Personal Injury Law

City of Des Moines, Iowa to seek Separate Suits in Fee Lawsuit

By Edward Bills

For the fourth time, the city of Des Moines is asking a judge to force utility customers who were overcharged on electric and natural gas bills to pursue their claims separately, the Des Moines Register reports. The class-action lawsuit stems from a 5 percent franchise fee charged to utility customers from at least 2004 to the present. Last month a judge found that the city had overcharged customers by $9 million a year since initiating the fee.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).