the safeguarding of consumer interests in terms of quality, price, and safety, usually within a statutory framework. The growing purchasing power of consumers and the...
A-Dustour newspaper reported on the Congress of the Arab Federation of Consumer Protection Unions held in Amman, Jordan, in early November 2001. The Congress was organized by the Jordanian National Union for Consumer Protection. Participating in this A-Dustour newspaper reported on the Congress of the Arab...
CONGRESS MAY BE PREOCCUPIED with Election Day politics, but those on Capitol Hill considering federal regulation of insurance were not too busy campaigning to notice New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's explosive charges of insurance brokerage p CONGRESS MAY BE PREOCCUPIED with Election Day politics, but...
A $3 BILLION CABLE SHAM? The `Consumer Protection Act of 1990' (EDITOR'S NOTE -- Printed here are the contents of a booklet written and distributed by William B. Finneran, chairman of the New York State Commission on Cable Television, to...
As the behemoths of banking and insurance battle it out in Congress to determine the future of financial services reform, the argument should focus on the best interests of consumers. With that in mind, Congress should pay careful attention to th As...
The over-arching focus of the health care industry, including insurers, is in preparing to deal with health plan standards -- both by the administration and by Congress. The over-arching focus of the health care industry, including insurers, is in preparing to deal with...
The meltdown in the real estate and financial markets is accomplishing what the passage of time has failed to do: giving bankruptcy lawyers more work than they can handle. Bankruptcies had been down since this time three years ago, when Congress passed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Two Santa Clara Law Professors will address students and faculty to help explain the origins and consumer impacts of the $700 billion economic bailout under discussion in Congress right now. Media are invited to attend. Who: Corporate-Finance Law Professor Steve Diamond and Consumer Law...
As a follow-up to its white paper submitted toCongress this week, " Proposed $700 Billion BailoutIs Too Little, Too Late to End the Debt Crisis; Too Much, Too Soon for theU.S. Bond Market ," Weiss Research recommends that Congress focus lesson bailing out imprudent institutions and more on fortifying the...
The public clamor for food safety has resulted in a deluge of proposed regulatory initiatives, the impact of which is rarely seen in food industry history. Spurred on by several recent high profile incidents, members of congress, industry watchdogs, manufacturing associations, and consumers are all pressing for expanded product testing...
After sending a letter (signed by 23 other senators) to Environmental Protection Agency EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson in April asking for a status report on the pending rule-making process for the waiver of all or portions of the ethanol mandate passed by Congress in 2007, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison...
U.S. Trustee Program Administers BAPCPA's Patient Care Ombudsman Requirements In an effort to ensure the safety and welfare of one of the most vulnerable groups of persons affected by the bankruptcy process, Congress added §333 to the Bankruptcy Code through the enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention...
WASHINGTON -- Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chairwoman Nancy Nord will be the keynote speaker when the nation's major retail companies gather in Washington this week for the National Retail Federation's 73rd annual Washington Leadership Conference. Nord is scheduled to speak at 12:45 p.m., Tuesday, May 13, in...
Sixteen years after Congress enacted the Anti Car Theft Act of 1992, which called for the creation of a national database to track motor vehicle titles and prevent the fraudulent retitling of wrecked and stolen cars, Public Citizen and two California consumer organizations are suing the...
Federal legislation that would keep airline passengers from being held 'hostage' on commercial jetliners remains stalled in the U.S. Congress while state passenger bills of rights are being rejected on legal grounds. The House Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing on April 9 to hear ...
The recent focus on global warming seems to have sparked a renewed interest in the environment, and, in the process, has brought a great deal of attention to the IT industry. Instead of saving trees by producing the long-sought-after paperless office, the production, use and disposal of technology is damaging...
TEMPE, Ariz. -- LifeLock[R], the first U.S. identity theft protection company and the recognized industry leader in the prevention of identity theft, has initiated the first ever "Strike Back - Defeat Identity Theft Now," a grassroots campaign to bring attention to the serious issues that affect consumers as a result...
The U.S. Trustee Program Enforces BAPCPA's Limitations on Executive Compensation Congress, through the enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 BAPCPA, amended the Bankruptcy Code to add 11 U.S.C. §503c in order to restrict the allowance and payment of administrative expenses to...
Their spiral design is a symbol of "going green," the movement to make homes and living more energy-efficient. And sales of compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs, are booming: They made up 20% of the U.S. light bulb market in 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency says, up from 11% a year...
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