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The Body Shop
Questionable hiring, misidentified bodies, sexual harassment charges and refusal to provide autopsies to defense attorneys are a few of the many problems facing the Adams County Coroner's office. Jim Hibbard, who heads the office, was elected to his position, but had a history of conflict as a former police officer. He appears to have brought that conflict to the coroner's office in the form of sexual harassment, ruined evidence and regulatory violations.
Tags: Coroner; Adams County; autopsy; medical examiner; Jim Hibbard; sexual harassment; identity; defense; police; problems;
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Fraud on Four Wheels
This hidden camera investigation uncovered a widespread network of insurance fraud from body shops to medical clinics to insurance offices. Personal Injury Protection fraud costs drivers an estimated $240 more a year for their insurance premiums.
Tags: insurance; driver's insurance
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Ten Things Your Auto Insurer Won't Tell You
SmartMoney magazine reports on the most common ways in which auto insurance companies can and do hurt their customers. Some of these are: inflating the cost of the insurance policy; determining premiums on the basis of credit rating; pocketing customers' deductibles; policy cancellation or nonrenewal without any explanation; sending customers to faulty direct-repair shops; not informing customers about their right to diminished-value claims; delaying claims payments.
Tags: insurance; cars; automobiles; driving record; credit history; credit score; premiums; marital status; deductible; body shops; GM; Geico; Allstate
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At Work investigates how many new age companies like Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Body Shop cosmetics promote themselves for using small amounts of Brazil nuts and other eco-friendly ingredients from the Amazon in ice cream, candy and cosmetics. At Work reports the harvest has had disastrous economic and cultural consequences on native cultures. (May 1, 1995)
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The Toronto Globe and Mail investigates how many new age companies like Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Body Shop cosmetics promote themselves for using small amounts of Brazil nuts and other eco-friendly ingredients from the Amazon in ice cream, candy and cosmetics. The Globe and Mail reports the harvest has had disastrous economic and cultural consequences on native cultures. (Sept. 29, 1995)
Tags: Entine Rain-forest chic Commerical markets Product ingredients 32 pgs.
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"Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?" exposed the arrogance and hypocrisy of the company widely regarded as the model, socially responsible business. The founder of the Body Shop cosmetic company, Anita Roddick, has been praised as the icon of progressive business and a feminist role model. Roddick has been featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines and has been given dozens of awards for her supposedly progressive business practices. This investigation broke through the veil of company propaganda to tell the remarkable story of a myth built on fabrications and exaggerations and sustained by libel threats and the cult-like blindness of a public desperate for heroes. The article suggests a troubling thesis: green consumerism is baby boom agitprop propagated by and for a generation filled with illusion of its own moral destiny - and eager to make money. The misleading hype surrounding "cause related marketing" appears so broad and calculated, and has required the silent complicity of so many social activists, fair trade groups, environmentalists, and progressive business leaders as to raise doubts about the ethics of the entire movement for social responsibility. (September 1, 1994)
Tags: Entine Shattered image: is the body shop too good to be true
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WJZ-TV (Baltimore) reports on a close relationship between an auto body shop and towing service and the Baltimore Police Department, which allows the towing service drivers to take advantage of accident victims by using illegal and unethical sales tactics on expensive repair work at their shops, Nov. 16, 1992.
Tags: MD Collins tape