A $2.5 billion settlement ranks among the largest the Federal Trade Commission has ever announced, yet the agency’s own page for the case currently gives no delivery date for a large share of the money still owed. Amazon has already paid out one round of Prime refunds tied to the case, but a second round…

More than 640,000 checks and electronic payments are moving through the mail and inboxes of Grubhub drivers and diners right now, and each one comes with an expiration date attached. The Federal Trade Commission is distributing more than $23.8 million to people it says were harmed by the delivery platform’s business practices, and the agency…

Some Cash App users are opening their mailboxes this year to find a paper check they never asked for, sent by a company most of them have never heard of. The checks trace back to a January 2025 order from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against Block, Inc., the parent company of Cash App, over…

The Federal Trade Commission has reopened a refund case that most people assumed was closed two years ago. Former AT&T customers who were mailed a check or offered a PayPal payment in 2024 and never completed either one are now getting that money delivered by Zelle instead. The switch is clearing out a pocket of…

DermTech, the California lab behind an adhesive-patch skin test marketed as a needle-free alternative to a mole biopsy, has reached a deal with the Justice Department over how it billed Medicare for that test. The company, now unwinding in Chapter 11 bankruptcy as DTech Liquidating Inc., is turning over an allowed unsecured bankruptcy claim of…

SitusAMC Holdings Corporation is not a lender or a loan servicer you’d recognize from a monthly statement. It’s a back-office vendor that processes loan data and paperwork for mortgage companies, which is exactly why most people who got a breach notice from it this year had never heard the name before. Now a $5.3 million…

A payment processor that helped move more than $30 million out of American bank accounts for a tech-support scam has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to settle federal fraud charges — but that money is not on its way to victims yet. The Federal Trade Commission says Nuvei, a Canada-based company that processes credit…

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing a second round of checks to people who paid to join a business-opportunity program called Blueprint to Wealth, which promised buyers a turnkey business run by so-called success coaches who would supposedly do the work for them. The agency says it is sending 2,005 payments totaling more than $333,000,…

A federal court in San Francisco has given preliminary approval to a $59.5 million settlement resolving claims that Google, the period-tracking app Flo Health and the analytics firm Flurry shared users’ menstrual and pregnancy data with outside companies without proper consent. The fund is now open to claims, and the deadline to file falls in…

The National Association of Realtors and 30 real estate brokerage companies have agreed to pay $120.3 million to settle a nationwide lawsuit accusing them of keeping home-sale commissions artificially high. The money is earmarked for people who bought a home listed on a multiple listing service and paid a commission as part of the deal,…