Let’s hope this battle doesn’t require hospitalization for either opponent. In one corner you’ve got Anthem, which needs a 35% rate increase in California, despite making billions in profits. In the other corner is Assurant, who targeted and subsequently dropped HIV patients from its insurance rolls. [More]
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Worst Company In America 2010: Toyota VS GM
By 4.2.10
A bailed-out, bankrupt car company VS one dealing with its first major crisis. The two companies have a long history together… in fact up until recently, they operated a plant in California. Both are unpopular right now… but which one is worse? [More]
Worst Company In America: Apple VS Microsoft
By 4.1.10
It’s time for these two foes to step into the Red Ring of Death. Will Microsoft’s trail of dead Xboxes and too-late knockoffs of iPods and iPhones be enough to get them past Apple, the company that charges you $499 for an oversized iPod Touch and then only lets you use software they approve and sell to you? [More]
Worst Company In America: AT&T VS Verizon
By 4.1.10
It’s a battle of the telecom titans today, as AT&T — better known as the company that didn’t think New Yorkers would actually get iPhones for Christmas and the ones responsible to those ads that made us dislike Luke Wilson — takes on Verizon, home of $350 ETF and those ads that make us want to give the FiOS guy a swirly in the boys room between classes. [More]
Worst Company In America: Comcast VS DirecTV
By 3.31.10
Here we go, folks. It’s DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket monopoly, creepy Chris Farley Ads and draconian enforcement of early termination fees VS well, what can you say about Comcast. They’ve got issues. [More]
Worst Company In America: United VS Continental
By 3.31.10
Another battle in the skies, it’s United, which breaks guitars, vs Continental, which leaves you stranded on the tarmac for so long the DOT actually starts to care. [More]
Worst Company In America: Delta VS US Airways
By 3.30.10
Delta merged with Northwest Airlines and has been having some trouble with little details like “landing in the state of Minnesota without missing it.” US Airways has a stinky plane that sends you to the hospital. [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: AIG VS Cash4Gold
By 3.29.10
Last year’s winner, AIG, takes on a small little company out of Florida. It’s David VS Goliath. [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: Ticketmaster VS NBC
By 3.26.10
It’s a media merger throw down! Ticketmaster merged with LiveNation because the thought of being able to buy tickets from more than one company apparently causes a breakdown in the fabric of spacetime. NBC is about to merge with Kabletown, wait, that sounds wrong, Xfinity, wait… Comcast, that’s it. [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: Chase VS Capital One
By 3.26.10
Another banking showdown. CapitalOne, notorious for shady fees and now for raising interest rates ahead of the CARD Act, and Chase… well, we suppose this sums up how people feel about the banking giant. [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: HP VS Dell
By 3.25.10
Computer showdown. The black hole that is HP’s warranty repair operation vs Dell’s inability to actually ship stuff a reasonable time after you order it.
Which one makes you want to burn down your own house? Oh wait, they both do! [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: Charter VS Time Warner Cable
By 3.25.10
It’s time for two major cable companies to put the gloves on. In one corner, Time Warner Cable, which has drawn the ire of lawmakers and consumers alike for its love of “consumption based billing,” an idea so wildly unpopular that they had to put it on hold before people got the pitchforks and torches out. [More]
Best Buy & HP Make Both Worst Company & Most Ethical Company Lists
By 3.25.10
This week, Ethisphere issued its annual list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, and while there are several recognizable names (Starbucks, Gap, Ford, Nike, American Express), two of the 100 companies listed — Best Buy and Hewlett Packard — also got enough nominations from Consumerist readers to make it into the 2010 Worst Company In America tournament. [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: Sears/Kmart VS Walmart
By 3.24.10
It’s a big box battle! Economic powerhouse and receipt checking enthusiast Walmart VS notoriously incompetent repair scheduling and pricing error specialist Sears/Kmart. [More]
Worst Company In America 2010: Bank of America VS Citibank
By 3.24.10
It’s been another rough year for the banking industry. The CARD Act is hitting them where it hurts — in the fees. Bank of America shed a CEO who is being sued for fraud by the AG of New York. All of this is apparently so distracting that Bank of America can’t remember which houses it’s supposed to foreclose on, and Citibank can’t remember that your social security number isn’t supposed to go on the outside of mailing envelopes. [More]
Behold The 2010 Worst Company In America Bracket!
By 3.24.10
Now that your NCAA bracket is all messed up from Kansas losing, it’s time to move on and fill out your (suitable for printing) 2010 Worst Company in America bracket. [More]
Nexon Isn't Worst Company In America, Yet
By 3.24.10
When we began polling readers about companies they thought should be on this year’s Worst Company in America ballot, we started noticing quite a few nominations for a certain company: No, not AIG, last year’s Golden Poo recipient. Not perennial bad boys Bank of America, Comcast or Best Buy. Not even Toyota, this year’s wild child. What company earned the opprobrium of voters, and still didn’t make the cut? Korean gaming company Nexon, that’s who. Nexon? Yeah, we were surprised, too. [More]
