Headline News Archive

2012

October

25

• Government crusade against mortgage lenders. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday accused Bank of America of selling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac thousands of shoddy mortgages that caused more than $1 billion in

24

• CFPB issues rules for debt collectors. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday unveiled new rules for supervising large debt-collection firms, marking the first time that industry will be subject to

• Can’t fix error in your credit report? Call CFPB. If there’s something’s strange in your credit report, who you gonna call? Not Ghostbusters. If you haven’t been successful in getting a

23

• Target, Rite Aid, Walgreens refill drugs without OK. Ivor Davis received a call recently from the Target pharmacy near his home in Ventura. He was informed he could pick up a refill of

16

• Three systems to keep teen drivers safe. Automakers are starting to use technology to make sure parents can keep their young drivers safe behind the wheel. It's easy to see why parents

11

• Wells Fargo accused in U.S. mortgage fraud lawsuit. Federal officials unleashed a series of legal assaults on the financial industry, targeting actions they said helped trigger the housing market collapse and then attempted

09

• CVS customers say prescription refills weren't OKd. George Engelke manages his CVS prescriptions online. If he needs more of a medicine, he orders it. If he's going to be away from his

02

• Many states not prepared for health-care law. More than three dozen states could be unprepared or unwilling to set up the insurance marketplaces called for under the 2010 health-care law, leaving at least

September

30

• Hospitals to be fined for readmitted patients. If you or an elderly relative have been hospitalized recently and noticed extra attention when the time came to be discharged, there's more to it

28

• iPhone 5 insurance: Should you get it?. So, you just got an iPhone 5, or you're thinking about getting an iPhone 5, and you're wondering whether you should insure it. Replacing a broken iPhone

• Rental car companies agree not to use recalled vehicles. The four largest U.S. rental car companies have agreed to park vehicles facing a recall until the defect has been repaired, and lent their

25

• Health insurance costs speed up. U.S. spending on health insurance grew at an accelerated rate in 2011, breaking a two-year trend of smaller cost increases. The culprit, a new study

22

• Medicare bills rise as records turn electronic. When the federal government began providing billions of dollars in incentives to push hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records, the goal

• Is acupuncture essential health care? Weight-loss surgery? Under Obamacare, states choose.. It is among the health-care law’s most important — and most daunting — questions: What health-care benefits are absolutely essential? California legislators say acupuncture makes the

20

• Two million more to pay penalty under Obamacare. Congress' official scorekeeper said Wednesday that roughly two million more Americans will pay penalties under President Obama's health care law for lacking insurance than had

16

• Sluggish economy forces Americans to cut corners to pay for medications. Two new Consumer Reports surveys suggest that difficulty paying for health care—including prescription drugs and other medical bills—remains the top financial problem for

06

• Card companies dumping credit-protection plans. Credit card holders could soon be saying good-bye to some costly add-on products that promised peace-of-mind during a disaster, such as a job loss. And

August

28

• Employers try new ways to cut health costs. As health care costs continue to increase, employers are looking for ways to cut costs, such as reducing spouse and dependent coverage in 2013, says a

25

• How to know if you have enough auto insurance. There’s nothing like a good scare to send us all scurrying to our auto insurance policy to see what our coverage is. This month,

18

• Alternative to credit scores. Do you ever get the feeling that your credit score doesn’t adequately portray your true risk as an applicant for a home mortgage? If

14

• Seniors pay the price of Ryan's Medicare overhaul plan. We've been hearing — and will continue to hear — a lot about how Paul Ryan's plan to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid would cripple the safety-net healthcare

12

• Ambiguity in Health Law Could Make Family Coverage Too Costly for Many. The new health care law is known as the Affordable Care Act. But Democrats in Congress and advocates for low-income people say coverage may be

07

• Foes assail bill for low-income workers' retirement plan. State legislation to start a retirement plan for low-income workers who get no pensions and rely only on Social Security has run into a storm

04

• Generic medicines saved $193 billion in 2011. Growing use of generic medicines has reduced U.S. health care spending by more than $1 trillion over the past decade, according to an industry-funded study

July

26

• Former Citi chief backs breakup of bank giants. The crowd that wants to break up the biggest banks in the wake of the financial crisis has a new member: a former big banker.