Typing a company’s name into a search engine to find its bill-pay page sounds like the safe way to handle a utility bill. According to the Federal Trade Commission, doing exactly that with certain searches for years led consumers straight to Doxo, a third-party payment platform that the agency says dressed itself up to look…

Monogram Health, a Tennessee-based company that sends clinicians into patients’ homes to manage chronic kidney disease and other conditions, has agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false diagnosis codes to raise its payments from the Medicare Advantage program. The Department of Justice announced the settlement on August 24 and updated…

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to resolve lawsuits filed by attorneys general across the country accusing the company of designing Instagram and Facebook to be addictive to children. The deal, announced August 26, is the largest state consumer-protection settlement on record outside the tobacco settlements of the 1990s, according to…

The Villages Health System, the primary care network built to serve Florida’s sprawling retirement community, has agreed to pay $541.5 million to resolve allegations that it caused false diagnosis codes to be sent to Medicare Advantage insurers so it could collect bigger payments. The Department of Justice announced the deal on August 26, calling it…

The Federal Trade Commission is in the middle of another round of payments to Amazon Flex drivers whose tips the company secretly kept years ago. This time the money is arriving by Zelle rather than a paper check, aimed specifically at drivers who never cashed the check the agency mailed them the first time around.…

Borrowers who dealt with the student loan giant Navient during its years as one of the country’s largest federal loan servicers may already be part of a $120 million settlement that started paying out earlier this year. The money comes from a federal case accusing the company of steering struggling borrowers into a costly repayment…

Google’s Play Store customers who spent money on apps and in-app purchases between August 2016 and September 2023 are starting to see money move back into their accounts. A federal judge signed off on the $700 million antitrust settlement earlier this month, clearing the final legal hurdle in a five-year fight over how Google ran…

More than five million people who held a Capital One 360 Savings account between September 2019 and June 2025 are due money from a $425 million class-action settlement, and Capital One says every eligible customer is included without filing anything. The checks and electronic payments were supposed to start moving around July 21, 2026. They…

More than 640,000 Grubhub drivers and diners across the country are being paid this month in one of the Federal Trade Commission’s larger food-delivery enforcement actions on record. The agency is distributing more than $23.8 million total after finding that Grubhub misled drivers about their potential earnings and blocked diners from their own accounts and…

If you were an AT&T customer with an unlimited data plan years ago, the government may still owe you money, and it is trying again to get it to you. The Federal Trade Commission is now sending refunds by Zelle to former AT&T customers who were mailed a check earlier but never cashed it. No…