Miscellaneous

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Two Years Later, Katrina Victims Wait for Insurance

  Gary Shipman | September 06, 2007 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  A report released last week by the American Association of Justice shows that two years after Hurricane Katrina, insurance companies continue to engage in unfair conduct deliberately designed to avoid and delay the payment of legitimate claims. The comprehensive report shows that the insurance companies who have denied hurricane related casualty claims have, during the preceding two years,...

• Novartis Discrimination Lawsuit Now a Class Action

  Gary Shipman | August 02, 2007 4:07 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  A gender discrimination action in which female employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals alleged that there were discriminated against because they were pregnant or had recently given birth has been certified as a class action by a United States District Court Judge in New York.The case, believed to be the second largest gender discrimination case certified as a class action, involves an estimated...

• Is Cancer Insurance Worth The Money?

  Jean Martin | May 13, 2008 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 1.5 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year. Let's face it, cancer is a fact of life these days. And as medical expenses continue to...

• 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...

• Beware Unifund CCR Partners

  Gary Shipman | July 11, 2007 6:38 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Having you been harassed, threatened or sued by Unifund CCR for a credit card debt that is more than 3 years old? Unifund is a "buyer of distressed debt" from lenders and credit card companies. Not only are those debts, in many instances, "distressed", but legally uncollectible.There is state and federal legislation that prohibits anyone from engaging in "unfair" debt collection practices. ...