Lawsuit filed against O.C.’s water supplier

Orange County’s water supplier, Metropolitan Water District, is facing a lawsuit accusing the company of unfair business practices and willful misrepresentation. The lawsuit, filed by an attorney in California, claims that the water supplier uses a chemical in its water that they say helps prevent tooth decay, but has never been approved to do so.…

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Quest Diagnostics settles unfair business practices lawsuit

In a whistleblower unfair business practice lawsuit, Quest Diagnostics recently agreed to pay $241 million to the state’s Medi-Cal program.  A worker at another medical laboratory reported the unfair business practices saying that Quest Diagnostics’ practices gave them an unfair and illegal advantage over other laboratories. The lawsuit accused Quest Diagnostics of overcharging Medi-Cal and…

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