price-fixing

    By Jorgen Wouters

    | 2:53PM 9/30/2010
    Panasonic Corp. and a Whirlpool Corp. subsidiary agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges and pay $140.9 million in criminal fines for their roles in a price-fixing plot, the Department of Justice announced. Panasonic, a Japanese corporation, and Embraco, a Delaware-based refrigerant...

    By Jorgen Wouters

    | 5:45PM 7/21/2010
    The Federal Trade Commission approved a final order settling allegations that U-Haul invited its main competitor, Budget, to fix truck-rental prices. The settlement, which followed a public comment period, bars U-Haul and its parent company, AMERCO, from colluding or inviting collusion. Under the...