Refunds

JetBlue Airways Corp. said it would issue full refunds to eligible customers who lose their jobs after buying tickets. Customers who book flights between Feb. 1 and June 1 and lost their jobs Tuesday or later may be eligible for the JetBlue Promise Program. JetBlue fares are generally nonrefundable. Customers must notify JetBlue and request a full refund at least two weeks before the first day of travel.

Lady Gaga isn't letting her ill-fated tour with Kanye West keep her from her fans. A day after her joint tour with the rapper was canceled, the pop star said Friday she'll be hitting the road solo. The West and Lady Gaga tour was supposed to kick off Nov. 10 in Phoenix. Lady Gaga said the two "mutually decided to cancel the tour." She said that West is "going to take some time off, but I'm not." Gaga made the comments before accepting the Rising Star honor at Billboard's annual Women in Music event in New York, where Beyoncé was honored as woman of the year.

Chrysler says it will reissue checks to frustrated customers awaiting payments stemming from lemon law complaints against the automaker. Lawyers throughout the country had reported that dozens of settlement checks had bounced in the wake of Chrysler's April 30 bankruptcy filing.

California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has quietly dropped an effort to seek refunds for Allstate Corp. policyholders who might have paid too much for their homeowners' coverage in recent years. Critics immediately denounced his decision. On July 10, Poizner announced that Allstate had been ordered to slash its homeowners' rates by 28.5% for policies that begin or renew after July 30.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will refund $160 million that it overcharged other government agencies for more than a decade, the state attorney general's office announced Monday.

Nearly 1 million customers of Allstate Corp. appear to be paying too much for home insurance and may get partial refunds, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said Wednesday. He ordered the insurance giant to face hearings this summer before an administrative law judge. If the judge and Poizner conclude that rates are excessive, the commissioner said he would seek refunds that could total millions of dollars. "I am drawing a line in the sand," Poizner said.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must reconsider its denial of refunds to wholesale customers of Powerex Corp. and other electric companies in the Pacific Northwest during the 2000-01 California energy crisis, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. FERC must review rejected claims by cities including Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled.

What if the government tried to give American taxpayers some of their money back but the taxpayers didn't seem to want it? That's what happened this year as taxpayers collected only about half the $8 billion the Internal Revenue Service expected to pay them in its phone tax refund, the most far-reaching refund in the agency's history. The telephone excise tax was created in 1898 to fund the Spanish-American War.

The full extent of accused swindler Norman Hsu's political network was revealed for the first time Monday in campaign finance reports filed by presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who refunded $804,850 in contributions from 249 Hsu associates. The donors came from 22 states and Washington, D.C., but Californians accounted for the largest amount refunded from the Hsu network, $308,000.

Hillary Rodham Clinton returned more than $800,000 in contributions donated to her presidential campaign that were arranged by alleged swindler Norman Hsu. But campaign officials said Tuesday they had no plans to return more than $260,000 that many of the same donors gave to her Senate political accounts. Officials said they would return those contributions only if requested to do so by individual contributors.