"Mercury has a deserved reputation for abusing its customers and intentionally violating the law with arrogance and indifference," the state department wrote in a Feb. 20, 2009, legal filing related to its administrative case.
Since 2006, the state has fined Mercury $600,000 for violations based on its own examinations and for consumer complaints about the firm, state officials said.
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