May 20, 2024 | Board of Pharmacy | Division of Consumer Affairs | Hormonal Contraception | Pharmacists | Reproductive Health | State Board of Medical Examiners | Division of Consumer Affairs | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Standing Up for Reproductive Rights
Advancing New Jersey’s commitment to protecting reproductive rights and expanding access to reproductive health care, Governor Murphy today announced several actions by the State which together have the effect of authorizing qualified pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives to patients without a prescription.
May 13, 2024 | Bureau of Securities | business practices | Division of Consumer Affairs | Examination of Investment Advisers | firm organization | investment accounts | investment adviser firms | investment concentration | risk assessment tool | securities industry | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Bureau of Securities (“Bureau”) within the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that the Bureau’s annual investment adviser examination is underway.
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.
May 8, 2024 | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative | Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal Valuation Equity | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) | New Jersey State Real Estate Appraiser Board | Newark NAACP | NJHMFA’s First-Time Homebuyer Program | Wealth Disparity Task Force | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) and Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) have launched several new public education resources as part of Attorney General Platkin’s Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative.
Apr 19, 2024 | Alleged Sexual Misconduct | Division of Consumer Affairs | Female Patients | gross malpractice | North Jersey Cardiologist | professional misconduct | Revokeed License | sexual misconduct | State Board of Medical Examiners | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Licensing & Permits | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Sexual Assault Victims
Board Action Follows Resolution of Criminal Charges Filed in Passaic County in Connection with Patient Allegations of Inappropriate Touching.
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.
