The Justice Department announced three False Claims Act settlements totaling $61.2 million on Aug. 24, resolving allegations against companies working in health care, federal data services and environmental remediation. Tetra Tech paid $57 million. Monogram Health agreed to pay $2.4 million. AiNET Corp. and its former chief executive, agreed to pay $1.8 million.
The Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a proposed settlement with Zillow and Redfin that would dismantle certain provisions of their 2025 agreement and require Redfin to rebuild the rental advertising business it abandoned. Redfin would have six months after the order becomes final to reenter the market for internet listing services, the websites through which renters search for apartments and property managers advertise them.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed proceedings in the Federal Court on Friday against Subaru, accusing the company of breaching Australia’s Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme, or MVIS.
Poland’s consumer protection authority has opened proceedings against parcel-shipping platform Furgonetka over contract terms that allow additional charges to be imposed after delivery and require consumers to pursue complaints through carriers with which they have no contract.
The Malta Financial Services Authority worked through 943 potential enforcement cases in 2025. Ninety-one ended in enforcement actions and administrative penalties totaling €570,673, but the clearest pattern in the regulator’s year was not buried in its more complicated investigations. It was there in the calendar.
For more than two years, City Beach sold toys, keyrings, digital notepads, lights and other products containing button batteries that did not meet Australia’s mandatory safety rules. There were more than 54,000 sales in all. Many of the products were meant for children. The bill for that failure remains $9.9 million (AUD 14 million).
A consumer looking to pay a utility bill or car loan might reasonably assume that typing the biller's name into a search engine and clicking on a result would take them where they needed to go. The Federal Trade Commission says Doxo found a profitable place inside that assumption.