Monthly Archives: December 2009

NY Firms Illegally Selling Used Mattresses In Conn, State Alleges

December 22, 2009
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Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. is announcing that his agency has filed complaints against Industrial Mattress, LLC, and Ellianna Bedding, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., for alleged violations of the state’s bedding and upholstered furniture laws and the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. Since spring of 2009, both companies have held Connecticut licenses for...

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Blumenthal Accuses Anthem Of ‘Straitjacketing’ Hospitals, Doctors

December 21, 2009
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Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called on the president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) to abandon contractual clauses that are restraining and straitjacketing Connecticut hospitals and doctors and severely constraining the state’s Charter Oak Health Plan for the uninsured. Blumenthal is conducting an ongoing antitrust investigation into Anthem’s use of “Most Favored Nation”...

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U.S. Says Airlines Must Let Us Free After Three Hours

December 21, 2009
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The amazing thing is that it took this long. The astonishing thing is that the travel consumer only now can look to the government for even the most basic help: Being freed from a stationary aircraft parked on a tarmac for hours and hours and hours. Well, take it when you get it. In...

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Who Wants Geese A-Laying Eggs? Travel Gifts

December 21, 2009
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As our time and money begin to run low (begin?) the Santa’s sack of travel remains full of deals and bargains. A few more: – From Gate 1 there’s a great deal on the Holy Land: Nine days hotel and air in Jerusalem (or Tel Aviv or both) for only $649. You need to...

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