Consumer Law

Credit Card Rate Hikes: Four Customers Tell Companies to Take a Hike
Seattle, WA: What follows are four anecdotes of credit card abuse. Daily, people's lives are being destroyed by unfair rate hikes, by unscrupulous credit card companies. Countless consumers are so deep in debt that any day now, they face foreclosure on their homes...

Flip-Flopping Premium Hikes Rejected in Florida.
Hartford reportedly at first "voted" against Premium Rate Hikes by announcing it would reduce Premiums by 13.6% effective 06.01.08, then it "voted" for Premium Rate Hikes by asking for a 39...

ABC News: Obama's Proposed Tax Hikes Would Hit Blue States Hard
ABC News: How Politically Risky Are Obama's Proposed Tax Hikes?, by Jake Tapper: Anne Mathias, an economist of the Stanford Group Company, has an interesting analysis of just who the top wage earners in the U...

Citibank considers imitating Gilda Radner
Last year, Citi promised its credit card customers that ?A Deal is a Deal? - that they would be getting rid of ?any time for any reason? interest rate hikes. But now that they?re facing financial problems, Citi is reconsidering this pledge....

Wealthy New Yorkers Face 58% Marginal Tax Rate Under Obama
I previously blogged that Obama's Proposed Tax Hikes Would Hit Blue States Hard. The New York Sun runs the numbers for New York in Tax Rates For New Yorkers Would Top 50% Under Obama, by Julie Satow: New York tax...

Is the IRS Pre-Disposed to Rejecting Your Offer In Compromise
By it's own reporting the Internal Revenue Service acceptance rate of Offers In Compromise has declined by a whopping 70% since 2001! (...)

Power of Attorney and Living Wills for the aged
Options for caring for aging parents

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

Grandparents Visitation Rights
Every state lets elderly grandparents petition to visit grandchildren

Living Wills and Powers of Attorney
Laws effecting the elderly

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Faces Lawsuit Over Hikes in Credit Card Interest Rate

$7.5 Million Settlement Proposed in Gillette M3P Power Razor Class Action
$7.5 Million Settlement Proposed in Gillette M3P Power Razor Class Action

Auction Rate Securities
ARS stocks purchased from a brokerage

Nail Guns
Injury Rate More Than Doubles in Three Years

Settlement Proposed in Class Action Against Facebook
Facebook will Close Beacon in Proposed Settlement

Hospira AC Power Cord Recall
Hospira AC Power Cord Recall