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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Imposter scams often begin with a call, text message, or email. The scams may vary, but work the same way – a scammer pretends to be someone you trust to convince you to send them money or share personal information. Click here for more.
Coke to ‘retire’ its iconic TaB diet drink
Coca-Cola is pruning its beverage portfolio and “retiring” some brands that haven’t sold well as consumer tastes have changed.
Among the brands disappearing from store shelves by Dec. 31 is TaB, a one-calorie diet soda introduced in 1963 when diet drinks were a rarity. It hung around for nearly 60 years but lost market share to today’s huge number of diet drinks, including Diet Coke. Click here for more.
Your Money
If you think it's fun to find money under couch cushions or a random coin in a parking lot, just wait until you start looking through databases for finding lost or unclaimed money. Chances are, you'll find it more fun – and possibly far more profitable. Banks, insurance companies and the U.S. Treasury, among other organizations, have websites that are designed to help people find money owed to them that, for whatever reason, never made it to their bank accounts. Say you closed out an old bank account and failed to withdraw payments from a former employer. Or you switched jobs and forgot about a former retirement or pension plan. Maybe you moved and neglected to update your address, resulting in a misaddressed payment or tax refund. If there's money out there that's owed to you, it may be waiting for you in a database. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
FINRA postpones in-person arbitrations and mediations until 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FINRA has extended the postponement of all in-person arbitration and mediation hearings scheduled through January 1, 2021. If parties decide to postpone an in-person hearing, the postponement will not affect other case deadlines. However, if all parties and arbitrators agree to proceed in-person based on their own assessment of public health conditions, and applicable state and local orders allow, a case may proceed with an in-person hearing provided that the participants comply with state and local orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Parties may also opt to proceed telephonically or by Zoom, or a panel may order that the hearings take place telephonically or by Zoom. Click here for more.