Defendants Must Have Appropriate Scientific Support for Pesticide and Drug Claims Two marketers of unproven cedar oil-based remedies for bed bugs and head lice have agreed to enter into settlements with the Federal Trade Commission…
Largest Civil Penalty Ever Obtained by the FTC Against a Third-party Debt Collector The world’s largest debt collection operation, Expert Global Solutions and its subsidiaries, has agreed to stop harassing consumers with allegedly illegal debt…
Commission Announces Case on 10th Anniversary of National Do Not Call Registry 10 Years of Do Not Call graphic – click the image to view full-size. Mortgage Investors Corporation, one of the nation’s leading refinancers…
Written By: Kate Farrish A Westport plastic surgeon who is on probation and was fined $29,000 in 2011 has had his center’s license temporarily suspended after state inspectors found several new violations, including rusty equipment…
Written by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Jennifer LaFleur A screen shot of Bystolic’s website. This story was co-published with NPR. When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced a…
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy Monday signed a critical law for condo owners that requires banks to reimburse condo associations for maintenance in case of foreclosures. The reason the bill was critical because two judges…
Payment Processing Company Named for Assisting, Facilitating Telemarketing Fraud The Federal Trade Commission continued its crackdown on credit card rate reduction scams by adding eight new defendants to a case the agency brought last year,…
After initially refusing government requests that it recall 2.7 million older model Jeeps, Chrysler backed down today and announced a massive recall. The recall include Cherokee and Liberty models that can catch on fire if…
By: Lisa Chedekel Connecticut has become a national leader in a “critical but quiet revolution” in policies to reduce youth incarceration, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Juvenile Justice Network and the…
Written By: Colleen McKown and Lisa Chedekel When Said Nedlouf’s wife, Mary, was terminally ill with metastatic breast cancer in late 2006, Nedlouf was willing to do anything to save her. He found Dr. Jarir…
Written By Kate Farrish A Durham nursing home has been fined $2,000 for lapses in patient care in connection with an outbreak of viral respiratory illnesses at the home in April, in which four patients…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to invalidate a Utah company’s long-held patents on genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer is expected to result in the test being more accessible to women, at a…
Selling or donating your timeshare, or hoping to land a great deal on a vacation getaway? You might be particularly vulnerable to certain scams, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein and Attorney…
Chrysler is recalling 630,300 newer-model Jeep SUVs for defects. “Some 409,200 Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot SUVs from model years 2010 to 2012 will be recalled because a software glitch may delay deployment of side…
As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing crackdown on payment processors that turn a blind eye to fraud, the agency sued a payment processing business that allegedly assisted and facilitated a telemarketing credit card…
Chrysler Group, in a rare challenge, is refusing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration request to recall 2.7 million Grand Cherokees and Jeep Libertys. NHTSA claims that the gas tank design used in 1993 to…
Written by Joe Sexton The New York Criminal Court (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) It wasn’t much of a case: Queens prosecutors wanted to prosecute a woman for having falsely reported her car stolen in a bid…
By: Kate Farrish The state Medical Examining Board on Tuesday imposed no disciplinary action against a Greenwich Hospital anesthesiologist who in 2010 administered a nerve block on the wrong arm of a patient who was…
By: Lisa Chedekel Three nursing homes in southeastern Connecticut face state fines of more than $1,000 for lapses in care cited by the Department of Public Health. • Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Crossings East of…
The state Department of Public Health has penalized six nursing homes for lapses in care that contributed to residents’ injuries. In one case, a resident of Middlesex Health Care Center of Middletown who was cognitively…