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Consumer Protection: Attorney General
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Consumer Protection issues are dealt with when complaints are made to the Director-General of Fair Trade. The Office of Fair Trading[3] will then investigate, impose an injunction or take the matter to litigation.
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Following an investigation by Montgomery County’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP), a case was sent to the State’s Attorney for criminal prosecution involving a travel agent who, after receiving more than $50,000 from consumers, failed to provide travel arrangements. The agent pled guilty and is currently serving a jail sentence.
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Marc B. Kramer, attorney for the Class, said "We are obviously gratified that the Court certified a nationwide class in this important consumer protection case." While the amount of damages must await further discovery, Kramer explained that "over the past twelve years, Trex and ExxonMobil have sold allegedly defective products nationwide to hundreds of thousands of consumers. Those people did not get what they paid for."
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The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (http://www.nacba.org) is the only national organization dedicated to serving the needs of consumer bankruptcy attorneys and protecting the rights of consumer debtors in bankruptcy. Formed in 1992, NACBA now has more than 2500 members located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
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In many states, the broad principles of common law fraud have been enacted into specific consumer protection statutes, with state public agencies to enforce these statutes. Your state Attorney General often enforces consumer law, sometimes through a special agency called a "consumer affairs department."
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Since 1997, 30 states have enacted consumer protections on the factoring of structured settlement payments. Support has ... come from a broad cross- section within the legal and insurance communities, including such prominent plaintiff attorneys as Joseph Jamail, Philip Corboy, William Garmer, and Robert Clifford, as well as the American Insurance Association, the American College of Life Insurers, and the Alliance of American Insurers.
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