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Consumer Complaints Skip to related topics, library resources, and law review articles

Attorneys see: Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct: Complaints

Autos / Vehicles see: Vehicles: Complaints

Banks / Financial Institutions see: Banking Law: Complaints

Businesses / Companies / Organizations

• Multiple Types of Businesses
  • Business Professions (WI Dept. of Safety & Professional Services)
    View list of covered professions.
  • Businesses (Better Business Bureau)
  • Businesses (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
    Complaints related to credit cards, disputed debt, collection practices, billing errors, 3 day right to cancel, etc.
  • Businesses / Organizations (Federal Trade Commission)
  • Food Safety and Retail (WI DATCP)
• Specific Types of Businesses
  • Door-to-Door Solicitation (WI Dept. of Agriculture Trade & Consumer Protection)
  • International scams and problems with foreign companies (Federal Trade Commission)

Consumers

• General Complaints see: Consumer Protection: Complaints
• Specific
  • Debt Collection see: Debt Collection: Complaints
  • Product Safety see: Consumer Protection: Recalls/Product Safety: Complaints

Disabilities see: Disability Law: Complaints

Education see: Education: Complaints

Elections

• Campaign Finance see: Politics & Elections: Complaints
• Candidates' Qualifications see: Politics & Elections: Complaints

Employment

• Discrimination see: Employment Discrimination: Complaints
• Labor Practices
  • Labor Relations Dispute Resolution Services (WI Employment Relations Commission)
• Labor Standards see Labor Standards: Complaints
• Workplace Safety see: OHSA & Workplace Safety: Complaints

Environment

• Violation Hotline (WI Dept. of Natural Resources)
• Air Quality (WI Dept. of Natural Resources)
• Hazardous Substance Spills (WI Dept. of Natural Resources)
  Contacts for reporting problems
• Medical / Infectious Wastes (WI Dept. of Natural Resources)
• Recycling / Composting (WI Dept. of Natural Resources)
  Information for a variety of products & programs.

Fraud / Waste related to...

• Consumer Transactions see: Consumer Protection: Fraud
• HUD Programs
• Medicare

Gaming see: Gaming/Gambling: Complaints

Government

• Government Officials see: Public Officials / Employees: Complaints
  
  
• Judges / Court Commissioners see: Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct: Complaints
  
  
• Law Enforcement see: Law Enforcement: Complaints
  
  
• Laws, WI & Federal
  Contact your legislator

Guardianship, Corporate see: Guardianship: Corporate Guardianship: Complaints

Health

• Health / Residential Care (WI Dept. of Health Services)
  Includes caregiver misconduct, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home health / hospice agencies, etc.
• Health Professionals / Doctors / Dentists (WI Dept. of Health Services)
  Also includes health care facilities, health plan, medical debt, etc.
• Health Professions (WI Dept. of Safety & Professional Services)
  View list of covered professions.
• Mental Health see: Mental Health: Complaints

Identity Theft see: Identity Theft: Complaints / Forms

Insurance

• Health Insurance see: Health Plans & Insurance: Complaints
• Insurance see: Insurance Law: Complaints

Internet see: Internet Crime: Complaints

Landlord/Tenant see: Landlord / Tenant Law: Complaints

Medicare see: Medicare: Complaints / Fraud

Real Estate / Housing

• Housing Discrimination
  • Housing Discrimination (WI Dept. of Workforce Development)
  • Housing Discrimination (U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development)
• Home Improvement see: Home Ownership: Home Improvement: Complaints
• Manufactured Housing (U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development)
• Real Estate: Complaints / Fraud

Securities see: Securities: Complaints

Telecommunications

• Complaints (Federal Communications Commission)
  Disability access to communications, junk fax, telemarketing, do-not-call, wired and wireless phones, broadband, broadcast, cable, and satellite, tower outages, open internet or net neutrality.
• Media Violence (Federal Trade Commission)
• Telecommunications Complaint (WI Dept. of Agriculture Trade & Consumer Protection)
• Telecommunications (Federal Communications Commission)
  Includes "billing disputes, cramming, wireless questions, telephone company advertising practices, paging services, unsolicited telephone marketing calls and faxes, and accessibility by persons with disabilities to telecommunications equipment and services."

Telemarketing/No Call see: Telemarketing / Telephone Shopping: Do Not Call: Complaints

Utilities

• Utilities (WI Public Service Commission)

Weights & Measures

• Weights and Measures Complaint (WI Dept. of Agriculture Trade & Consumer Protection)

Related Topics

• Consumer Complaints
• Consumer Protection
• Federal Law
• Legal Assistance
• Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct
• Tort Law
• Wisconsin Law

Law Review Articles

• Attorney Discipline: Demystifying the Grievance Process
  70 Wis Lawyer 4 (Apr 1997)
• Measuring Consumer Perceptions of Procedural Justice in a Complaint Context
  Jnl of Consumer Affairs 34.2 (Wntr 2000)
• Processing Civilian Complaints
  Marquette L Rev 77.3 (Spring 1994)
• Wiretapping Scandals Spawn Federal Suits
  National Law Journal 12.21 (Jan 29, 1990)
• Wisconsin Equal Rights Division: Attorney Attitudes Toward its Handling of Age Discrimination in Employment Complaints
  Labor Law Jnl 42.4 (Apr 1991)

Library Resources

• Automobile Fraud: Odometer Tampering; Lemon Laundering; and Concealment of Salvage or Other Adverse History
• Citizen Oversight of Law Enforcement
• Complaint Guide for the Wisconsin Consumer
• Have You Heard the One About ...? Lawyer Jokes and the Public Perception of the Legal Profession
• Managing Ethical Issues in Your Day-to-Day Practice
• Police Use of Excessive Force: a Conciliation Handbook for the Police and the Community
• Wisconsin Open Meetings Law

Journals & Legal Databases

• FDA Consumer
• HeinOnline
• Police Law Quarterly

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