FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Grand Rapids, MI (April 7, 2010) – The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.
FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, Mar 16-31, 2010
There were about 545 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the second half of March. Here is an approximate breakdown:
- 476 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- 42 Fair Credit Reporting Act
- 17 Truth In Lending Act
- 2 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- 2 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
- 1 Higher Education Opportunity Act
- 1 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
- 2 Internal Revenue Code
- 1 Personal Injury
- 2 State of California Consumer Statutes
- 1 State of Florida Consumer Statutes
- 1 State of Maryland Consumer Statutes
- 1 State of New York Consumer Statutes
- 1 State of Ohio Consumer Statutes
- 1 State of Vermont Consumer Statutes
- 2 State of West Virginia Consumer Statutes
- 3 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
Summary:
- Of those cases, there were about 588 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
- Of those plaintiffs, about 172 had sued under consumer statutes before.
- Combined, those 172 plaintiffs have filed about 1045 lawsuits since 2001
- Actions were filed in 111 different US District Court branches.
- About 525 different collection firms and creditors were sued.
The top courts where lawsuits were filed:
- 36 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
- 30 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
- 28 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
- 25 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
- 25 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
- 24 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
- 20 Lawsuits: New York Western District Court – Buffalo
- 15 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn
- 13 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Central Islip
- 12 Lawsuits: California Northern District Court – San Francisco
The most active consumer attorneys were:
- Representing 23 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
- Representing 21 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
- Representing 20 Consumers: David Michael Larson
- Representing 17 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
- Representing 17 Consumers: James D. Pacitti
- Representing 17 Consumers: James Marvin Feagle
- Representing 16 Consumers: Craig Thor Kimmel
- Representing 15 Consumers: Adam Jon Fishbein
- Representing 15 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
- Representing 13 Consumers: Jon N. Robbins
Statistics Year to Date:
2816 total lawsuits for 2010, including:
- 2403 FDCPA
- 255 FCRA
- 8 TCPA
- 101 TILA (Truth in Lending Act)
Number of unique Plaintiffs: 2869 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)
The most active consumer attorneys of the year:
- Representing 92 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
- Representing 90 Consumers: Matthew William Kiverts
- Representing 90 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
- Representing 83 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
- Representing 80 Consumers: David Michael Larson
About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.
The FDCPA Litigant Alert | Batch up to one million accounts per hour through our massive litigant database
The ‘Litigant Exchange’ | Provide your state & local lawsuit data in exchange for access to others’ lawsuit data
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The ‘Litigant Hotsheet’ | A quick snapshot of the most active litigious consumers sent twice monthly
For more information, please contact:
Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327
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