Online Reviews: A Consumer-Driven Marketing Tool

There was a time when the web was considered the Wild West, especially when it came to purchasing products and services. That’s not to say scams and ‘snake oil’ doesn’t still get peddled, but users seem to have grown wiser and various mechanisms are in place to help separate legitimate businesses from shady ones. One




Federal Communications Commission Seeks Feedback on Straight-To-Voicemail Tactics By Telemarketers, Debt Collectors

Consumer rights advocates and three attorneys general are asking the Federal Communications Commission to curb a new straight-to-voicemail messaging technique being used by debt collectors and telemarketers. The FCC is seeking feedback from the public after receiving a petition from a ‘ringless voicemail provider’ trying to avoid regulation under the confines of the Telephone Consumer


How You Can Stop Identity Theft

It’s your worst nightmare. After years of carefully managing your finances, some unscrupulous individual steals your identity and begins opening accounts, taking loans, and committing you to deal with the aftermath. All your hard work, gone in the time it took a thief to fill out some applications (most of which are now done online).


Dr. Julio Novoa: Essure Letter to Fellow Doctors

I was recently contacted by a fellow writer in reference to the letter you’re about to read. Due to my coverage of the Essure issue, he thought that our readers would like to see Dr. Novoa’s Essure letter to fellow doctors. It’s with my colleague’s permission that I share their post and Dr. Novoa’s letter.


Is ABC News Liable for Defamation Over ‘Pink Slime’ Report?

Have you heard of pink slime? Well it turns out that a “defamation trial over an ABC News report about so-called pink slime, a once-common ingredient in ground beef,” began on Monday after a South Dakota meat processing company claimed the news report “wreaked havoc on its business after it aired in 2012.” But what is pink slime?


Settlement Reached Between Beaufort Inn and Bride Who Was Attacked On Eve of Her Wedding

According to police, Gretchen Rhyan Mazur-Williamson was “badly beaten in a rented cottage at the Beaufort Inn in April 2009” after her assailant “entered her room through a broken rear window and waited for her to return.” As a result of the attack, the woman sued the inn back in 2012, accusing the owner, Associated Luxury Inns of Beaufort, of gross negligence for “failing to adopt and utilize adequate and proper security and emergency procedures for guests.” Now, years later, the Beaufort Inn has agreed to “an undisclosed settlement.”