Barclays Bank has agreed to pay out more than $450 million in settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the British Financial Services Authority. Those entities said the bank had tried to manipulate key interest rates, which in turn affect mortgages, student loans and more. [More]
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Walgreens To Pay $7.9 Million To Make Prescriptions Controversy Go Away
By 4.20.12
Walgreens owes a pretty penny to the U.S. Department of Justice, specifically, $7.9 million to make a little prescription controversy to go away. The government said Walgreens illegally tried to get federal health care beneficiaries to switch their prescriptions to Walgreens pharmacies. [More]
Man Receives $44 Million Hospital Bill For $300 Worth Of Treatments
By 1.17.12
The good news is that Alexis isn’t going to have to pay the $44 million bill he received after a hospital treated his pneumonia. The bad is that hundreds of others also received ridiculous bills after a billing company made the teensy error of entering the invoice numbers into the amount due box. Woopsies. [More]
Woman Rejects Honda Settlement, Claims Her Civic Didn't Live Up To Its Advertised Gas Mileage
By 1.2.12
Not content with a proposed settlement from Honda over claims that their Civic Hybrids don’t live up to their advertised gas mileage, a woman is bringing the car manufacturers to small-claims court to get what she thinks is her due. [More]
HTC Damaged My Phone During Warranty Inspection, Refuses To Fix
By 9.19.11
Consumerist reader Travis needed to replace a digitizer on his HTC HD2 phone, so he went through the usual channels and contacted the company’s warranty center to get the process going. From then on, everything went downhill. [More]
Fetch.io Account Suspended For Overdue Sum of No Dollars
By 7.11.11
Things can get really tight when it comes to bills, and now and then, having your account suspended due to nonpayment… well, it’s happened to many of us. But what if you don’t owe anything and are then held accountable for not paying that overdue amount of $0? Such was the case for Consumerist reader John W. [More]
