Planning a vacation visit to any number of our great cities, it’s possible to be left breathless by the array of choices of must-see things to do — and the expense of doing them. There may be ways to look for less expensive hotels and more reasonable restaurants, but the tourist attraction prices aren’t...
After years of grumbling about banks ripping their customers off with overdraft fees intended to inflict the most amount of damage, a suit seeking class action has finally been filed in Connecticut. The West Hartford consumer law firm of Izard Nobel (our prime sponsor) has filed filed a suit against Webster Bank accusing the...
Do you know who Spencer Barasch is? You should. He’s the Steve Bartman of the financial world. Bartman ruined the Cubs’ chance to make the World Series in 2003. Barasch, as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth, Texas enforcement office, turned down repeated attempts to go after accused swindler R. Allen...
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today expressed outrage over reports that United Healthcare paid its CEO $102 million in compensation last year and called on the state Department of Insurance to consider executive pay in future company rate cases. United Healthcare recently acquired Health Net. “I was shocked to learn that United Healthcare, the company...
