Hall Of Shame

A Prescription for Disaster: One in 12 Doctors Received Money to Push Opioids

By WBE | 10.3.2017 | Hall Of Shame, In The News, You Should Know
  When a doctor recommends a medication, you most likely have the expectation that this advice comes from a place of knowledge and experience. We trust medical professionals to analyze ...
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Chamber of Commerce’s Big Ties to Big Tobacco Under Fire

By WBE | 7.8.2015 | Hall Of Shame, Villain Of The Week, You Should Know
You can’t please all of the people all of the time, and if you’re the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that’s certainly true right now. The CVS Health Corporation, the largest pharmacy health care ...
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Hall of Shame: Experian

By WBE | 6.20.2014 | For Businesses, For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, In The News, Villain Of The Week, You Should Know
As someone who has experienced a (relatively minor) case of identity theft, I can personally attest to how frustrating and time consuming it can be to correct blatant misinformation with the ...
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Hall of Shame: Online Tribal Payday Lenders

By WBE | 5.1.2014 | Hall Of Shame
Payday lenders have never enjoyed a favorable public opinion. These companies are generally seen as manipulative at best and predatory at worst by taking advantage of persons in need of quick ...
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JP Morgan Chase Expected to Pay Record Settlement

By WBE | 10.24.2013 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, In The News, Villain Of The Week, You Should Know
The story of banking giant JP Morgan Chase’s $13 billion settlement has been in heavy rotation on network and cable news outlets this week, as it should be. This settlement is the largest ever ...
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Hall of Shame: Johnson & Johnson’s License Suspended

By WBE | 5.21.2013 | Hall Of Shame, Villain Of The Week
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is currently under fire as the subject of thousands of lawsuits involving defective products, including both their metal-on-metal hip implant systems ...
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Hall of Shame: Chinese Chicken Jerky Dog Treats and the FDA

By WBE | 1.31.2013 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, In The News, Villain Of The Week, You Should Know
For years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has been investigating a possible contamination in chicken jerky dog treats. The investigation began in 2007 (on the heels of the massive ...
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Hall of Shame: New PayPal User Agreement

By WBE | 11.1.2012 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, Villain Of The Week, You Should Know
Changes have come to PayPal’s user agreement, and of course, the changes are not for the benefit PayPal customers. The company recently added a section to its user agreement which takes away a ...
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Criminalizing Whistleblowers: Big Ag Wins at Consumers’ Expense

By WBE | 4.13.2012 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, You Should Know
On March 2, 2012, Iowa’s Governor Branstad signed House File 589 into law, creating a new crime of “agricultural production facility fraud.”  Utah passed a similar “agricultural operations ...
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Unhappily Musing on the “News”

By WBE | 1.19.2012 | Columns, Hall Of Shame, In The News, Ken Wexler
It always amazes me how editors of newspapers can mold public opinion merely by the wording of headline and the placement of a story. The New York Times today gave me another reminder of this ...
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Aqua Dots Revisited

By WBE | 11.2.2011 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, In The News, Public Victories, You Should Know
A few months ago, I wrote a short blog post to discuss my disagreement with a Northern District of Illinois decision that denied class certification in a case involving the sale of defective toy ...
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Your Seventh Amendment Rights Are Under Attack: What Are You Going to do About it?

By WBE | 10.12.2011 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, In The News, You Should Know
The Seventh Amendment provides that, in suits at common law, “the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.”  And yet, we live in a world where we are bound – whether we know we are or not -- ...
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