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DWP Customers Will Have to Keep Waiting for Refunds

L.A. Department of Water and Power officials announced more than a year ago that they would refund tens of millions of dollars to Angelenos who were overbilled because of a faulty computer system. But customers are still waiting and it will be 2017 before they see any money. Under a $44-million proposed class-action settlement announced in August 2015, customers were to receive a refund or …


LADWP Class Action Settlement on Behalf of Overbilled Customers Has Grown to Nearly $50 Million

The landmark class action settlement reached with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) on behalf of overbilled customers has now grown to nearly $50,000,000. Consumer rights attorney Jack Landskroner, of Landskroner Grieco Merriman, said today: “Our efforts, have already identified an additional $5,400,000 due back to customers who were overbilled since the settlement with …


News From the Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is removing a law firm hired to oversee the turnaround of schools owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit education company whose financial collapse had placed at risk more than $1 billion in federal student loans. An Associated Press investigation identified conflicts with the ostensibly independent monitor. The department said it was …