Accepts and investigates complaints about businesses and upholds business practices to a high standard for ethical marketplace behavior.

Accepts and investigates consumer fraud reports including reports about charities and nonprofits. Also the state counsel and Medicaid fraud unit. Provides assistance to victims of crimes that happened within New York State.

Accepts and investigates complaints about businesses and upholds business practices to a high standard for ethical marketplace behavior.

Accepts and investigates consumer fraud reports including reports about charities and nonprofits. Also the state counsel and Medicaid fraud unit. Provides assistance to victims of crimes that happened within New York State.

The Public Service Commission staff helps resolve complaints with utilities.

Assists individuals who want to file a complaint about foundation-based, non-profits, consumer protection, and health care agencies, issues of safety, unethical behavior, etc.

Provides reliability reports on area businesses, charities and general consumer information, and helps to resolve complaints through Mediation and Arbitration.

Provides general information about products or services, reliability reports, background information regarding local businesses, and the records of the companies complaint handling performances. Accepts complaints against businesses and helps to resolve disputes through mediation or binding arbitration utilizing volunteer arbitration panels. Serves Metropolitan New York, Long Island, and the Mid-Hudson Region.

Provides live educational outreach presentations which focus on identity theft prevention and mitigation; avoiding the latest scams; choosing and using credit wisely; and product safety.

Receives and evaluates consumer complaints, applies protection laws, and mediates during resolutions. Utility Company complaints also appropriate for this office.

Issues licenses to home improvement contractors and handles consumer complaints about work done in Suffolk County in these trades. Resolves home improvement complaints, division investigators advise consumers of their rights as well as offers CE courses. Call for more detailed information.

A national organization to help reduce the number of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. Investigates consumer complaints on product safety issues, negotiates recalls of defective consumer products and enforces the regulations that govern CPSC. Deals with consumer products except for automobiles, car seats, food and drugs. Provides a newsletter and educational material.

Regional Office of the New York Attorney General serving Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming Counties. Helps citizens by protecting consumers and investors, charitable donors, the public health and environment, and the rights of wage-earners and businesses. Bureaus represented in the office include: Consumer Frauds and Public Advocacy, Charities and Not-for-Profits, Criminal Prosecutions, Environmental Protection, Organized Crime Task Force, Public Integrity, State Counsel and Litigation, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and the Sex Offender Management Bureau.

Assists individuals who want to file a complaint about foundation-based, non-profits, consumer protection, and health care agencies, issues of safety, unethical behavior, etc.

* Provides consumer education and information and/or to handle consumer complaints regarding unfair or fraudulent business or credit practices, unsafe or poor quality goods, incompetent services or other similar problems; and to provide solutions through mediation, arbitration.

Assists individuals who want to file a complaint about foundation-based, non-profits, consumer protection, and health care agencies, issues of safety, unethical behavior, etc.

Responsible for enforcing the provisions of the Communications Act, the Commission's rules, orders, and various licensing terms and conditions. The mission is to investigate and respond quickly to potential unlawful conduct.

* Accepts and investigates complaints and consumer fraud reports from individual consumers.

Accepts complaints regarding communication services such as TV, Internet, Phone, Radio or Emergency Communications.

* Works to reduce injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. * Develops voluntary industry standards.* Obtains recalls of unsafe products.* Conducts research on potential hazards.* Responds to consumer inquiries.* Offers free publications.

* Accepts and investigates complaints and consumer fraud reports from individual consumers.

Safeguards the rights of health care consumers statewide through investigation of and enforcement against insurers, providers, drug companies, and other individuals and entities that engage in fraudulent, misleading, deceptive, or illegal practices in the health care market. Offers a toll-free Healthcare Helpline which provides information and assistance to help resolve consumer health-related complaints and make sure consumers and patients get access to the health care they are entitled to. Can help consumers to: - Challenge health insurers that won’t cover their provider costs - Navigate the complex health care system - Target health care organizations that have fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive practices Also educates New Yorkers about the rights and protections they have available to them under the Managed Care Bill of Rights and other health and consumer protection laws, and advocates for legislation and policy initiatives to enhance the rights of health care consumers and their ability to access quality, affordable care in New York State.