Category: Your Money

Public-inspection PDF, filed 2026-09-21 16:15, scheduled FR publication 2026-09-23 places the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security development in a defined public record. The record identifies the named action, its stated scope and the qualification that limits what this announcement means. Those details, rather than a broad inference, are the basis for…

California AG release places the Abbott Laboratories development in a defined public record. The record identifies the named action, its stated scope and the qualification that limits what this announcement means. Those details, rather than a broad inference, are the basis for the article. The Abbott Laboratories record Total settlement: $385 million (source's rounded figure)…

AT&T customers who have kept a retired unlimited wireless plan for years are seeing a new line item on their monthly bill. The company’s own customer notice confirms the plan charge is rising by $10 a month for a single line and $20 a month total for a multi-line account, with 20GB of added hotspot…

A class-action settlement granted final approval in Delaware this summer reimburses owners of certain side-by-side refrigerators for a wiring defect behind the freezer door. The payout is not a single number: it runs on a sliding scale from 35 to 75 percent of a repair bill, depending on how many years the refrigerator had been…

A Fair Fund built from a Securities and Exchange Commission case against The Vanguard Group, Inc. still has no open claim window for the retirement savers it was created to compensate. The fund traces back to a 2025 order over how Vanguard disclosed the tax consequences of a pricing change to its target-date retirement funds,…

An accounting the Federal Trade Commission released in 2025 closes the books on a specific slice of 2024: the refund programs the agency wound down that year. Twenty-five cases closed, more than $148 million went out the door, and the agency’s own math puts the average payment at $127.58 per person. That average is accurate,…

A federal judge in New York has cleared the way toward final approval of a $4.95 million settlement covering anyone in the United States whose private information may have been exposed when ConnectOnCall, an after-hours on-call answering service used by doctors’ offices and medical practices nationwide, suffered a data breach in 2024. A class member…

A class action settlement moving toward final approval in a Florida circuit court reaches an unusually broad group: anyone who logged onto CVS’s website, its health portal or its mobile app before the middle of this year. The case centers on claims that CVS shared visitor data with an outside advertising-technology firm without adequate disclosure….

Millions of former AT&T customers were promised money years ago after the wireless carrier settled federal charges that it throttled data speeds on plans advertised as unlimited. Many of those refunds went out as paper checks or PayPal transfers in 2024, and a share of them were never claimed. The Federal Trade Commission is now…

A second distribution of settlement checks tied to the government’s case against Lexington Law and CreditRepair.com is scheduled to reach mailboxes over the coming weeks. The payment round carries real money for consumers who paid either company for credit repair services years ago, but eligibility for it depends on a detail almost nobody tracks: whether…