Sentences with phrase «leading consumer protection»

We bring decades of consumer finance experience to the expanding PACE market, providing cities and municipalities with a complete program that includes contractor verification, industry - leading consumer protection and robust reporting.

Our processes go above and beyond the CSCDA's requirements, and we have helped lead consumer protection efforts for the U.S. residential solar industry through our work with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

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Consumer advocates have been concerned that a deregulation - minded FCC could potentially allow more huge mergers, overturn new protections for internet users and lead to higher costs for media and technology companies that rely on the internet to reach consumers.

Leading the first camp are the advocacy organizations who decry the FCC's vote for repeal as an attack on consumer protections.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing new rules to curtail payday lending practices the agency says can lead borrowers into long - term «debt traps.»

Such a violation, if eventually confirmed by the Federal Trade Commission, could lead to many millions of dollars in fines against Facebook, said David Vladeck, who as the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection oversaw the investigation of alleged privacy violations by Facebook and the subsequent consent decree resolving the case in 2011.

On Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's «The Lead,» Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) responded to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Interim Director Mick Mulvaney's comments that there was a «hierarchy» in his Congressional office that he wouldn't talk to lobbyists who didn't give him money, but «might talk to» lobbyists who did by declaring the Trump administration the «Most corrupt administration ever.»

Rick is a former Chief of Staff for the federal New Democratic Party, and has led many successful campaigns for important new public policies at the federal and provincial levels related to environmental and consumer protection, urban planning, green jobs creation, democratic reform and progressive taxation.

The measure is the latest Republican - led effort to curb the influence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Cordray, most recently the director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was up 28 % -13 % after the previous poll showed a smaller 23 % -16 % Cordray lead, although a huge number of undecideds means the race could break in unexpected ways at the end.

Legislation is proposed to ban lead use in consumer goods, and the Environmental Protection Agency is taking a close look at stained glass windows.

«Andalou Naturals recognizes the importance of consumer protection and education, so we decided to lead by example and help set a new standard for personal care.»

The paths lead to either significant benefit to organic businesses in future, or to even lesser protection for both businesses and consumers than exists now.

Rated a «Best Buy» by a leading consumer magazine, the Embrace provides easy handling features for parents, and premium protection for normal and low birth - weight babies.

The event was a culmination of a joint initiative of the Senate President and DFID's ENABLE 2 and GEMS 3 programmes and had been preceded by a comprehensive research into laws inhibiting businesses in Nigeria leading to specific legislative proposals to improve the business environment in terms of competition and consumer protection, transportation and infrastructure, improving MSMEs access to finance, reform of land use and construction laws and administration, doing business reforms amongst others.

At a March 7 Senate hearing on the proposed regulatory merger, New York Bankers Association President Michael Smith testified that the funding of consumer protection initiatives through fraud penalties could lead to overly aggressive prosecution of banks.

She's led the effort to create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Assemblymember Kavanagh currently Chairs American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, the State Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and the Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection In endorsing Rivera, Kavanagh joins a growing list of local progressive elected officials at all levels of government who have announced their support for the leading Democratic candidate.

«It's absolutely a completely novel use of bar coding in the area of consumer protection,» says David Schindel, who leads the Consortium for the Barcode of Life in Washington, D.C..

«Almost all of the fruit salads we analyzed contained levels of the tracer organism, which we were representing as being salmonella,» said Randy Phebus, professor of food safety at Kansas State University and one of the authors of the study «Consumer Food Handling Practices Lead to Cross-Contamination,» recently published in the journal Food Protection Trends.

She leads an office of attorneys and transportation industry analysts who investigate and enforce DOT's aviation economic, consumer protection, and civil rights requirements primarily through negotiation and issuing cease and desist orders assessing civil penalties.

This work is intended to lead to a consumer information program to rate vehicles on side impact protection.

While there is no clear answer yet, opponents of Digital Rights Management have demonstrated that stripping away the «protection» on ebooks has actually led to an increase in book sales and a decrease in piracy, as consumers are often willing to pay for access to a book.

LendEDU covered a lawsuit earlier in 2017 that was filed against Navient when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleged that the student loan servicer cheated borrowers by establishing obstacles to repayment, leading to higher student loan balances and greater interest.

Using a novel loan - level administrative dataset from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and econometric techniques, we quantify the (a) effect of consumers receiving lower prices as a result of the law and (b) the demand - expansion effect of lower prices leading new consumers to enter the market.

«As we speculated, sales that were delayed in November because of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new loan disclosure rules closed in December instead, which led to the greatest monthly sales increase in nearly five years,» Ziggy Zicarelli, president of CAR, explained.

Sometimes the change is precipitated by the President's choice to lead an agency, as in the case of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

New, tough nationwide regulations on payday and other short - term loans, finalized by an Obama - era appointee who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will remain on the books at least temporarily.

Further, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) found that the median size of debit card transactions that led to an overdraft fee was $ 24, and the median fee assessed was $ 34; more than half of consumers repay the debt within three days.

One popular rule of thumb comes from Elizabeth Warren who knows a thing or two about balancing the household books; she's a bankruptcy expert and the Harvard Law School professor who led the creation of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Some consumer protection organizations report that the high cash advance loan costs can often lead to more debt and problems.

In 2014 the Chicago Companion Animal and Consumer Protection law was passed one vote short unanimously, led by efforts of the non-profit Puppy Mill Project and led legislatively by animal - loving Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza.

In 2014 the Chicago Companion Animal and Consumer Protection law was passed one vote short unanimously, led by efforts of the non-profit Puppy Mill Project and led legislatively by animal - loving...

Pet owners are demanding qualified veterinary nursing personnel, which leads to consumer protection and patient care

They have sued Petland, Inc., the notorious retail pet store, and its broker, the infamous Hunte Corporation which is the leading distributor of puppy mill dogs, along with unnamed suppliers for violations of Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. Â § 1962, («RICO») and state consumer protection statutes.

Generali Global Assistance's Travel Insurance division («the Company), formerly CSA Travel Protection, today announced that its long standing partner, InsureMyTrip, a leading travel insurance comparison site, has launched its three new consumer plans to InsureMyTrip's customers.

During 2017, Generali Global Assistance both rebranded from CSA Travel Protection and launched its new, consumer - facing website, both of which led to specific customer service needs.

A program of Center for Resource Solutions, Green ‑ e is North America's leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market.

A program of the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, Green - e is North America's leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market.

The organization's collusion with the Environmental Protection Agency to advance its radical agenda will likely lead to much higher energy prices and higher prices of many consumer goods.

Before becoming General Counsel in 2012, he served for thirteen years as Associate General Counsel, leading Amazon's Litigation and Regulatory group and advising on a wide variety of litigation, privacy, consumer protection, competition law, securities regulation, intellectual property, and labor and employment matters.

It should be questioned whether increasing confusion surrounding European data protection law may lead to businesses lacking certainty over exactly what national laws they should comply with and consumers being less well protected overall (That said, the difficulty presented by pan-European variations in data protection law may be less of an issue once the GDPR has introduced more conformity).

Lead counsel for non-traditional financial services company against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Isn't this this a violation of consumer protection laws, exploiting my son's vulnerability by using toys to lure him to eat nutritionally unbalanced meals that can lead to obesity?

In 2002, he became the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Metropolitan asserting that the unsolicited faxes violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

The cases summarized include medical malpractice, car accidents, insurance, consumer protection, attorney malpractice, lead paint poisoning, premises liability, and other personal injury cases.

Provided advice respecting questions dealing with human resources and the protection of privacy for various clients, including one of the largest automobile manufacturers; a Canadian leader in consumer products; a leading company in Analog and Digital Television, High - Speed Internet and Telephone services; one of the world's largest professional services firms traded on the TSX stock exchange; one of the world's largest professional services firms, as well as a multinational corporation working in the biopharmaceutical sector.

In parallel state litigation, led the resolution of multi-state and individual state consumer protection claims and lawsuits, as well as state claims alleged by Medicaid Fraud Control Units and similar attorneys general and state representatives.

Combining the disappointing in De Wolf v. Bell ExpressVu, provincial regulation on payday lending that has led to higher interest rates than those allowed by the usury provisions in the Criminal Code and the limitations of consumer class actions against late payment practices, it seems that consumers have even less protection from exploitative credit arrangements today.

In addition, Mr. Moreno has experience acting as lead associate managing the defense of class actions alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.