Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined 36 other attorneys general to announce the largest multistate consumer protection settlement ever with a pharmaceutical company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., over its unlawful marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan put Illinois gas retailers on notice that her office will be monitoring stations for price gouging as Hurricane Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast in advance of Labor Day weekend.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that her office has distributed $4.5 million in funding from the national foreclosure settlement reached earlier this year to the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation. Madigan said the grant will help to provide much-needed legal services to struggling homeowners in Central and Southern Illinois.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday filed a lawsuit and announced a settlement with a downstate woman who cheated families across the country out of thousands of dollars in payments for service dogs to assist children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) alerted Illinois parents and caregivers Aug. 15 to a recall of Bumbo baby seats announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in response to growing reports of serious injuries to babies.
Read MoreUnder a state law that took effect last year, schools are allowed to stock and use prescription medicine that can save the lives of students with severe allergic reactions. But when school nurses asked doctors to prescribe the epinephrine shots, better known as EpiPens, many encountered a problem: Doctors, accustomed to writing prescriptions for individual patients, weren't sure how to prescribe an EpiPen to a school.
Read MoreMichael Brown was not on the Jacksonville Police Department’s radar before he was arrested last month. According to Morgan County court records, his most serious previous criminal offense might have been screeching his tires.
Read MoreAs the start of a new school year approaches, Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with doctors and advocates to increase access to EpiPens in Illinois schools to better protect a growing number of children suffering from deadly food allergies.
Read MoreAfter we sued Westwood College for misleading students about the cost and quality of its criminal justice program, we heard from more than a thousand students who had sought to better themselves with advanced training, but instead found themselves with as much as $70,000 in debt for a worthless degree and limited job prospects.
Read More“We have found that drug makers lure people into using these drugs by disguising them in misleading packages and passing them off as legal products,” Madigan said. “The manufacturers are also continually reformulating these toxic substances to circumvent the drug laws. This new law ends the game of catch up and cracks down on retail sales by classifying as illegal any chemical that’s sold to be taken as a drug, regardless of what it’s called or how it’s labeled.”
The arrest of Fred A. Tribbett Jr., 39, at his home in Kilbourne was part of Attorney General Lisa Madigan's Operation Glass House, a crackdown on the state’s most active traffickers who download and trade child pornography online.
Read MoreA Chicago-based law firm specializing in consumer debt settlement that was sued by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan plans to wind down its business nationally, its general counsel confirmed Thursday.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) commended Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s July 25 enactment of two consumer protection measures she wrote and negotiated: The Debtors’ Rights Act of 2012, which will prevent poor people from being jailed over unpaid debts, and an amendment to the Tax Refund Anticipation Loan Reform Act, a measure that will better protect consumers from the exceedingly high costs of refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation checks.
At the signing, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said customers usually don't know they're being charged for the bogus services--things like "special voicemail" or "identity theft insurance."
Read MoreThe Justice Department announced a fair-lending settlement with Wells Fargo & Co., Thursday morning that will compensate tens of thousands of the bank's African-American and Hispanic borrowers who were steered into high-cost, subprime mortgages.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said the state has settled a lawsuit it filed against a Chicago-based law firm alleging that it unlawfully charged consumers upfront fees to provide debt settlement services with promises to make them debt free.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) joined several of her counterparts, U.S. senators and federal officials June 27 to announce a settlement with a California-based company over allegations that its website, www.GIBill.com, deceptively steered U.S. service members and veterans to use their federal education benefits with the company’s preferred clients in the for-profit schools industry.
Read MoreIndiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today convened an interstate summit to tackle the region’s growing threat of small-batch methamphetamine production and increasing use of synthetic drugs. They said coordinated strategies will better protect the public.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today announced the arrest of a Rockford man as part of her Operation Glass House crackdown on the most active traffickers in Illinois who download and trade child pornography online.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is hoping to educate people regarding the potential to get taken for a ride when buying a used car.
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