Defend Yourself!
How to Protect Your Health, Your Money, And Your Rights in 10 Key Areas of Your Life
Published on 15. December 2023
224 pages
978-0-06-231198-6 (ISBN)
Description
Talk Back / Fight Back
Patient, client, employee, small business owner, taxpayer, investor, consumer-it's time to defend yourself! Why should anyone tolerate an HMO not paying for his emergency surgery because he didn't give notice beforehand or accept a higher auto insurance rate because she lives in a low-income community? A large body of laws and regulations exists to give average workers and consumers the tools to talk back and fight back.
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Mark J. Green
Defend Yourself!
How to Protect Your Health, Your Money, And Your Rights in 10 Key Areas of Your Life
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03/2006
Newmarket Press,U.S.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Talking Back and Fighting Back to Vindicate Your Rights
- Chapter 1. The Rights of Patients
- Key Health Laws
- Health Insurance
- Hospitals
- Rx Drugs
- Fix It: Healing the Health Care System
- Chapter 2. The Rights of Clients
- Key Laws for Legal Clients
- Being Your Own Client: Do It Yourself
- Hiring a Lawyer
- Negotiating a Contract
- How to Be a Private Attorney General
- Fix It: Protecting Clients' Rights
- Chapter 3. The Rights of Employees
- Key Laws at Work
- Fair Pay, Fair Play
- Health Is Wealth
- Workers Comp
- "No Blacks or Women Need Apply": Discrimination at Work
- Losing Work: Unemployment Benefits
- Fix It: Protecting Workers' Rights
- Chapter 4. The Rights of Consumers of Products
- Key Consumer Laws
- Shopping Basics
- Internet Shopping
- Shopping for Cars
- Product Safety and Recalls
- Fix It: Protecting Consumer Rights
- Chapter 5. The Rights of Consumers of Financial Services
- Key Financial Services Laws
- Credit Cards
- Bank on It
- Identity Theft
- Dealing with Debt
- Fix It: Preserving Consumer Financial Rights
- Chapter 6. The Rights of Taxpayers
- Key Taxpayer Laws
- Filing: The Ides of April
- Audits, Agents, and Appeals
- Paying the Taxman
- Fix It: A Taxing Challenge
- Chapter 7. The Rights of Shareholders
- Key Laws for Shareholders
- Finding a Broker
- Fighting Broker Fraud
- Taking on the Corporation
- Class Action Lawsuits
- Shareholder Resolutions
- Fix It: Ideas to Invest In
- Chapter 8. The Rights of Spouses
- Key Laws on Divorce
- Types of Divorce
- Money and Divorce
- Custody
- Finding and Keeping a Good Lawyer
- Fix It: Ending the Divorce War
- Chapter 9. The Rights of Small Business Owners
- Key Small Business Laws
- Defending Your Business
- Get Organized
- A Name by Any Other
- License and Registration, Please
- Chapter 10. Citizen Action
- Key Laws for Citizens
- Community Organizing
- The Executive Branch
- The Legislative Branch
- Research Your Course
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Mark Green
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
