In what may be the largest settlement involving auto defects, Toyota Motor Corp. Wednesday agreed to pay as much a $1.4 billion to resolve hundreds of lawsuits stemming from acceleration problems. “This agreement marks a…
Written by Marian Wang California gardener Francisco Reynoso’s son died in a car accident in 2008, burying the father in student debt. Now, four years later, Reynoso has finally reached a legal resolution. (J. Emilio…
FTC Strengthens Kids’ Privacy, Gives Parents Greater Control Over Their Information By Amending Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule Rule Being Modified to Keep Up with Changing Technology The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to…
Why do many women earn less in high paying jobs than their male counterparts? One reason, according to Bloomberg Businessweek is that women are less likely to haggle for a larger starting salary. “A Carnegie…
FTC Shuts Down Another Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Scheme Case is Sixth Advance-Fee Telemarketing Complaint Filed in Just Over a Month For the sixth time in just over a month, the Federal Trade Commission…
Major retailers spend millions of dollars in sophisticated marketing strategies to get us to buy their products – whether we need them or not. But there are simple tricks that many use that are very…
FTC Settlement Puts an End to “History Sniffing” by Online Advertising Network Charged With Deceptively Gathering Data on Consumers Network Tracked Interest in Sensitive Medical and Financial Issues, Agency Says An online advertising company agreed…
Written by Colleen Shaddox Connecticut is using a shrinking pool of federal funding for HIV/AIDS prevention to focus on getting more people into treatment, particularly men whose sexual activity puts them at risk. New HIV/AIDS…
Hurricane Sandy damaged or destroyed about 230,000 vehicles, mostly in New York and New Jersey, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, and it’s possible that at least some of these vehicles will end up…
As the country slowly repairs the damage from years of easy credit for mortgages and credit cards, a new financial danger looms: student loans. In an insightful Wall Street Journal story today, the newspaper said…
The Federal Trade Commission has warned 22 hotel operators that their online reservation sites may violate the law by providing a deceptively low estimate of what consumers can expect to pay for their hotel rooms….
Consumer Reports, the Bible for consumers, is accused of tracking visitors to its web site while warning its readers against the tracking practice. AdAge says Consumer Reports uses the same kinds of tracking codes as…
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi says the Connecticut Insurance Department recovered approximately $2.3 million for policyholders and state taxpayers in the 3rd quarter of 2012. The Department’s Consumer Affairs Unit (CAU) fielded more than…
Written by Lisa Chedekel The state will receive $1.6 million as part of a $90 million multi-state settlement with the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to resolve allegations that the company unlawfully promoted its diabetes drug, Avandia….
Field records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, needed to document combat injuries, disability claims and the simple history of both wars, were never kept, were destroyed or simply cannot be found, a ProPublica-Seattle…
(Image: Flickr) by Lois Beckett Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data companies. Responding to…
by Paul Kiel Rebecca Mairone, then at Bank of America, testifies to the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2010. Mairone now heads JPMorgan Chase’s involvement in the Independent Foreclosure…
Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today unveiled a new state website created to give military veterans one-stop access to the wide range of veterans’ services and benefits offered by the state…
Copyright CtPetLovers.com 2012 Their patients can’t talk, but it doesn’t mean that Connecticut’s 1,345 licensed veterinarians get a free pass when they are negligent. A review of Connecticut Health Department records by CtPetLovers.com shows that…
(Image: The Associated Press) by Paul Kiel The Obama administration launched its main program to prevent foreclosures in the spring of 2009 with $50 billion and abundant promises. What the Home Affordable Modification Program, or…