Comcast Beats Claims That It Lured Cable Installers Into Ruin

Comcast and two cable installers beat a lawsuit accusing them of driving other installers out of business by tricking them into unsustainably ramping up their operations, then pulling the rug out.

The suit by two defunct installation companies, Cable Line Inc. and McLaughlin Communications Inc., failed to back up claims that Comcast sought “to induce consolidation in the cable installation market” as a way of increasing its leverage, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled April 19 in an unpublished decision.

The complaint also named Decisive Communications and Vitel Communications—allegedly the last Philadelphia-area cable installers standing—as defendants. ...