Charlie Crist, Florida's attorney general, said Tuesday afternoon that he had received more than 1,400 complaints of overcharging from throughout the disaster area.
Vytra Health Plans Long Island, a health maintenance organization in Melville, has been fined $300,000 and ordered to pay $2.1 million in refunds or credits to policyholders who were overcharged from January 2003 to June 2005, Howard Mills, the New York State Superintendent of Insurance, said on Tuesday.
He has recovered $20 million in overcharges from Entergy for the city government here and others and is fighting to collect $5 million more that he says Entergy improperly charged Louisiana.
PRIVACY The court ruled that trial lawyers in South Carolina ran afoul of part of the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act by using information obtained from the state motor vehicles department to solicit clients for a lawsuit about overcharges from car dealerships.
Thus Sotheby's argued that customers who sued the auction houses for overcharges from antitrust violations would benefit more from a settlement with coupons, which could have a higher aggregate value than an all-cash payment, than they would in a settlement without the coupons.
American businesses are fed up with backroom deals, overages and overcharging from AT&T and Verizon.
We need oversight of government contracts not overcharges from companies like Halliburton that are rushing to take advantage of this national crisis.
CITY HALL — Amid legal efforts to recover millions in alleged construction overcharges from a Los Angeles-based affordable housing developer, officials are also moving to iron out complications related to a fifth Glendale project planned with the firm.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke, like other out-of-state independent power producers, is under fire from Gov. Gray Davis for allegedly overcharging for electricity from its California generating plants.
