AG Rosenblum Announces $4 Million Settlement with CenturyLink

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced a $4 million settlement with the global telecommunications company CenturyLink for engaging in deceptive advertising by door-to-door salespeople, deceptive billing practices, undisclosed fees, and failing to apply promised discounts to customer accounts. Since 2014, Oregon DOJ has received more than 1,200 consumer complaints about CenturyLink. As part of… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, Media Release, News on December 31, 2019

Statement by Attorney General Rosenblum on ACA

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today issued the following statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Texas v U.S. involving the legality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A coalition of 21 attorneys general, including Oregon, defended the ACA and the healthcare of millions of Americans in the Fifth Circuit in July…. View Article

Posted in Media Release on December 19, 2019

Attorney General Rosenblum Asks FTC to Strengthen Online Protections for Children

Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum joined a bipartisan coalition of 25 State Attorneys General to submit a comment letter to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) asking the agency to strengthen its rules prohibiting websites, mobile applications, and digital marketing companies from collecting personal information from children under the age of 13, and using that information to… View Article

Posted in Media Release, Privacy on December 10, 2019

AG Rosenblum Sues Johnson & Johnson for Deceptive Marketing of Pelvic Mesh Devices

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today filed a lawsuit in Multnomah County Circuit Court against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. for deceptively marketing transvaginal surgical mesh devices to women in Oregon by failing to disclose the dangerous complications sometimes arising from the devices. According to the complaint, at least 3,700 Oregon… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, Media Release on December 3, 2019

Tips for Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday

Today is Cyber Monday and tomorrow is Giving Tuesday. In other words, today we’re taking advantage of online sales, and tomorrow we’re using the web to support important causes. Computers and mobile phones make all of this so easy-and, for the most part, that is a good thing. First, though, are you asking important questions… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, News on December 2, 2019