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If you have a mortgage on your home, your bank may be charging you for hazard insurance that you already have and do not need. Some banks are deducting money from escrow accounts to pay for duplicate insurance on their customers' homes. They do this without properly checking the records of insurance that the homeowners have given them. Many homeowners do... - Republican Lawmakers Want to Retract New Consumers Rights to Excessive Bank Fees Class Actions
Aug-3-17 Washington, DC: In January, 2015 Capital One resolved a class action lawsuit over excessive bank overdraft fees for $31.7 million ( In re: Checking Account Overdraft Litigation, case number 1:09-md-02036 , in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida). And that Capital One excessive overdraft fees lawsuit was not unique: a rather lar... - Plaintiff Files Proposed Class Action Lawsuit over Nuisance Bank Robocalls
Jun-11-17 Orlando, FL: The availability of autodialing technology is not lost on the banking industry, competitive as it is. And while disgruntled plaintiffs line up over Comenity Bank TCPA violations , as an example, Comenity is not the only bank accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). To that end, Capital One NA is facing a pro... - Unfair Car Title Loans a Growing Trend
Jan-8-17 Washington, DC: As consumers enter into loan agreements with the best of intentions, loan providers often don’t come to the party with equal good faith. To that end, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in June of last year included car title loans in new proposals aimed at tightening regulations, and preventing loan providers from fle... - Wells Fargo Bank Settles TCPA Lawsuit
Jul-29-16 Atlanta, GA: It's not just small debt collection companies that run afoul of consumers for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Large financial institutions such as Wells Fargo Bank also find themselves on the receiving end of lawsuits alleging they contacted customers without consent, in violation of TCPA and the Fair De... - Overdraft Fees Still a Big Payday for Financial Institutions
Jun-18-16 Washington, DC : Despite rules meant to curb excessive overdraft fees , according to information from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), some consumers are still having a difficult time getting out of overdraft, given the high fees charged for each overdraft transaction. According to the FDIC report (as cited by The Washington Post ; 6/13... - Ninth Circuit Champions Wrongly Denied Disability Claimant
Jun-8-18 Los Angeles, CA In Bowlin v. The Prudential Life Insurance Company of America , the United States District Court for the Central District of California overruled Prudential’s decision to deny long term disability benefits to a worker who gave evidence of many physical and psychological ailments. Bowlin is something of a rarity in long term deni... - “There Are Fees for Everything but Breathing the Air”
Nov-25-15 Washington, DC: Anyone contemplating or having already filed a Credit Union Excessive Overdraft fees lawsuit may be surprised to learn that excessive fees at the hands of credit unions is nothing new: to wit, a story with the headline “Don’t Get Fleeced by Overdraft Fees” was published by Forbes in April 2009. That’s almost se... - Donning and Doffing Lawsuit Nets $9.75 Million Settlement
Sep-16-15 Las Vegas, NV An unpaid overtime lawsuit filed against the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has resulted in a settlement worth $9.75 million. The lawsuit, filed by Darlene Lewis, alleged workers at the Cosmopolitan were not properly paid for all work mandated by the resort casino, including work that amounted to overtime hours. Darlene Lewis filed the lawsui... - PFAS Linked to Obesity
May-26-23 Kingston, RI A University of Rhode Island study has confirmed that increased PFAS content in blood promotes weight gain and makes it harder to keep a lower body weight after weight loss. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS/PFOA) “forever chemicals” have previously been linked to a variety of health conditions, including cancers, l... - Santander TCPA Violations Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Santander Consumer USA recently faced a TCPA class action lawsuit over alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations as well as violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The lawsuit also alleges Santander breached its own contracts by charging improper fees. Santander Consumer USA and TCPA Violations Santander Consumer U... - Approval Given for Two More Force-Placed Insurance Class-Action Settlements
Dec-6-14 Miami, FL Two more forced-place insurance lawsuits have been given final approval by the courts, putting an end to claims that mortgage lenders force-placed insurance with excessive costs on homeowners. Meanwhile, other financial institutions have announced that they’re getting out of force-placed insurance (also known as lender insurance). In... - U.S. Citizens with Assets in Foreign Bank Accounts Seeking Help from Attorneys to Avoid Huge Financial Sanctions
Apr-21-14 St. Louis, Missouri (APRIL 17, 2014) (Press Release) U.S. citizens believing that their money is safe from Internal Revenue Service taxation because it is deposited in “hidden” overseas bank accounts, such as in Switzerland, are dealing with an aggressive U.S. government initiative that may cost them devastating financial penalties and back tax payment... - Customer Says She Unknowingly Paid for Home Warranty Insurance
Apr-1-14 Lynn Haven, FL A bank customer says she was unknowingly paying for home warranty insurance for almost four years, despite not having enrolled with a home warranty company. According to WMBB (3/25/14), Jeane Griffin was asked in January 2010 if she wanted home warranty coverage, but she turned the offer down. In November 2013, she learned she had b... - Federal Judge Gives Nod to $300 Million-Plus Force-Placed Insurance Settlement
Mar-23-14 Miami, FL A tentative $300 million Lender insurance settlement that was announced last September and given preliminary approval a month later has been granted final approval by a federal judge in Florida. The settlement not only provides some compensation for plaintiffs embroiled in the Force-Place insurance battleground, but legal experts agree the se... - Pre-Settlement Funding Provides Financial Stress Relief
Mar-14-14 Two years ago, my life was turned upside down from an auto accident. Now I am almost fully recovered and my lawsuit has finally settled. This would not have been possible without the help of Lawsuit Financial. I was rear-ended by a drunk driver on my way home from work. The impact sent me into oncoming traffic. After sideswiping another vehicle, my car c... - CDC: Preemies and Low Birth Weight Babies Have No Access to Breast Milk at 13 Percent of Neonatal Intensive C
Oct-11-22 Atlanta, GA The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that very low birth weight and premature babies have no access to human donor milk at 13 percent of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the U.S. Breast milk decreases the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, a serious illness resulting from inflammation and death of intestinal tissue that... - Unum: You Win Some, You Lose Some
Mar-26-18 Grand Rapids, MI: While you rarely hear about it, the fact remains that in some cases an insurance company that denies an insured short, or long-term disability benefits sometimes gets it right. To wit, a federal magistrate in Michigan earlier this month determined that Unum Life Insurance Company of America was within its rights to discontinue disability... - Debt Collector Harassment Lawsuits: The Litigation of 2014?
Jan-25-14 Columbus, OH Each year, one or two types of litigation takes center stage as being the most talked about, or most prevalent. In 2014, it seems, that litigation could be debt collector lawsuits ; lawsuits filed against debt collectors who use illegal and unethical tactics to recover debts. While debt collector harassment on the part of unethical debt col... - How Financial Elder Abuse Works
Oct-29-13 Renton, WA Leonard Swenson was a lonely Washington state widower with a house, a truck, $90,000 in savings and a regular income. A trusting man with a limited education, Swenson became a target of devastating emotional and financial abuse . Although the details differ, Swenson’s story is not untypical of the estimated 5 million cases of elder f...