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Arizona’s attorney general is appealing water and sewer rate hikes that raised the average Robson Ranch-area bill from $72.01 to $143.59 a month
Robson Ranch residents near Eloy saw their average combined water and sewer bill nearly double, and on October 6 Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed...
Arizona’s attorney general wants regulators to probe whether APS shifted about $587 million in large-user costs onto other customers
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes asked state utility regulators on Friday, October 9, to investigate whether a charge on Arizona Public Service bills moved about...
Consumers expect medical care costs to rise faster than food, rent and gas over the next year, a New York Fed survey released October 7 found
Households expect medical care to be the fastest-rising cost over the next year, with the median respondent putting the increase at 9.2%, according to the...
Coast Dental patients who allegedly kept getting marketing texts after opting out can claim up to $59 in cash by December 24
People who say Coast Dental Services kept texting and calling them after they asked it to stop can file for up to $59 in cash,...
Patients billed more than $249 for Natera’s Panorama prenatal test without microdeletions can claim from a $9.5 million settlement through May 3, 2027
Natera, the genetic testing company, has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a class action over bills for its Panorama prenatal blood test and...
Fans charged Aramark’s allegedly undisclosed venue fee at Capital One Arena can claim from a $4.5 million settlement by December 4
Aramark has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class action over a 3 percent “venue fee” added to food and drink at Capital...
Patients of Sonic Healthcare, Aurora Diagnostics and two other labs caught in the AMCA data breach have until January 4 to claim from a $6.4 million-plus fund
Patients of Sonic Healthcare USA, Aurora Diagnostics, Clinical Pathology Laboratories and Austin Pathology Associates have until Monday, January 4, 2027, to file a claim from...
Families of Harvard Medical School body donors can claim cash from a proposed $53 million morgue settlement, and claims are due December 9
A proposed $53 million settlement would pay relatives and designated representatives of people who donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gift Program, and...
FTD and ProFlowers would pay $5 cash or a $15 voucher to customers charged delivery fees from 2021 to 2025, and claims close November 13
People who paid a delivery, shipping, handling or service fee on FTD.com or ProFlowers.com between January 29, 2021, and January 29, 2025, can file for...
Pacific Power customers in California get a $111.83 Climate Credit on their November bills
Pacific Power’s California customers get a $111.83 Climate Credit on their November electric bills, the California Public Utilities Commission says. It is the second payment...
Home heating oil starts the winter at $6.042 a gallon, $2.487 above last year
The first weekly heating-season survey from the U.S. Energy Information Administration puts residential heating oil at $6.042 a gallon nationally for the week of October...
Connecticut heating aid pays $355 to $705, with applications open until May 31
Connecticut has been taking applications for heating aid since September 1, and the Department of Social Services will keep taking them through May 31, 2027....
Delta’s $78.75 million fuel-dump settlement won a judge’s tentative approval September 28, with nearly 13,000 claims approved and no payment date yet
Delta Air Lines’ fuel-dump case cleared a key step in Los Angeles when a federal judge tentatively approved the airline’s $78.75 million settlement over the...
Florida’s Isaias emergency in 25 counties requires state-regulated insurers to cover an early 30-day prescription refill no matter when it was last filled
Florida health insurers and HMOs must pay for at least a 30-day supply of a prescription even when the last fill was only days ago,...
Gas averaged $4.36 a gallon nationally on October 8, AAA says, against $3.12 a year earlier, as pump prices stay at autumn records
The national average price of regular gasoline was $4.36 a gallon on October 8, against $3.12 a year earlier, AAA said in its weekly gas...
Transamerica universal life owners hit by 2022 and 2023 rate increases would be paid automatically from a separate $57 million settlement
Owners of Transamerica universal life policies who received a rate-increase letter in 2022 or 2023 are in line for a mailed check from a $57...
Electric-heated homes face an average $1,196 winter heating bill, the Energy Department forecasts
Homes that heat with electricity are forecast to spend an average of $1,196 from November through March, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the...
More than 1,300 Washington patients will get mailed refund checks averaging nearly $300 from a $410,000 Puget Sound Physicians charity-care settlement
Puget Sound Physicians, the group that provides emergency medicine at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, will refund more than 1,300 Washington patients a total of $410,000...
Americans who bought insurance through five Lloyd’s of London syndicates since 1997 have until October 30 to claim from a $3.57 million settlement
People who bought insurance through five Lloyd’s of London syndicates have until October 30 to file for a share of a $3.57 million partial settlement...
Illinois heating aid has $240 million available through August 13, 2027 or until funds run out, and every eligible household can apply starting November 1
Illinois has $240 million available for heating and electric bills this winter, and applications run through August 13, 2027, or until the money runs out....