April 10, 2019
Consumers want “natural” meat—and the biggest meat companies want to sell it to them. American shoppers are reaching for healthier, more environmentally and animal-friendly meat products, with 39 percent saying “all-natural” is the most important claim when purchasing red meat, …
January 12, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday for Synovus Financial Corp and CompuCredit Holdings Corp and said credit card claims by consumers under a 1996 law must be handled in arbitration, not in court. By an 8-1 vote, the justices …
October 27, 2011
Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of …
August 15, 2011
Florida’s insurance consumer advocate is forming a working group to focus on skyrocketing premiums for automobile coverage. Robin Westcott on Thursday said one of the biggest reasons for those increases has been personal injury protection fraud. State law requires motorists …
May 27, 2011
U.S. safety regulators have opened preliminary investigations into consumer complaints about vehicles made by Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Chrysler LLC and General Motors Co that could affect more than 700,000 cars. A preliminary investigation is the first step in a …