May 9, 2024 | “free” phone offers | “unlimited” data advertisements | Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) | AT&T | material conditions | material limitations | misleading and confusing advertising and sales tactics | monetary incentives to “switch” wireless networks | multistate | Settlement | T-Mobile | Verizon Wireless | Wireless Carriers | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs, together with 50 other attorneys general, announced a $10.25 million agreement with the nation’s largest cell phone companies to resolve an investigation into their allegedly misleading and confusing advertising and sales tactics.
Apr 25, 2024 | Chatsworth Deli | DEP | Environmental Enforcement Actions | Environmental Justice Communities | Environmental Lawsuits | FM Equities | Gas Mart | Hidden Mills Associates | Judgment | Little Mason | McWane Ductile | Shell Portfolio/Pontus Capital | Wilenta Feed | Division of Law | Environmental Justice | Press Release | Securing Environmental Justice
Court Enters Judgement in DEP’s Favor in One Case, Another Case Settles For Immediate Release: April 25, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney GeneralDivision of Law- Michael T.G. Long, Director For Further Information: Media...
Apr 18, 2024 | diagnostic testing | emergency room | gross incompetence | gross malpractice | gross negligence | License revocation | North Jersey Emergency Room Doctor | Overlook Medical Center | Patient Death | State Board of Medical Examiners | Summit | Wayne NJ | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners has permanently revoked the medical license of a North Jersey emergency room doctor for alleged conduct that resulted in a patient’s death at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey, in 2017.
Mar 21, 2024 | APIs | Apple Lawsuit | Application Developers | apps | Arizona | California | Connecticut | Department of Justice | Iphones | Maine | messaging | Michigan | Minnesota | New Hampshire | New York | North Dakota | Oklahoma | Oregon | smartphones | Tennessee | the District of Columbia | Vermont | Wisconsin | Division of Law | Press Release
Today, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin joined the Justice Department and 15 other states to file an antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging Apple is monopolizing the market for smartphones, stifling innovation and the development of apps and related technology in violation of the Sherman Act and New Jersey law.
Mar 12, 2024 | Addiction Treatment | Cedar Grove | Clinical Practice of Medicine | controlled dangerous substances | Division of Consumer Affairs | Indiscriminately Prescribed CDS | Preliminary Evaluation Committee (“PEC”) | substance use disorders | Battling the Opioid Epidemic | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Fighting the Opioid Crisis | NJ CARES | Press Release
For Immediate Release: March 12, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney GeneralDivision of Consumer Affairs- Cari Fais, Acting DirectorDivision of Law- Michael T.G. Long, Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Lisa...
Feb 21, 2024 | Bumble | Civil Penalty | Criminal Background Screening | Internet Dating Safety Act (“IDSA”) | Internet Dating Services | New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (“CFA”) | Public Disclosures | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“Division”) announced today that Texas-based internet dating service provider Bumble, Inc. will pay $315,000 and change its business practices to settle allegations it violated New Jersey’s consumer protection and internet dating safety laws by misrepresenting or failing to disclose its criminal background screening policies and practices to its New Jersey users.
