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Telemarketers Loosing Access

The Dallas Morning News reports that Texas drivers involved in accidents will no longer be required to furnish telephone numbers for crash reports under an agreement between two state agencies trying to pull the plug on phone solicitations by telemarketers. The telemarketers generally try to drum up business for chiropractors, lawyers and body shops, according...

Jobless Rates Hit 5.1%

According to The Houston Chronicle, employers slashed 80,000 jobs in March, the most in five years and the third straight month of losses. At the same time, the national unemployment rate rose from 4.8 percent to 5.1 percent, the clearest signal yet that the economy might already be shrinking. The new snapshot of the job...

Chiropractors Accused of Multistate Scam

As reported by the Dallas Morning News, Allstate Insurance Co. filed a lawsuit Thursday in Dallas against Chiropractic Strategies Group Inc. of Arlington, accusing it of orchestrating a multistate scam involving doctors, lawyers and telemarketers. According to the lawsuit, telemarketers working for Chiropractic Strategies solicited auto accident victims to come in for a free check-up....

Allstate Scheme

According to the Miami Herald, Allstate is facing contempt charges in Missouri — with a $25,000-a-day fine — and now it can’t sell new auto policies in Florida, in part, because it wants to protect a report written by a corporate consultant. Allstate has said those documents — along with others that Florida regulators are...