Iowa is cracking down on chiropractors...

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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has stopped chiropractors Jeffrey Murray Hockings and Dean Draluck from marketing their Help Your Diabetes (HYD) program in Iowa. The compliance agreement bans them from engaging or participating, directly or indirectly, in any form of marketing of a diabetes program to Iowa residents. The Attorney General's news release states:

Last year, Hockings conducted a "Help Your Diabetes" seminar at a Cedar Rapids hotel, selling enrollments in 2- to 4-month programs that included dietary supplements, recipes, and follow-up phone and email support.
Two elderly Iowans who attended the seminar and paid approximately $4,000 each in enrollment fees, complained to Iowa's Consumer Protection Division after Hockings refused to allow them to cancel and obtain refunds.
Contrary to Iowa law, Hockings replied that the contracts they signed waived their rights to cancel or seek refunds. However, the agreements violated the Iowa Door-to-Door Sales Act by not mentioning the lawful right to cancel and by including a waiver of the right to cancel.
Iowans should be wary of seminars and sales meetings that offer free meals, gifts, or extraordinary claims that entice you to attend. Sellers often use high-pressure sales tactics to promote the purchase their products or services.

Neither Hockings nor Draluck is licensed to practice chiropractic in Iowa. Hockings, who is licensed in California, was the target of an investigative report in in 2011. [Lazarus D. Diabetes breakthrough? He may charge you $15,000 to find out. Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2011] Draluck had a Florida license that was indefinitely suspended in 2013 for failing to tell the licensing board that he had been convicted of driving under the influence and driving with a suspended driver's license. HYD licenses its program to about 40 offices, most operated by medical doctors, some of whom have a chiropractic associate.

https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/texas-chiropractors-to-cease-future-iowa-natural-diabetes-program-seminars/

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/17/business/la-fi-lazarus-20110617

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1. Yikes - Iowa was always so big on chiro's -Palmer School in Davenport

Surprising.