New Orleans I find no joy in reading about forced-placed insurance, but I take great satisfaction in seeing the farce and fraud of such anti-consumer insurance coming to light. Quoting Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of Financial Services from Gretchen Morgenson’s “Fair Game” column in the Times, Force-placed insurance appears to be the dirty little secret of the …
Category: Personal Writings
Consumer Relief at Continental Airlines and Confusion at Amazon
New Orleans Ralph Nadar may not know anything about politics, but he still knows a thing or two about effective tactics for consumers, specifically threatening and moving to small claims court to resolve obstinate problems. Recently I wrote desperately about problems Local 100 was having in getting a refund on a plane ticket for an …
A Rating System for Public Scandals?
New Orleans Reading this “opinion” piece in the Pilot, which must be a small but feisty newspaper in the descriptively named town of Southern Pines, population a shade over 10,000 folks in North Carolina pushing towards the South Carolina border, I couldn’t resist passing this pearl on. I’ll be darned if I don’t really believe …