The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection is alerting parents and children’s caregivers to a new recall of children’s sunglasses that have been deemed unsafe due to excessive levels of lead. Consumers should immediately take these…
By: Lisa Chedekel The state needs to enlist pediatricians in screening children for mental health problems, expand school-based counseling services and create regional “care management entities” to help families access treatment, a draft report by…
By: Kate Farrish The state Department of Public Health has shut down eight blood collection centers because they were operating without a license or certificate. DPH issued a cease and desist order Aug. 29 against…
The states have passed hard-nosed laws and taken an aggressive tack toward employers who misclassify independent contractors. by Ryann Grochowski Jones, ProPublica, and Mike Fitzgerald, Belleville News-Democrat Jon Gould, a Carpenters Union job site…
Google to Refund Consumers at Least $19 Million to Settle FTC Complaint It Unlawfully Billed Parents for Children’s Unauthorized In-App Charges FTC Order Requires Google to Change its Mobile App Billing Practices to Ensure Consumers’…
By: Kate Farrish Eight nursing homes have been fined more than $1,000 each by the state Department of Public Health in connection with incidents in which residents sustained cuts or broken bones or suffered from…
By: Liz Seegert Doug Crocker knows a thing or two about driving. The 74-year-old former Hartford police officer and his wife have navigated the continental U.S. three times in their motor home. Even experienced drivers…
Consumers Can Be Hit With Surprise Charges After Signing Up for Credit Card Interest-Rate Promotions The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is warned credit card companies against deceptively marketing interest-rate promotions. The Bureau is concerned…
By: Karen Weintraub For the last 50 years, men have consistently had an easier time quitting smoking than women. More men go cold turkey. More men stop on nicotine blockers like gum and patches. More…
By: Susan Campbell This is not original with me, but what if all women living in the U.S. wore their weight written on small placards around their necks? (Mine would say “150.” Let’s just get…
The Federal Trade Commission asked a federal court to shut down a scam that targeted financially distressed Americans by pitching a phony debt relief and credit repair program, and by falsely claiming the program was…
First Investors Fined $2.75 Million for Knowingly Providing Inaccurate Information to Credit Reporting Agencies for Years The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking action against an auto finance company that distorted consumer credit records…
By: Lisa Chedekel With obesity rates rising among children, leaders of the nation’s top children’s hospitals are recommending that primary care pediatricians help to identify and treat four related medical conditions, previously found in adults,…
By: Kate Farrish Seven nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with medication errors and incidents that led residents to be burned or break a leg. In two…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today put an end to a servicemember fee scam run by USA Discounters, Ltd., a company that operates a chain of retail stores near military bases and offers financing…
CFPB Now Accepting Complaints on Virtual Currency Products and Services The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a consumer advisory warning consumers about the risks of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. The CFPB advises…
By: Magaly Olivero Thousands of Connecticut adults and children – some as young as 10 – struggle with eating disorders with many suffering secretly because the life-threatening psychiatric condition has gone undiagnosed and untreated,…
By: Cara Rosner A Waterbury nursing home has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine and hire a nursing consultant after state health inspections uncovered numerous violations at the facility, including resident neglect and unsanitary conditions….
By: Cara Rosner A Westport plastic surgery center that state health officials placed on a two-year probation last summer has closed, ending a string of disciplinary actions taken against the facility. Dr. Joel Singer, the…
By: Cara Rosner Six nursing homes were cited by the state Department of Public Health following lapses in care, including an accidental medication overdose, falls that resulted in injuries and failing to monitor residents. Paradigm…