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All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 3, Issue 9

Mortgage Lenders are Starting to Go Broke Amid Rate Spike and US Mortgage Lenders are Starting to Go Bankrupt — How This One Factor Could be Triggering the Worst Surge of Failures Since 2008 "Last year, two-thirds of the...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 23

Millions of Consumers have Cut Their Debts, So Why are Financial Experts Sounding Alarm - "And with stimulus payments a thing of the past and other unusual financial stabilization programs unwinding, the alerts are going...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 22

What to Expect as Education Department Gets Ready to Resume Student Loan Payments - "After nearly two years of pausing student loan bills, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to figure out how to start collecting...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 21

Bankruptcies Trending Down in West Virginia, but for How Long? "Then from June 2020 to June 2021, in the heart of the pandemic, those numbers dropped even more." Why this is important: From 2016 to 2019, there was an...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 17

Biden Makes It Easier for Student Loan Borrowers to Get a Mortgage - "The new rule supported by the Biden administration proposed that FHA lenders drop the requirement to calculate student loan payments at 1%." Why this is...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 16

President Biden Extends Pause on Student Loan Payments to 2022 - "Student loan payments have been paused since Congress passed the CARES Act in March of last year but were due to resume in September." Why this is...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 9

Consumer Watchdog Group Issues Policy to Strengthen National Eviction Moratorium - "Since the eviction moratorium has been in effect, housing advocates and renters have said a lack of enforcement has led to landlords...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 2 - January 2021

Biden to Pick Rohit Chopra to Lead Consumer-Finance Agency - "Rohit Chopra is the former student-loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau." Why this is important: As an assistant director of the CFPB,...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 10, November 2020

COVID-19, the CARES Act and the Impact on Mortgage Forbearance - In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government passed the CARES Act, which provides a number of protections to homeowners unable to pay...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 8, October 2020

Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act - What You Need to Know - Between the Civil War and 1940, the United States periodically had legislation that prevented lawsuits against soldiers and sailors during times of conflict. Then,...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 7, October 2020

Is a Cap on Payday Loan Rates About Protecting the Poor or Eliminating a Service? "Industry representatives say the proposed cap would drive most, if not all, payday lenders out of business and leave their customers...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 6, September 2020

Morrisey, Other AGs Reach $330 Million Agreement with Student Loan Company - "West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and 47 other attorneys general have reached a $330 million, multistate agreement with a student...more

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 5, September 2020

Three Important Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing the Delivery of Consumer Financial Services - The world continues to come to grips with the daily changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools contemplate...more

What Bank Litigators Want Banks to Know About the State of Consumer Protection Litigation in W.Va.

For decades, consumer protection has led to copious amounts of litigation in West Virginia. In the past several years, the types of lawsuits filed under the debt collection provisions of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and...more

2018 West Virginia Legislative Session, the WVCCPA and the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing Act

The 2018 West Virginia legislative session was a busy one regarding consumer finance law. Legislators focused on the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act and the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing Act. The West...more

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