Archambault Proposes Strengthening RI Consumer Protection Laws, Read the Providence Journal Blog Here

3:30 PM Fri, Jul 23, 2010
By Tracy Breton

Stephen Archambault, Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says Rhode Island's consumer protection laws are too weak. If elected, he said, he will ask the General Assembly to revamp them based on Massachusetts' strong deceptive trade practices statute.

Archambault said in a news release that Massachusetts law gives consumers the ability to collect double and triple damages when businesses knowingly violate the law and deceive or trick consumers or fail to correct a problem once informed of it. The attorney general in Massachusetts is also "given broad authority to seek civil penalties when a business violates the law as well as to seek assurances that unlawful practices will stop," he said.

Archambault said that the way Rhode island law is worded now, there are too many "exceptions for classes of businesses."

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