Sentences with phrase «individual consumers and small businesses»

A green paper, issued in November 2008 (Green Paper on Collective Consumer Redress) stated that individual consumers and small businesses were often deterred from bringing actions for damages because of the costs, delays, uncertainties, risks, and burdens involved.

It should also be emphasised that the scope of the study was intentionally limited to the experiences of individual consumers and small businesses, and that criminal legal services were excluded.

-LSB-...] which connects individual consumers and small businesses with lawyers, received a new round of funding earlier this year, and linked up with Lexis Nexis in -LSB-...]

The other path, taken by companies that develop and market their services for individual consumers and small businesses, is significantly riskier.

Overall, we have found that the legal services sector is not working well for individual consumers and small businesses.

Tresorit's blog provides digital security advice geared toward both individual consumers and small businesses.

In December, the UK Competition & Markets Authority released its Legal services market study focused on individual consumer and small business experience of purchasing legal services in England and Wales.

Not exact matches

They hurt our trading partners, individual consumers and trickle down to higher prices for most small businesses reliant on any tariffed products.

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company for Flagstar Bank, FSB, which offers consumer and commercial financial products and services to individuals, and small and middle market businesses in Michigan, Indiana, and Georgia.

The unmet legal needs of individuals and small businesses are what have spurred this consumer law revolution.

We have helped hundreds of individuals and small businesses fight back against companies unfairly and fraudulently taking advantage of consumers.

I argued that some twenty plus years on from the dawn of the national firm model in the business law context, there was a growing opportunity — at least to my mind — for the emergence of a similarly scaled venture focused on consumer - oriented legal services: family law, personal injury, simple wills, basic contracts and other legal services required by individuals and small businesses.

The company's Independent Marketing Group provides life insurance, pension products, and annuity products to both small business owners, as well as to individual consumers.

The Bureau received over 2,800 comments on the TILA - RESPA proposal during the comment period from, among others, consumer advocacy groups; national, State, and regional industry trade associations; banks; community banks; credit unions; financial companies; mortgage brokers; title insurance underwriters; title insurance agents and companies; settlement agents; escrow agents; law firms; document software companies; loan origination software companies; appraisal management companies; appraisers; State housing finance authorities, counseling associations, and intermediaries; State attorneys general; associations of State financial services regulators; State bar associations; government sponsored enterprises (GSEs); a member of the U.S. Congress; the Committee on Small Business of the U.S. House of Representatives; Federal agencies, including the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and acconsumer advocacy groups; national, State, and regional industry trade associations; banks; community banks; credit unions; financial companies; mortgage brokers; title insurance underwriters; title insurance agents and companies; settlement agents; escrow agents; law firms; document software companies; loan origination software companies; appraisal management companies; appraisers; State housing finance authorities, counseling associations, and intermediaries; State attorneys general; associations of State financial services regulators; State bar associations; government sponsored enterprises (GSEs); a member of the U.S. Congress; the Committee on Small Business of the U.S. House of Representatives; Federal agencies, including the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and acConsumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and academics.