How Marketers Trick Kids, and Why Parents Should Worry
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
In September 2014, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. for allegedly deceptively engaging in a bait and switch scheme. Among other things, plaintiffs claim that the company misleadingly represented that physicians and hospitals participated in the Affordable Care Act Plans when, in reality, they did not. (Davison et al v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co., et al, Case No. BC558566, Superior Court for the State of California for the County of Los Angeles).
For more information about other class-action lawsuits regarding the misleading advertising of insurance and TINA.org’s coverage of the issue, click here.
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
TINA.org pulls back the covers on this company’s Made in USA marketing.
Brand partnerships worthy of a big “doom!”
Derek Kravitz, Consumer Reports
Here were some of the worst ads TINA.org investigated this year.