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Consumer and Labor Groups Urge Experian to Offer Free Security Freezes to T-Mobile Customers to Help Prevent Id Theft
Consumer and Labor Groups Urge Experian to Offer Free Security Freezes to T-Mobile Customers to Help Prevent Id Theft (BOSTON) Today, in response to the theft from Experian of the personal data of 15 million T-Mobile customers, consumer and labor groups sent a letter...
T-Mobile customers’ info breached after Experian hack
T-Mobile customers' info breached after Experian hack Anyone who applied for a regular T-Mobile USA postpaid plan between Sept. 1, 2013 and Sept. 16, 2015 might be affected. T-Mobile used Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus, to conduct credit checks on its...
Volkswagen chief faces grilling by board over diesel scandal
Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn faces a reckoning with his board on Wednesday, summoned to explain the falsification of U.S. emissions tests... Click here to read more
Woman sues debt collector, wins nearly $83 million
This is what can happen when debt collector companies, such as Portfolio Recovery, try and collect a debt against the wrong person while violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Even though this individual didn’t owe the debt and was harassed for...
Student loan borrowers have reason for hope
Student loan debt is now the largest debt burden owed in the country by Americans. This has been a hardship on millions of families for years. For people who wanted to get out from under the large amounts, there has been very few options available as its practically...
Telemarketer Harassment Law Breakdown
Telemarketer Harassment Law Breakdown The Law Office of The Law Office of Earl. P. Underwood, LLC has put together an in-depth breakdown on the Telephone Communication Privacy Act (TCPA). This law can be complicated. We breakdown the law in simple to understand terms....
Bank of America will have to pay for Robocalls
Bank of America will need to pay more than $1 million to a Florida couple for five years of continuously robocalling them despite written and verbal requests to stop, Consumerist reported on Thursday. When the housing bubble burst, the Tampa, Florida-area...
BANK OF AMERICA SETTLES MORTGAGE INVESTIGATIONS
After months of stalling, digging in and not taking the government seriously on its threats, it appears Bank of America (BOA) is ready to pay for its sale of toxic mortgage securities prior to the financial crisis that hit the United States starting in 2008. The...
New Mortgage Rules help families.
Beginning in January 2014, new CFPB rules will provide homeowners and consumers shopping for a home mortgage new rights and greater protections from harmful practices. These rules will help eliminate or reduce the run around and painful surprises that have hurt so...
Borrower vs. Mortgage Lender – Over $210,000.00 settlement
In April 2013, our firm reached another confidential settlement agreement with a mortgage lender on a wrongful foreclosure claim. After a divorce, our client asked for a modification with her mortgage lender. She was current on her mortgage payments when she...
Borrower vs. Mortgage Lender – Over $150,000.00 settlement
In January 2013, our firm reached another confidential settlement agreement with a mortgage lender on a wrongful foreclosure claim. Our client was current on her mortgage payments when her loan was transferred to a new lender. The new lender needed proof of her...
Borrower vs. Mortgage Lender – Over $250,000.00 Settlement
In November 2012, our firm reached a confidential settlement agreement with a mortgage lender on a wrongful foreclosure claim. A few years back, our client was in-between jobs and needed some assistance from her mortgage company until her income picked back up. She...
Borrowers vs. Mortgage Lender – Over $300,000.00 Settlement
In October 2012, our firm reached a confidential settlement agreement with one of the larger mortgage lenders in the country on a wrongful foreclosure claim. Our clients, after years of dealing with this mortgage company, were able to place this matter behind them....
McNally vs. Leisure Tyme RV – $83,000
James McNally vs. Leisure Tyme Mobile County Circuit Court In June 2012, an arbitrator awarded our client, Jim McNally almost $83,000.00 for emotional distress and mental anguish damages that resulted from a breach of contract by an RV dealership located on the gulf...
Bankruptcy Debtor vs. Debt Collector – $7,000.00
United States District Court Southern District of Alabama We represented a debtor in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. Several weeks after she filed her petition, a debt collector withdrew funds out of her personal checking account in the amounts of $400, $344 and $169 for a...
What is Wrongful Foreclosure?
When a mortgage company starts foreclosure proceedings when it has no legal right to so, or when it fails to comply with the legal requirements for foreclosing, such as providing proper notice to the borrower, it has committed wrongful foreclosure. When this happens,...
What Happens When a Mortgage Company Wrongfully Forecloses
Today, numerous mortgage companies such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi or Chase often make mistakes. It is not unusual for mortgage companies to lose payments or fail to properly apply payments, or for some other reason falsely accuse the borrower of defaulting...
Tyler vs. The Mortgage Outlet, Inc. – $900,000.00
United States District Court for Southern District of Alabama Case 1:08-cv-00007-B This was a class action case filed on behalf of 4500 class members against the defendant, a home loan refinancing company for Truth in Lending Act (TILA) violations. The Defendant in...
Farley vs. Residential Funding, et al. – $10,000,000.00
United States District Court for Northern District of Alabama Case 7:06-cv-01864-KOB This was a class action case filed on behalf of almost 18,000 class members against the Defendants, mortgage lenders, for Truth in Lending Act (TILA) violations. The Defendants...