Discrimination, and moreover, discriminatory lending practices within the housing market is hardly a new problem in the American context. From “redlining”, where banks cut certain neighborhoods (usually poor or minority areas) out of mortgage lending, to predatory lending, which imposes abusive loan terms on borrowers, institutions over the years have found many ways to discriminate, Read More

Have you ever noticed your cable or phone bill skyrocket in price after a poorly-advertised “promotional pricing” period unexpectedly ended? Well, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has noticed too, saying that certain DirecTV ads misled customers – and now, they’re suing one of the worst offenders to fix it. In March of 2015, while DirecTV Read More

Consumers will remember that in 2014, General Motors (“GM”) recalled millions of small vehicles that were found to have defective, and faulty ignition switches. Design flaws in these cars allowed the ignition to slip, shutting the car off and disabling the airbag system; these flaws caused the deaths of 124 people and several hundred more Read More

Scammers often target elderly victims; they are likely to have money and are often less familiar with technology and thus less safeguarded against potential schemes. Here a few scams targeting senior citizens to be on the lookout for. The Grandparent Scam In this scam, a youthful scammer cold-calls an elderly person, calling them “Grandpa” or Read More

As second quarter earnings results were reported yesterday it looks like the Gap stays profitable in an industry struggling to adjust to changing consumer preferences and a retail environment in flux. The brand managed to show an increase in quarter-over-quarter sales across the entire company. Interestingly, this growth came entirely from a single brand under the Read More

It’s safe to say that Samsung has had a difficult year, though perhaps not as difficult as those who have been injured by their defective products have had. The company has featured heavily in the news in recent months thanks to the seemingly-unending saga regarding exploding batteries. In September 2016, Samsung recalled 97% of their Read More

Most of us go to our mailboxes expecting to find bills sandwiched between stacks of junk mail. However, lucky Verizon Wireless customers in the state of New York have been receiving unexpected checks from Verizon in the mail for refunds of a gross revenue tax from 2008 to 2014. But why exactly is Verizon issuing Read More

Class Action Settlement: Receive Up To $900 for Free Cruise Robocalls If you remember being bombarded with spam phone calls a few years ago letting you know you’ve “won a free cruise” (we here certainly do), you’re not alone; and, thanks to a recently-settled class action lawsuit, you may be eligible for compensation for these Read More

Recently, we published an article regarding the new Poland Spring Class Action Lawsuit. Shortly after we published, we were sent a Poland Spring response when a spokesperson for Nestlé Waters North America reached out to us to say the following: “For more than 170 years, Poland Spring® has delivered great tasting spring water from Maine Read More

A massive class action lawsuit has been filed against Nestle, but moreover, Poland Spring recently. The case is so large, its class period dates back to November 5, 2003. The Poland Spring Class Action alleges that, for more than twenty years, Nestle Waters’ marketing and sales of Poland Spring Water has been a colossal fraud Read More

Scams like this Government Imposter Scam have been around in one form or another for as long as anyone can remember, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that one current iteration is still getting the best of consumers. The agency says that it has received reports of scammers calling unsuspecting consumers and purporting to Read More

Retirement planning is a hot button issue, with survey after survey showing that more people worry they won’t be able to do it. A constant refrain from people in their pre-retirement years is they are unable to sock money away because of pressing current expenses — such as supporting adult children and aging parents, or meeting Read More

A couple from Hackensack, New Jersey, has come out to say that they found a battery in their burrito bowl while eating dinner at Chipotle on Monday, August 7. This Chipotle battery appears to be from a wristwatch, and definitely has less protein than the carnitas option. The couple was said to have been halfway done Read More

It has been reported that the well known, almost infamous, financial company/bank, Wells Fargo, has been automatically signing up car loan borrowers with car insurance, even if these customers were already covered. The company then demanded payment for these car premiums and put hundreds of thousands of people into default. If you have had any Wells Fargo Read More

For some time, it looked likely that a measure would be passed that would ban the use of forced arbitration agreements in long-term care facilities, which basically take away residents’ right to a day in court by explicitly prohibiting them from filing lawsuits. But back in June, after the measure was held up for months Read More