By: Jennifer Kaylin and Lisa Chedekel Hospital administrators in Connecticut who have been involved in the unprecedented streak of mergers and consolidations often tout the financial benefits and efficiencies of such moves. But as the…
A federal court has found that marketers of bogus remedies for treating and preventing diabetes violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, and has ordered them to pay nearly $2.2 million. The FTC will use…
Toyota has agreed to pay a $1.2-billion fine after being accused of failing to take action after it learned that hundreds of thousands of its vehicles could suddenly accelerate. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said…
Defendants behind AMG Services Had Argued That Tribal Affiliation Exempts Them from Federal Law U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro handed the Federal Trade Commission a significant victory in its crackdown on deceptive payday lenders,…
General Motors announced new recalls of 1.5 million vehicles on Monday and its chief executive admitted that the company made a mistake in delaying recalls for faulty ignition switches linked to 12 deaths. “Something went…
Honda is recalling about 900,000 of its Odyssey minivans because they could catch on fire. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that 2005-2010 Odysseys built in Alabama have a fuel-pump part that could…
GM – already facing criticism for delaying recalls due to defective ignition switches – is now facing accusations that 303 people died after the airbags in their cars failed to deploy following accidents. “The review…
Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into whether GM violated criminal laws by waiting 10 years to recall hundreds of thousands of vehicles for serious safety issues. The New York Times says the investigation…
By: Kate Farrish A Chester nursing home has been fined $1,730 by the state in connection with incidents of verbal and physical abuse of residents and for failing to report rashes to a doctor for…
Home Security Company ADT Settles FTC Charges that Endorsements Deceived Consumers Company’s Paid Spokespersons Failed to Disclose Their Connection to ADT. As part of its ongoing crackdown on misleading endorsements in advertising, the Federal Trade…
Complaint Snapshot Report Shows Military Consumers Not Seeing Protections They Earned The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) \says that servicemembers, veterans, and their families who complained to the Bureau about financial products or services have…
Defendants Allegedly Misled Consumers into Paying Unnecessary Fees and Falsely Threatened Them with Lawsuits An administrator working for the Federal Trade Commission is mailing 3,852 checks averaging $91.14 each to consumers who were deceived into…
For about four years state attorneys general in Connecticut and other states have been investigating consumer complaints against Sirius satellite radio service. There is no indication when the investigation will be completed. But for Sirius…
Bureau Report Finds Accuracy Issues Top Credit Report Complaints; Warns on Avoiding Investigations Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) called on the nation’s top credit card companies to make credit scores and related content…
Consumers Lost Thousands of Dollars Each After Being Told They Could Earn Income Through Online Businesses At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court entered a temporary restraining order halting a deceptive work-from-home scheme…
ITT Pushed Consumers into High-Cost Student Loans Likely to Fail Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against ITT Educational Services, Inc., accusing the for-profit college chain of predatory student lending. The…
General Motors (GM) is recalling 1.6 million small cars to fix faulty ignition switches linked to multiple fatal crashes. The automaker recalled more than 780,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s earlier this month. It is…
A company that provides medical transcription services has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its inadequate data security measures unfairly exposed the personal information of thousands of consumers on the open Internet, in…
Twelve defendants that allegedly operated websites enticing consumers with bogus offers of “free $1,000 gift cards” for major retailers have agreed to pay $2.5 million in settlements with the Federal Trade Commission. In an amended…
Scam artists are forever trying to trick people into clicking on links that will download malware to their computers. But the latest scam takes the trick to a new low. Scammers are sending bogus emails…