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August 9, 2017 - Nationwide Mutual Insurance company will pay a $5.5 million settlement for the 2012 data breach that exposed personal information for an estimated 1.27 million consumers, state officials said Wednesday. Carried out by computer hackers, the data breach scooped up Social Security numbers, drivers license data, credit scoring information and...

August 1, 2017 - Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is fighting a lawsuit seeking to block him from investigating Backpage.com. Hawley filed a motion Tuesday against Backpage, arguing its lawsuit is frivolous and should be tossed out. Hawley launched an investigation of the company this year and in May issued civil investigative demands seeking...

July 27, 2017 - A debt collection law firm that allegedly used unfair and deceptive practices to collect debts from thousands of Massachusetts consumers will pay $1 million and change its practices under a court settlement, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Thursday. Lustig, Glaser & Wilson, P.C., the largest debt collection law firm in the state,...

July 17, 2017 - New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intends to sue the federal government if Republican lawmakers pass proposed legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, his office said on Monday. Schneiderman's office said it has identified "multiple constitutional defects" with the Republican healthcare bills. The U.S. Senate is...

July 13, 2017 - Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued CenturyLink on Wednesday as she alleged that the internet, phone and cable television provider frequently billed Minnesota customers at higher rates than its sales agents quoted. Flanked by Minnesotans who have filed some of the “hundreds” of complaints about charges they say they didn’t agree...

July 6, 2017 - A group of 19 state attorneys general is suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for delaying an overhaul of rules to erase the federal student debt of borrowers defrauded by colleges. “With no notice, with no opportunity for comment … the DeVos team is trying to cancel this rule,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who is leading...

June 30, 2017 - Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter sued more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies Friday — accusing them of making fraudulent marketing claims that greatly understated the addictive risks of opioid painkillers while overstating the treatment benefits. "We've had almost 3,000 overdose deaths in the last three years in Oklahoma," Hunter...

June 20, 2017 - Kentucky's Democratic attorney general sued the Republican governor on Tuesday, marking the fourth time taxpayers will pay for the state's two most powerful politicians to collide in court. Attorney General Andy Beshear's latest lawsuit says Gov. Matt Bevin is using executive orders to rewrite state laws without the approval of the state...

June 13, 2017 - Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday joined a coalition of 11 attorneys general in a lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to implement energy-efficiency standards. The suit contends that the US Department of Energy is violating federal law by delaying standards for portable air conditioners, walk-in...