More than three years after regulators accused Ring of letting its own employees watch customers’ home security footage with little oversight, money tied to that case is still moving. The Federal Trade Commission has begun sending Zelle payments to Ring owners who never cashed an earlier refund check or accepted a PayPal payment, the latest…

The Federal Trade Commission has started sending a new round of payments to Amazon Flex drivers whose tips the company secretly withheld nearly a decade ago, this time depositing the money directly through Zelle instead of mailing a check. The Zelle payments are going to drivers who never cashed the checks sent during two earlier…

A federal judge signed off on a $425 million settlement in April 2026 to resolve claims that Capital One let its older 360 Savings account fall far behind the interest rate it paid on the newer 360 Performance Savings account. Current and former accountholders were told a payout was coming automatically, with no claim form…

Five of the country’s biggest pork processors have agreed to pay a combined $117 million to settle a long-running lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to inflate the price of bacon, chops, ribs and other raw pork sold in grocery stores nationwide. The deal covers people who bought pork for their own household, not restaurants or…

Millions of renters signed a lease without ever hearing the name RealPage, yet the software the company sold to their landlord may have played a direct role in setting the number on that lease. A sprawling antitrust case accused RealPage and a long list of major property managers of using shared, software-driven pricing recommendations to…

Farmers who needed a Deere-brand tractor or combine repaired have spent years complaining that only an authorized dealer could do the job, even for routine work a local independent shop was equipped to handle. A federal antitrust lawsuit turned that complaint into a $99 million cash settlement, plus interest, covering anyone who paid for repair…

An airbag that doesn’t deploy in a crash isn’t a minor defect, and that’s the allegation behind a nationwide settlement covering millions of Hyundai and Kia vehicles built over more than a decade. Lawsuits consolidated into multidistrict litigation in California alleged that certain airbag control units, made by ZF-TRW and installed across a range of…

A batch of federal refund checks is landing in mailboxes for people who paid a company called Helping America Group to fix their debt, only to end up worse off. The Federal Trade Commission says it recovered more money from the operation’s defendants and is now sending out a third distribution on top of two…

Roughly 57,000 people had a strange problem on their credit report: a bankruptcy remark attached to one of their accounts, even though no public bankruptcy filing existed anywhere in their name. A class action against Trans Union alleged the credit bureau sold those inaccurate reports to lenders and other third parties for years, and a…

Every time a shopper hands an insurance card to the pharmacist at a Kroger counter, the price charged is supposed to match what Kroger tells its own customers is the usual and customary cash price for that drug. A federal class action filed in the Southern District of Ohio alleged Kroger broke that promise for…