Miscellaneous

• Back to School? Minority Student Loan Borrowers Be Wary

  Jean Martin | August 03, 2009 3:12 PM | 4 CommentsWilmington, NC

  As college-bound minorities take a step toward self-improvement, lenders could be sending them two steps back. Lenders rely on complex, and at times secret, methods of determining what rate to...

• Propane Tank Ripoff - Consumers Get Less While Suppliers Get More

  Gary Shipman | June 08, 2009 11:49 AM | 3 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Well, it seems that something stinks on the grill, and it's not what you're cooking. When oil prices jumped in 2008, propane suppliers reduced by 2 pounds the amount of propane gass pumped into...

• Consumer Product Safety Commission Will Finally Regulate Off-Road Recreational Vehicles

  Jean Martin | October 26, 2009 5:08 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  Off-road recreational vehicles, also known as ROVs, have been under fire in the last several years for the number of deaths that have been associated them. ROVs have been involved in accidents...

• Some UBS Auction Rate Securities Holders Still Owed Money

  Jean Martin | August 24, 2009 8:52 AM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  Playing poker involves a certain amount of strategy. Sure, you want to hold a royal flush, but if you can trick the other players into thinking that’s what you have, two pair can do you...

• Foreclosure - It's Not The End of the World; It May Be The Beginning

  Gary Shipman | April 29, 2008 10:14 AM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  You saw the ads. "No income verification; low interest rates; pay off your credit cards." You, as hundreds of thousands of other consumers across the United States, jumped at the opportunities that...

• Double Dipping and the Erosion of the Duty of Loyalty: The common practice of dual agency by Real Estate Brokers

  Matt Buckmiller | June 19, 2007 3:12 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  In the hopes of obtaining more listings, greater commissions, and overall greater profits, real estate brokerage firms in North Carolina commonly engage in the practice of dual agency whereby they act as both the seller's agent and the buyer's agent in the sale of a particular piece of real estate. In one form of dual agency, one broker from a real estate firm will act as both buyer's and...

• Unum and Bad Faith Practices

  Greg Jones | January 10, 2011 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Unum Group, insurance company, formerly known as Unum Provident, is one of the largest disability insurance providers in the world. Over the past two decades it has cheated Americans out of...

• Wells Fargo To Buy Back Auction Rate Securities in Settlement

  Jean Martin | November 19, 2009 9:27 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Wells Fargo has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $1.4 billion with regard to the company's auction rate securities. Wells Fargo faced this lawsuit and an investigation by the California Attorney...

• Toyota Locked in Intellectual Property Litigation Over Prius

  Gary Shipman | November 12, 2009 2:42 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The International Trade Commission is the setting for a classic David vs. Goliath contest between Bonita Springs, Florida based Paice, LLC and Toyota over a patent related to a key component of...

• Judges Questioned when Two Young Men were Sentenced to Life in Jail with out Parole

  James Moore | November 11, 2009 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the cases of two young men who have been sentenced to life in jail with out parole. This was agreed on to see if there sentence hinders their rights to the 8th...