Article: Contractors fall subject to Consumer Fraud Act.(INSIDE CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN)

Article: Greeley a consumer fraud hot spot.(Business)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... ranked as the country's top spot for consumer fraud complaints last year, according to ... Residents in the Greeley area filed 1,023 consumer fraud complaints in 2006, a per-capita ... seen the report. The annual report on consumer fraud and identity theft complaints is compiled ...

Article: CONSUMER FRAUD FINES SPELL RELIEF FOR COUNTY ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  April 27, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... tapped into a steady source of income - consumer fraud fines once paid to the state. Because ... Office has decided to keep certain consumer fraud fines in the county to help the 16 ... District Attorney Mitch Disney, the consumer fraud prosecutor. Administered by the Ventura ...

Article: WHEN CONSUMER FRAUD CROSSES THE INTERNATIONAL LINE: ...
Northwestern University Law Review;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF FTC CONSUMER FRAUD ENFORCEMENT ... ... ... ... . 297 A. Origins of the Consumer Fraud Provisions of the FTC Act ... potential victims for perpetrators of consumer fraud has likewise expanded.2 Indeed ...

Article: Older people and consumer fraud.
M2 Presswire;  April 8, 2002 ;     467 words ... ... PRESSWIRE-8 April 2002-AIC: Older people and consumer fraud (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE ... likely than younger people to be victims of consumer fraud, consumer fraud is one of the most common crimes perpetuated ...

Article: Federal Courts Dismiss Class Actions And Hold That A Discrepancy ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  February 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... stayed at a hotel overseas might bring a consumer fraud claim in the U.S. accusing the chain ... overseas hotel is not the victim of a consumer fraud under state law. This Stroock Hospitality ... assesses their implications for future consumer fraud class actions based on the contents ...

Article: Utah drops No. 1 ranking -- as consumer-fraud ...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Utah is no longer the consumer-fraud capital of the nation: The state ... 1 for the largest amount of consumer fraud per capita in 2006 to No. 11 ... reported 20 percent more cases of consumer fraud in 2007 than the year before ...

Article: Judge Finds State Farm Committed Consumer Fraud in ...
Business Wire;  October 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... found that State Farm had committed consumer fraud through its practice of uniformly specifying ... group of policyholders affected by the consumer fraud had suffered $130 million in damages ... to and during the class period for Consumer Fraud Act plaintiffs, knew that the non ...