FDN Solutions, LLC Web Advertisements Claimed Company Could Reduce Debt by 40 to 60 % The Federal Trade Commission put a stop to the allegedly deceptive practices of a debt settlement operation that lured consumers…
The aging of the population brings its own set of medical problems and foremost among these is the increased likelihood of disability due to diseases or other causes. Although care for the elderly and care…
Call me a curmudgeon, but is anyone else annoyed by the proliferation of hospital advertising? You literally cannot open a newspaper or turn on the radio or TV without being bombarded with advertisements for hospitals…
Consumers Who Bought Shape-ups, Other Toning Shoes Will Be Eligible for Refunds If you got sucked into buying a pair of Skechers Toning Shoes believing that they would help you lose weight, strengthen and tone…
Following a public comment period, the FTC has accepted as final an order with CVS Caremark settling charges that it misrepresented the prices of certain Medicare Part D prescription drugs, including drugs used to treat…
Do you know what the most dangerous word for consumers is? FREE . More people have been cheated out of money by those four letters than any other marketing tactic that I can think of….
Two West Hartford residents who were thrown out of one of largest medical practices in the state for complaining about its billing practice have won at least a minor victory by forcing the group to…
The Gaylord Farms Rehabilitation Center of Wallingford has been cited by the state Department of Public Health for an incident in which a patient with a traumatic brain injury took the facility’s van keys, drove…
Written by Lisa Chedekel A doctor practicing at Norwalk Hospital whose license status was questioned in a C-HIT story in December has been reprimanded and fined by the Connecticut Medical Examining Board. The board recently…
I wanted to update you today on the status of the elderly in Connecticut and how they fared during the recent record setting event – that being the number of people who went without power after…
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has closed hundreds of public corruption investigations and several high-profile probes of businesses that were launched by his predecessor, Richard Blumenthal, now U.S. Senator who considers himself a consumer champion,…
Claudette, a nurse in Eastern Connecticut, faces an unenviable choice: Pay as much as $3,000 in an out of court settlement or take a chance that her full identify is revealed if a porn company…
Written by Lisa Chedekel Clifford Berken The state Department of Public Health has overruled a medical board decision that would have allowed a Greenwich physician who is registered as a sex offender to resume his…
Consumers who will be making charitable donations in upcoming weeks and months may want to double check to be sure their donation will be tax deductible, the Department of Consumer Protection advised today. On Wednesday,…
The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection entered into Assurances of Voluntary Compliance today with The Kirby Company and its Connecticut distributors to settle charges that the vacuum cleaner company, along with some of its Connecticut…
Real estate experts warn us to take at least as much care, if not more, checking out a condo than a single family home prior to purchase. That goes double for small associations with less…
Revelations about The Hartford Courant’s high rate structure for mandatory public advertisements continue, with an East Hartford lawyer claiming that he had to pay a higher fee for a Courant legal notice than for any…