In Chicago, taxi and livery services companies are suing Uber for consumer fraud and other allegations.
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No, instead it sued the drug's maker, Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people )--for consumer fraud.
Every year of this century, the FTC has fielded more complaints of identity theft than of any other type of consumer fraud.
Consumer fraud laws differ from state to state, so if Wisner wins the case, he said he'll likely sue in other states.
They do so in ways that expose their employers on Wall Street to such liabilities as racketeering, anti-trust violations and securities and consumer fraud.
On the other hand, as FINRA often admonishes, the truly egregious violations often involve consumer fraud and can impose crippling liability upon the unknowing employer firm.
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On the other hand, as FINRA often admonishes, the truly egregious OBA violations often involve consumer fraud and can impose crippling liability upon the unknowing employer firm.
Accenture conducted an online consumer fraud survey in mid-2012.
No, instead it sued the drug's maker, Merck--for consumer fraud.
If an Illinois business had engaged in similar conduct, it would have been subject to suit under both the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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Rather than an egregious consumer fraud, most of these OBA violations are little more than a financially beleaguered broker trying to earn a few extra bucks to pay off mounting bills.
Working collaboratively across state lines and international borders to fight human and drug trafficking, money laundering and consumer fraud is a far better use of law enforcement resources than arresting landscapers and nannies.
Rather than an egregious consumer fraud, many of these EIA and OBA violations are little more than a financially beleaguered broker trying to earn a few extra bucks to pay off mounting bills.
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The suit accuses Pfizer of consumer fraud and other offenses, including quietly paying prominent doctors to tout Zoloft to colleagues or to be listed as authors of positive medical journal articles the company prepared for publication.
Around 10m Americans are victims annually, and it is the leading consumer-fraud complaint over the past five years.
In a twist on conventional consumer-fraud suits, Myers also wants publisher Random House to pay consumers for the time they spent reading the book.
Beside funding antismoking campaigns, the loot from the tobacco companies has helped turn this once sleepy professional association into a kind of super regulatory body, hunting for antitrust and consumer-fraud violations.
Even people running fine businesses could have been killed by frozen credit markets, weak consumer spending or fraud.
The CFTC also provides consumer education and fraud alerts to the public.
There will, however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from folly or fraud will be harder.
In around two-thirds of cases, Microsoft relies on old consumer-protection and fraud laws rather than new legislation specifically designed to counter spam (though the firm supports spam laws, as they tend to eliminate legal loopholes).
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She has spent much of her time on making the department run more efficiently as well as on consumer privacy and anti-fraud campaigns.
Providing the CVV number when making an online purchase or donation proves that you actually have the physical credit or debit card, helping to protect the consumer and reduce credit card fraud.
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But as more and more private consumer information is kept online, criminals are increasingly turning to the more serious fraud of identity theft, using consumer data to assume another person's identity and take out new credit cards or loans.
The Coalition Against Fraud--a trade group comprised of major insurers, consumer groups and government agencies--has also seen more fraud cases spring up in the past year, after a drop-off for several years.
In the Exeter case, Kwiatkowski has been charged with obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product, namely a hospital syringe, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
This week she announced that her bureau is aggregating Internet auction fraud complaints from state officials, consumer groups and online auctions such as eBay (EBAY) into a massive database for exclusive use by law enforcement.
Further important weapons in the arsenal for fraud now available in most states are the consumer protection statutes.
Today, fraud claims alleging a failure to disclose might be based upon violations of federal securities laws, state blue sky laws, state consumer protection laws, and other federal and state anti-fraud statutes.
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