Category: Consumer Protection
“Magnetic Maze” Wooden Game Boards are Recalled Due to Choking, Intestinal and Aspiration Hazards
HARTFORD, August 30 – “Magnets are dangerous for young children, not only because they could lodge in a child’s throat or nasal passages, but if two or more magnets are swallowed, they can attract each other and cause intestinal perforations or blockages which can be fatal,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. said today in [...]
Conn Officials Turn Up The Heat On Rite Aid Price Increases
Following a request by Conn. Gov. Rell, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP), today issued a subpoena to Rite Aid demanding information about significant changes and price increases to a discount drug program that the company falsely blamed on a new state law. The law requires pharmacies to [...]
“Zooper” Tango Double Strollers Are Recalled Due to Collapse Hazard
HARTFORD, August 24 – Nearly 4,000 “Zooper” Tango double strollers made in 2007 and 2008 with a model number of SL808B and SL808F are being recalled for repair, Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. said today. “The stroller’s frame latch above the front wheels can fail when the stroller hits an object, causing [...]
Retired Detective Learns First Hand About Phone Cramming
Greg Dillon is learning first-hand about cramming. The retired law enforcement officer, turned gym owner in Cheshire, Ct., was too busy to look closely at his AT&T telephone bill for months. But when he did, Dillon discovered that he had been paying $52 a month for what was to have been a free Internet listing [...]
AT&T Accused Of Improperly Damaging Rocky Hill Woman’s Credit
A lot of people have bones to pick with AT&T, including Anita Cella of Rocky Hill, Ct. She is trying to refinance her mortgage but is having problems because she said AT&T improperly sent her old account to collections for an $83 bill that she said she does not owe. Three years ago when I [...]
Circus World Recalls Wireless Video Baby Monitors Due to Overheating Hazard
HARTFORD, August 18 — Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. is alerting consumers about the recall of Levana Wireless Video Baby Monitors, distributed by Circus World Displays Limited of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Circus World, is recalling the baby monitors because the wiring in the monitor [...]
Free Cruise Anything But Free
Elaine DiVenere, a Bristol waitress, will probably never think of “free” the same way again.
Two years ago, when DiVenere was 18, she filled out a “win a free vacation” sweepstakes ticket.
Wooden Toy Rattles are Recalled Due to Choking Hazard
HARTFORD, August 11 — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with P. Graham Dunn, of Dalton, Ohio today announced a voluntary recall of wooden toy rattles, the Department of Consumer Protection reported today. The recall involves a wooden toy rattle with light brown stain, eight wooden dowels and a gold-colored metal rattle inside. [...]
Bond Dinettes’ Twisted Version Of Its History
Customers of Bond Dinettes in Newington, Ct., may want to go to the company’s website to either cry or laugh at the owners’ version of why they closed their store last weekend and why many customers still don’t have their custom orders that they paid for or made deposits on. The lengthy explanation – including [...]
Bond Dinettes Closes Its Newington Store
Bond Dinettes, after lying to many of its customer and harassing some who demanded that promises be met, has shut its business, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said tonight. Blumenthal, who in the spring was asked to take legal action against Bond by state Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr., claimed that he reached an [...]
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