August 10, 2018
Chesapeake Energy Inc. has reached a tentative $7.75 million settlement in two proposed class action suits over allegedly inflated costs and fees deducted from leaseholders' gas royalty payments, according to filings in Pennsylvania federal court Thursday.
April 22, 2016
A suit that Pennsylvania's attorney general is pursuing against Chesapeake Energy Corp. over allegedly shoddy deals it struck to lease property for drilling cannot be used to delay a pair of 2-year-old class actions filed by landowners claiming they were shortchanged on royalty payments, a federal judge was told in a brief Friday.