and are sold as described. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 protects your statutory rights when you purchase a product or service from a retailer. If these rights are breached and you feel you have been poorly mistreated then you may have a claim against the seller or supplier for compensation. ...
Our consumer protection attorneys have extensive experience in handling cases related to consumer rights in various industries. We handle financial harm caused by dangerous and defective products, healthcare and insurance fraud against consumers, breaches in security and investment fraud, anti-competitive c...
Its work supports a consumer’s rights to open, accurate, transparent seller claims regarding goods and prices; to protection against fraudulent description of goods on sale; to return goods and get recompense; to ask sellers to repair or replace unsatisfactory goods purchased; and to cancel a ...
And this agreement could imply that consumers extend ownership rights to the retailers. Yet, data is often collected outside of a direct interaction with the firm, such as location data outside of using an app or from voice-activated devices (e.g. Alexa) in consumers’ homes, which may ...
In two member states, intermediaries cannot act on behalf of another intermediary (PL) or on behalf of more than one intermediary (HU). The demand side of the insurance market was represented by 12 entities (mostly entities representing consumer rights, e.g., the Romanian Asociatia Consumers ...
You own it. Can you fix it? Not yet. But depending on where you live, electronics repair businesses and hobbyists stand to gain new rights. In many parts of the world, it’s illegal or intentionally difficult to fix your own electronics. That is about to change in some… ...
(HOPE) Act and Rep. Brian Mast’s (R-FL) Gun Rights and Marijuana (GRAM) Act to the final legislation. Sen. Schumer also shared that such provisions would address the war on drugs, bolster social equity and criminal justice reform and protect Second Amendment rights for medical cannabis ...
the survey found. Other research has shown that department stores routinely make women pay for alterations to business suits. Men’s suits, by contrast, often are altered free (Warren1995). California’s law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, requires certain businesses, such as hair salons, tailors...
One of the most important consumer protections in finance is the Securities Act of 1933 which was enacted during the Great Depression. The act strictly limits the sale of investment contracts referred to as "securities" and requires issuers to disclose the details of their financing and business p...
The Airline Deregulation Act became law in 1978.12 Its effect was to increase competition, with fare prices decreasing in the 20 years following its introduction.13 Meanwhile, the number of passengers increased from 207.5 million in 1974 to over one billion by 2023.1415 There were significant ...