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Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), a leading global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases, today announced the closing of the sale of its investment in Iké Asistencia (Iké) and certain of its affiliates. Iké is a servic......
APCO Holdings, LLC announced the launch of MemberCare, a new brand of vehicle protection products that will be sold through credit unions. MemberCare offers credit unions the ability to provide additional value to their members by helping them protect their new and used-vehicle p......
American Guardian Warranty Services, Inc. (AGWS), an industry leading finance and insurance (F&I) provider that offers products and services in the automotive, RV, powersports, marine, and commercial trucking markets, has announced brand new product additions to their Appearance ......
Lone Wolf Technologies announced today an integration with First American Home Warranty, one of the leading home warranty providers in the nation and a subsidiary of First American Financial Corporation. Real estate agents may access First American Home Warranty's flexible soluti......
ProGuard Warranty announced today that they have formed a partnership with RepairPal to bring their network of Certified repair facilities to ProGuard's base of independent and franchise dealers across the United States. With vehicle service contract companies and auto repair fa......
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) issued a Cease and Desist Order effective immediately upon Omega Vehicle Services, LLC doing business as Delta Auto Protect, and its controlling manager, Charles Seruya, for allegedly selling illegal Vehicle Service Contracts (“VSCsâ......
NXM Labs Inc. today announced NXM CyberSafe®, the world's first insurance-backed cyber security warranty program for connected consumer devices, was named the winner of the 2020 TWICE VIP Award in the Warranty Services category. NXM CyberSafe, which enhances a manufacturer's exi......
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., a global specialty property and casualty insurer and leading underwriter of extended warranties, today released its first "AmTrust 2020 Extended Auto Warranty Advisor." The report identifies common trends for extended warranties and claim payouts......
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered a consent decree imposing a permanent injunction barring two individuals and two companies that transmitted massive volumes of fraudulent robocalls from conveying any telephone calls into the U.S. telephone syst......
A telecom provider accused of carrying extended warranty scam robocalls is shut down as Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement requiring a California-based Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) voice service provider, MODOK LLC, to exit the VoIP tel......
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against a company he believes is deceptively selling service contracts to Pennsylvania senior citizens and other residents. The suit was filed against THS Group LLC, d/b/a Total Home Protection and its owners, father......
GWC Warranty announces the launch of significant updates to their core vehicle service contract offering that allows dealers to provide even better levels of coverage and more options for consumers. These enhancements to the already expansive vehicle service contract product were......
Americans received around 147.2 million extended warranty scam robocalls in June 2020 according to the YouMail Robocall Index's report which was released on July 8, 2020. The number represents a slight downtick of just over 2 million warranty scam calls as compared to May 2020, w......
ProGuard Warranty is collaborating with SiriusXM to offer their customers nationwide a three-month SiriusXM subscription, included at no extra cost, with the purchase of any ProGuard protection plan for their vehicle. Eligible customers with a factory installed SiriusXM radio wil......
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today announced that his office has obtained a settlement that bans AutoAssure, LLC, also known as Vehicle Services Department, from marketing in Minnesota......
Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), a leading global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases, today reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020. “I am exceedingly proud of the dedication and resiliency demo......
Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), a leading global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases, today announced it has acquired American Financial & Automotive Services, Inc. (AFAS). AFAS is a provider of auto finance and insur......
The home warranty company known for their concierge level services, Liberty Home Guard, announced today that they have received their license to operate in the states of Arkansas and Massachusetts. This will mark the 38th and 39th states (including Washington DC) where Liberty Ho......
HomeServe USA, a leading provider of home repair solutions serving more than 4.2 million customers across the US and Canada, will acquire Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Sunbelt Group’s ServLine business division (https://www.servline.com/), a National Rural Water Association (NRW......
On May 1, The Federal Communications Commission issued an order that will end the practice of warning most robocallers before issuing penalties for violating the law and for harassing consumers with unwanted robocalls. Such warnings were previously required by law until the TRAC......
For the second consecutive month, auto warranty scam robocalls topped YouMail's robocall index, which measures the volume of robocalls received by Americans each month. YouMail,estimates that U.S. consumers ......
Extended auto warranty scam robocalls topped the YouMail robocall index for the first time in July 2020. YouMail estimates in their latest report that consumers received 208.4 million car warranty scam roboc......
According to the YouMail Robocall Index, warranty scam robocalls were up 10 percent in May 2020 over the prior month. An estimated total of 149.5 million extended warranty robocalls were placed in May, a total of nearly 5 million illegal warranty robocalls each day. The increase......
The Federal Communications Commission today proposed a $225 million fine against Texas-based health insurance telemarketers for apparently making approximately 1 billion illegally spoofed robocalls. This is the largest proposed fine in the FCC’s 86-year history, reflecting the......
If you own a vehicle and a phone, you may receive calls from scammers posing as representatives of a car dealer, manufacturer or insurer telling you that your auto warranty or insurance is about to expire. The call will include some sort of pitch for renewing your warranty or pol......
No matter your age, no one is immune to scams. But older adults report higher median losses. Why is that? Scammers often target this group with schemes, such as investment fraud and romance scams, where victims lose thousands of dollars. Watch out for these tricks and techniques ......
Owners of certain 2017 and 2018 received warranty extensions from Subaru covering their Starlink infotainment system for 5 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first. The system was previously covered under Subaru's 3 year / 36,000 miles new-car warranty. The warranty extens......
A declaratory ruling issued on June 25th by the Federal Communications Commission could open the door for telemarketers of extended warranties and other products to further exploit loopholes in the TCPA. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was implemented in the early 19......
PARRIS Law Firm of Lancaster, CA filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against technology giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on behalf of class members on May 6, 2020, alleging, among other items, that the company violated the Song-Beverly Warranty Act. The lawsuit, filed in the N......
On Thursday, April 16th a class action lawsuit was filed against CarGuard Administration, Inc., Vehicle Protection Specialists LLC and AutoProtecht LLC. The complaint, with lead Plaintiffs Joseph Barrett and Matthew Silverman, alleges that telemarketers Vehicle Protection Special......
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) issued a Cease and Desist Order effective immediately upon Omega Vehicle Services, LLC doing business as Delta Auto Protect, and its controlling manager, Charles Seruya, for allegedly selling illegal Vehicle Service Contracts (“VSCsâ......
HomeServe USA, a provider of home emergency repair service plans, announced a new partnership with United Pipeline Limited (UPL) to offer optional home repair service plans to their residential customers in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia states served by......
Saturdays and Sundays are, for the most part peaceful. "Why," you ask, "my weekends are insane. There's never enough time to get everything done, and the next thing you know, it 9 o'clock on Sunday night." Agreed. The thing that makes the weekend peaceful for me is that my phone......
