Posts tagged Rants and Raves

• Limiting the Right of Consumers to Sue

  Staff Writer | January 17, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The New York Times published an editorial on January 16, 2007 suggesting that pro-business tort reform initiatives are succeeding throughout the judicial system, the federal government and in state legislatures across the country. The editorial suggests that public relations campaigns are painting the picture that almost all litigation against business is frivolous and that consumers do not...

• Taser International to Introduce Consumer Stun Gun

  Staff Writer | January 06, 2007 9:28 AM | 2 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I just read today in the Arizona Republic that Scottsdale based Taser International plans on introducing a new consumer stun gun at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. With its perfect record thus far on product liability litigation lawsuits against it relating to its law enforcement stun gun product, I am not surprised to see this company branching out into the consumer...

• Happy New Year!

  Staff Writer | January 02, 2007 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As we have just entered 2007, I wanted to extend a sincere greetings to one and all for a happy and healthy new year! In this new year, I resolve to continue to discuss tort reform and its implications on consumers' ability to recover for real wrong-doing, force accountability, and make products and services safer. I hope to present the facts in a fairly objective way. Last year was not a...

• Consumer Problems with ChoicePoint, Inc.

  Staff Writer | December 08, 2006 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Have you ever heard of the company ChoicePoint, Inc.? If you have ever done business with an insurance carrier, chances are that ChoicePoint has collected personal and private information about you including your name, address, date of birth and social security number. According to the ChoicePoint, Inc. web site, Since 1997 ChoicePoint has been a leading provider of decision-making...

• Shopping Safely On Line

  Staff Writer | November 22, 2006 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I hope everybody has a happy and healthy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Usually the Friday after Thanksgiving has become the busiest shopping day of the year throughout the country. During this upcoming holiday shopping season, increasingly more and more consumers are shopping on the internet. This year, we have already seen a startling increase in identity thefts and compromised sensitive data and I...

• OJ Simpson Back in the Public Eye

  Staff Writer | November 16, 2006 10:32 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  OJ Simpson made history as an athlete. He made history as a criminal defendant who was acquitted of a heinous and violent crime. He again made history when he lost a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by the families of the victims of the crime for which he was acquitted. This week, he has once again made history. Only this time, it appears that OJ Simpson has apparently confessed to...

• Proposition 102 and the November General Election

  Staff Writer | October 25, 2006 6:09 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With the election coming up in just a few weeks, I wanted to share my opinion about Proposition 102. This proposition has not generated a great deal of attention in light of all of the infighting between candidates. I see fingerpointing television attack advertising several times a day from Jon Kyl directed at Jim Pederson. I see attack advertising from JD Hayworth directed at Harry Mitchell....

• Department of Energy Computer System Security Problems Exposed

  Staff Writer | October 06, 2006 3:14 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Well I found yet another agency with computer security problems amid the ever-growing list of government agencies which have not yet prioritized computer security. This time, according to an article in Computerworld Security Magazione,The information systems used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, are vulnerable to cyberattacks...

• Health Insurance Crisis

  Staff Writer | September 19, 2006 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A recent article in the LA Times discussed a different type of health insurance crisis affecting small business owners and people with individual health insurance policies. The crisis is very real and not a feigned one resting on catchy slogans. In fact, the crisis relates to health insurance companies arbitrarily terminating coverage for sick people in times of need. According to insurance...

• Increase in e-mail spam projected

  Staff Writer | September 14, 2006 6:08 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Have you notice an increase in junk e-mail messages? Do you notice regular messages promising cheap viagra or work-from-home job opportunities which can make you millions? Well unfortunately, brace for more junk messages in the future. According to a research released by an internet security software maker, corporate e-mail directory theft has increased by thirty-percent. The article I...