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Hormel Advertising Suit Reveals What ‘Natural’ Meat Really Means

Consumers want “natural” meat—and the biggest meat companies want to sell it to them. American shoppers are reaching for healthier, more environmentally and animal-friendly meat products, with 39 percent saying “all-natural” is the most important claim when purchasing red meat, …

U.S. Court Rules for Arbitration in Credit Card Case

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday for Synovus Financial Corp and CompuCredit Holdings Corp and said credit card claims by consumers under a 1996 law must be handled in arbitration, not in court. By an 8-1 vote, the justices …

RIM Hit With Consumer Lawsuits Over BlackBerry Outage

Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of …

Florida Consumer Advocate Focusing on Auto Insurance

Florida’s insurance consumer advocate is forming a working group to focus on skyrocketing premiums for automobile coverage. Robin Westcott on Thursday said one of the biggest reasons for those increases has been personal injury protection fraud. State law requires motorists …

US Probes Reports of Nissan, Chrysler, GM Defects

U.S. safety regulators have opened preliminary investigations into consumer complaints about vehicles made by Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Chrysler LLC and General Motors Co that could affect more than 700,000 cars. A preliminary investigation is the first step in a …