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What’s worse than a payday loan? a fake payday loan.  There is a breed of bottom-feeder collection agencies now that are no longer satisfied collecting on stale credit cards and predatory payday loans, some are now making up debts out of thin air.  I recently received a call from a lady who (three days before […]

While we are on the subject of employee discounts, I am looking into the case of a consumer who believes a car dealer cheated him by telling him he was getting the employee discount but in fact didn’t give him a discount at all.  If this has happened to you, please contact me.  If you […]

I’m looking into complaints that a car dealer used the employee discount number that belonged to an employee of a major manufacturer without that employee’s permission.  If this has happened to you, even if you don’t live in Indiana, please call me.  If necessary, I can refer you to a fellow NACA consumer lawyer in […]

The New York Department of Financial Institutions has settled a range of issues with the leading problem loan mortgage servicer, Ocwen Financial Corp.  The feds and other states would be well advised to look at this settlement as an example of what can be done through civil enforcement. The Ocwen Executive Chairman agreed to resign, […]

Not long ago, I wrote about a company called Driver Solutions, LLC, which was suing students from all over the country in Indiana no matter where they signed their contracts.  I was just made aware of a class action settlement giving relief to these consumers, even if a judgment was entered against them.  The law […]

I’m looking into a complaint that I received from a senior citizen about a company called eMentoring, which looks to be associated with another company called eMillionaire, which in tern appears to be a trade name of a company called ADM Ventures.  The company targets vulnerable people, especially seniors, with a variety of pitches to […]

Medical debt on credit reports is a huge problem in the United States.  Small medical debts cause large unnecessary harm to the credit rating of millions of Americans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just issued a press release about the problems with medical debts on consumer credit reports.  According to the CFPB, over 52% of all […]

I missed it when it first came out, but the United States Supreme Court decided an important employment law case this week, Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Brusk. Full disclosure: I haven’t read this case, and I’m not planning to.  From the write-up in The Daily Kos, I don’t have the stomach to read it. […]

On paper, the Volkswagen Jetta Sportswagen TDI looks like one of the best combinations of power, room, cargo utility and fuel economy, and at a reasonable price, but we are working on a case where the buyer of a Sportswagen has had confounding problems with the Diesel Particulate Filter system.  The problem is complex but, […]

The recent failure to indict the police officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner got me thinking about the grand jury system in Indiana.  In Indiana, a prosecuting attorney can bring any criminal case through the filing of information (a criminal complaint) or through a grand jury indictment.  In Indiana, 5 […]