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Company: ThompsonGas-Smokies LLC and Suburban Gas Propane Partners LLC
Penalty: $500,000
Year: 2014
Date: July 18, 2014
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: ThompsonGas-Smokies LLC and Suburban Gas Propane Partners LLC jointly paid $500,000 to settle alleged violations of the Alabama Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Attorney General's complaint alleged that in May 2012 Thompson and Suburban billed approximately 2,000 of their customers a minimum usage or non-usage fee ranging from $192.80 to $706.80. Many of these customers were the result of Thompson's and Suburban's acquisition of other propane companies, with which the customers had varying contracts that did not necessarily provide for the charging of such fees.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Alabama Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Alabama
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