Monday, February 11, 2002

Officer calls for refund of 'speeding' fines HARTFORD - A hearing officer for the state Department of Consumer Protection recommended yesterday that a New Haven rental car company be ordered to refund the ''speeding'' fines it levied after tracking customers with satellites. Hearing officer Robert H. Brinton Jr. also recommended that Acme Rent-a-Car be prohibited from fining customers in the future. The company had used global positioning system satellites to track its cars and had fined renters $150 each time a car exceeded 79 mph for more than two minutes. ... [Source: Associated Press, 8 Feb 2002] http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/039/metro/Officer_calls_for_refund_of_speeding_fines+.shtml [Monty Solomon via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 91] 0:00 # G!