Sentence examples for consumer counsel from inspiring English sources

The Connecticut attorney general and consumer counsel are suing to block the merger.

Mary J. Healey, a power company executive, was appointed Connecticut's consumer counsel by Gov. John G. Rowland yesterday.

Mr. Mazza, the consumer counsel, said he is not convinced that having a few companies offer electricity alternatives is what the legislature intended to accomplish with deregulation.

Mr. Merchant, 71, the former consumer counsel, said if the commission applied his case as a litmus test to Mr. Plofsky, it had only one choice.

Joe Rosenthal, principal lawyer with the consumer counsel office, said that the office normally represents consumers as a group in rate disputes, rather than as individuals, but that "we were happy to help".

The state's consumer counsel asked the commission to consider taking some action because NorthWestern carries more than $1.5 billion in liabilities, it faces a series of shareholder lawsuits and its stock price has plummeted this year.

In such cases patients seem to turn to the regional service points, for example model projects, mediation service of the medical council, the consumer counselling centres or counselling facilities of the sickness funds [ 3].

Her focal points are provision of user friendly information on legal foundations and contact details on authorized institutions such as mediation services of the medical council, the consumer counselling centres and counselling facilites of the sickness funds.

"Utilities should be subject to mandatory reporting requirements and inspection of their key control equipment," Jeffrey L. Small, the assistant consumers' counsel in Ohio, testified on Dec. 4 at a hearing of the joint United States-Canada task force investigating the blackout.

On the other is Jon Wellinghoff, a former consumer advocate and staff counsel for the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, who is well regarded by public interest watchdogs.

In Texas, where state law encourages installation of smart meters, the public utility counsel, a consumer advocate, got the utilities to agree to pay tens of millions of dollars for public education and to subsidize the cost of an in-home display to give an instantaneous price in low-income households.