Consumer Confidential: How did God make it into millions of consumer contracts?
Lee Brubaker believes in a higher power. Call that power "God," call it "the universe," call it what you will. She's a believer.
"I believe there's something there," the West Los Angeles anger-management trainer told me. "What that something is, I do not know."
What she does know, however, is there's no place for a Supreme Being in consumer contracts. Which is why it's puzzling, to say the least, that "acts of God" is cited so frequently as an excuse for not meeting corporate obligations.
"That's got to be the best way in the world for a business to get out of a commitment," Brubaker said.
