Rachel Monroe Florida’s limitation periods for consumer debt run 5 years on written contracts, 4 years on open accounts, 3 years on hospital medical debt, and 20 years on a Florida judgment. Where the clock starts and what restarts it.
Whether the California lemon law reaches a used car turns on the warranty, not the odometer. How the Song-Beverly Act treats factory-warranty balances, certified pre-owned coverage, dealer warranties, and “as is” sales.
How a new vehicle qualifies as a lemon in Ohio: the one-year/18,000-mile protection period, the four repair-attempt presumptions, what a full refund includes, and the arbitration and five-year filing rules.
Minnesota has no single employee vs independent contractor test. Unemployment insurance weighs five factors, workers’ compensation centers on control, and building construction runs a 14-part statutory test with penalties of up to $10,000 per misclassified worker.
A map of the state statutes that set pay, hours, leave, classification, and job-protection rules for New Jersey workers, with the current figures and the agency that enforces each one.
California consumer protection runs through four main statutes plus a set of agencies that take complaints. This page maps which law covers which dispute, what each one lets a consumer recover, the deadlines that apply, and where complaints and lawsuits get filed.
How Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act works: what it prohibits, what a consumer can recover, the two-year filing deadline, and how Attorney General enforcement fits alongside private claims.
How Georgia’s Fair Business Practices Act and related statutes protect consumers, who enforces them, and what a private FBPA lawsuit requires.
Chapter 17 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code is the state’s core consumer protection statute. What it prohibits, what a consumer can recover, the two-year deadline and the 60-day notice rule, the exemptions that take claims out of the Act, and which agency handles which kind of complaint.
Florida’s consumer protection framework, from FDUTPA’s ban on unfair and deceptive practices to the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act, including who enforces each law, what a private lawsuit can recover, and the filing deadlines that apply.
Minnesota has no statute requiring employers to cash out unused vacation or PTO at termination. The employer’s written policy decides whether the balance is owed, and the wage-payment statutes decide when it must be paid.
No Massachusetts statute requires severance pay. When an employer offers it, the money is consideration for a signed release of claims, and the release is governed by federal waiver-timing rules, the Wage Act, and the noncompete statute.