Personal Injury Law

AT&T Accused of Illegal Billing

By Edward Bills

The Harris County Hospital District in Houston has filed a lawsuit against AT&T, claiming the company overcharged them by $2 million during the 1990s. The lawsuit alleges that Southwestern Bell, which is now a part of AT&T, charged customers a higher fee than they were required to pay back to the city of Houston for renting land to install power lines, thus skimming illegal profits off the top. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said that AT&T was collecting fees from the hospital district under the guise that the money would go back into the Harris County community, but instead went right into AT&T’s pockets. The county has hired private attorneys to determine whether other branches of county government have a claim to past overcharges, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).