Public Service Commission investigates meter reader complaints

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 12, 2013
Tags: complaints, electricity, investigation, Law, legal news, maryland, meter reader, Public Service Commission, sugarloaf conservancy

The Maryland Public Service Commission says it’s investigating complaints that Potomac Edison overbilled some western Maryland electricity customers by failing to read their meters as often as required. The agency opened a case file Tuesday on customer complaints that their meters were read less often than every other month, as required. The Frederick-based Sugarloaf Conservancy [...]

Pepco will not appeal $1 million outage fine

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 22, 2011
Tags: complaints, customers, electric company, Maryland Public Service Commission, outages, pepco, thunderstorms, tree trimming, underground cable, upgrading technology

WASHINGTON — Pepco says a $1 million fine imposed by The Maryland Public Service Commission for long outages in 2010 was harsh, but the company will not appeal the decision. The electric company was fined Wednesday for failing to maintain its system properly over a period of years and subjecting customers to long outages too [...]

U.S. airlines improved on-time rates in July

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 12, 2011
Tags: airline delays, airlines, airplanes, airport, complaints, continental, department of transportation, miami, on-time, philadephia, u.s. airlines

NEW YORK — U.S. airlines curbed long delays in July and improved their overall on-time rates compared with both a month and year earlier, the Department of Transportation said Monday. Only one plane got stuck on the tarmac for more than three hours in July — a Continental flight from Miami to Newark, N.J. It [...]

BGE doesn’t expect to use peak response program

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 28, 2011
Tags: air conditioning, baltimore gas and electric, BGE, complaints, Energy, heat, heat wave, hot weather, Maryland Public Service Commission, peakrewards, program

Baltimore Gas and Electric says more hot weather is coming, but it doesn’t expect it will need to use a demand response program that prompted complaints from customers and a review by state regulators. The Maryland Public Service Commission is reviewing complaints from some participants in the program that allows the utility to turn off [...]

City to add a step for criminal complaints

BY: Brendan Kearney
POSTED: March 9, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, complaints, criminal, Judge John R. Hargrove Jr., maryland, Maryland District Court, State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein

People who bring a criminal complaint to a Maryland District Court commissioner in Baltimore will soon have to meet with a prosecutor within a few days of lodging the charges or risk having the case dropped before trial, according to a plan announced Wednesday by two of the city’s newest criminal justice leaders. Judge John [...]

Attorney misconduct claims rise in Maryland

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: January 9, 2011
Tags: agc, Attorney Grievance Commission, Baltimore, Bar Counsel Glenn M. Grossman, clients, complaints, disbarred, dishonesty, escrow, lawyers, maryland, Maryland State Bar Association, misconduct, MSBA, Rules of Professional Conduct

The relationship between Maryland lawyers and their clients apparently has soured in the past 18 months. Lawyers allegedly have been communicating less with their clients, dipping into client escrow funds more and engaging in more dishonesty, according to a report the state’s Attorney Grievance Commission released last week. The AGC said it received 2,003 complaints [...]

TSA: Pilots to be exempt from some airport checks

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 19, 2010
Tags: airports, american airlines, angry, baggage checks, checks, complaints, delta airlines, passengers, pilots, protests, screening, security, tsa

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration says airline pilots will be allowed to skip some physical security checks at airports. Pilots have complained about being held up in airport security lines with travelers, and forced to go through screening. TSA now says that pilots traveling in uniform or on airline business will see immediate changes [...]

Supreme Court grapples with verbal v. written complaints

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 13, 2010
Tags: complaints, kevin kasten, Supreme Court, verbal, written

WASHINGTON — If an employee tells a supervisor of a potentially illegal act, can that be considered filing a complaint? The Supreme Court grappled with that question Wednesday in the firing of Kevin Kasten. Kasten complained to Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics that the time clocks were placed in an illegal location. The company fired him, and [...]