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Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL CORBETT ANNOUNCES $259,000 SETTLEMENT WITH HOMEWARD BOUND FOR DEFRAUDING ELDERLY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 22, 2007
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The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office issued the following news release:
A Pennsylvania-based home health care provider has reached a $259,000 settlement with the Attorney General's Elder Abuse Unit for defrauding elderly consumers by misrepresenting the actual service it provided to its customers.
Attorney General Tom Corbett said the agreement was reached with Homeward Bound Services, Inc., which is based in Drexel Hill, and its affiliates.
From 1999 to 2005, Homeward Bound allegedly deceived elderly Pennsylvanians into purchasing a non-medical home health care service program by marketing it as a long-term care insurance policy.
"Homeward Bound deliberately deceived elderly ...