328.53 crore were issued to pharma firms for drug overpricing during 27 Aug 1997 to 31 Jan [...]

The attorney general of Louisiana has sued Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd (RLL) and Lupin Ltd in a district court for allegedly overcharging the state insurance programme, Medicaid, with full intent in [...]

Cisco Systems and one of its distributors, Weston Group North America, will pay $48 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the federal authorities claiming the two companies overcharged on [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein A pair of cases alleging violations of Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act anti-kickback provisions could impact relationships between title underwriters and agencies and how title policies are [...]

Hewlett-Packard has reached a $47m settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over claims the supplier overcharged the government on multiple federal contracts. The DoJ joined a court case [...]

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a civil suit in a federal court against Oracle, accusing the company of defrauding the federal government by overcharging for software. The [...]

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has granted BT extra time to prepare its appeal against an Ofcom finding that it overcharged other network operators almost [pounds sterling]42m for partial private circuits [...]

A Supreme Court judgment does nothing for consumers SINCE July 2007 complaints from 1.2m bank customers about unfair charges on their unauthorised overdrafts have been gathering dust while learned counsel [...]

Leo Burnett will pay the US Army dollars 15.5 million in order to settle allegations that the agency overcharged the government institution. The lawsuit emerged in 2004 when two staff [...]

Judge Declines to Dismiss Jackson Hewitt Suit New York - A federal judge has turned down Jackson Hewitt's request to have a class-action lawsuit dismissed against the company and some [...]

A student-loan company, FedLoan Servicing, has come under scrutiny as a lawsuit asserts that it overcharged [...]

By Staff A new jersey jury found that U.S. chemicals supplier Lyondell was overcharging German buyer BASF for propylene oxide and must pay BASF $170 million. In 1998, BASF and [...]