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"Contractor Cons"
WINK-TV reporters do in-depth reports on several Florida contractors whose unhappy customers accuse them of fraud and improper business practices. The contractors (Challenger Pools, DeSpirito Kitchen, Sunstate Designs, and Homecare Industries) are accused of taking their customer's money and not completing jobs, and in some cases, not having a valid contractor's license at all. In many instances, the customer pays the contractor a deposit to complete the job, while the contractor does not pay it's sub-contractors and suppliers. As a result, these sub-contractors can force the customer to pay, or put a lien on their homes in response ot Florida's Lien Law.
Tags: contractor fraud; Challenger Pools; DeSpirito Kitchen; Sunstate Designs; Homecare Industries; Florida Lien Law
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Is Fraud Poisoning Home Health Care
Business Week reports that "after an extensibve investigation into the rapidly expanding home health-care industry, Business Week found rampant fraud and abuse. Problems ranged from financial scams ripping off millions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare to instances of neglect and abuse of elderly or incapacitated patients by untrained, unqualified, or unlicensed home-care workers. Business Week discovered that many of the problems uncovered are an outgrowth of lax federal and state regulations and too little oversight of comapanies' practices, and ineffective industry groups."