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Quick analysis: Everything was up in June.

CFPB complaints (+16.3%), FDCPA (+2%), FCRA (+18.9%), TCPA (+62.2%!). Of those complaint categories, CFPB complaints and FCRA litigation are also up significantly over June of 2020 (+41.9% and +35.6%, respectively) as well as YTD (+36.3% and +7.4%, respectively).

FDCPA and TCPA, on the other hand, are both slightly down over June 2020 (-1.1% and 2.2%, respectively) as well as YTD (-8.5% and -51.4%, respectively). The YTD TCPA number is colored by some unusual filings early in 2020 and is not necessarily that useful for prognosticating.

In other news, putative class actions represented 24.4% of FDCPA, 52.2% of TCPA and 2.4% of FCRA lawsuits filed last month.

About 38% of all plaintiffs who filed suit last month had filed at least once before.

And finally, Georgia attorney Matthew Thomas Berry took the top spot for representing the most consumers in June (38) and kept the title of the most active consumer attorney of the year with 140 consumers represented so far in 2021

Current Month: Previous Month: Previous
Year:		 Year to Date: Year to
Date Comp:
Jun 01, 2021
Jun 30, 2021		 May 01, 2021
May 31, 2021		 Jun 01, 2020
Jun 30, 2020		 Jan 01, 2021
Jun 30, 2021		 Jan 01, 2020
Jun 30, 2020
CFPB  6293 5411 16.3% 4434 41.9% 34500 25317 36.3%
FDCPA  623 611 2.0% 630 -1.1% 3344 3653 -8.5%
FCRA  503 423 18.9% 371 35.6% 2760 2569 7.4%
TCPA  180 111 62.2% 184 -2.2% 1027 2111 -51.4%

 

Complaint Statistics:

6293 consumers filed CFPB complaints, and about 1129 consumers filed lawsuits under consumer statutes from Jun 01, 2021 to Jun 30, 2021.

  • 6293 CFPB Complaints
  • 623 FDCPA, 152 Class Action (24.4%)
  • 180 TCPA, 94 Class Action (52.2%)
  • 503 FCRA, 12 Class Action (2.4%)

Litigation Summary (scroll down for CFPB data):

  • Of those cases, there were about 1129 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
  • Of those plaintiffs, about 426, or (38%), had sued under consumer statutes before.
  • Combined, those plaintiffs have filed about 2934 lawsuits since 2001
  • Actions were filed in 154 different US District Court branches.
  • About 691 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

  • 89 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
  • 63 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
  • 60 Lawsuits: Florida Middle District Court – Tampa
  • 57 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
  • 36 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Central Islip
  • 33 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn
  • 31 Lawsuits: Nevada District Court – Las Vegas
  • 28 Lawsuits: New York Southern District Court – Foley Square
  • 26 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
  • 26 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Fort Lauderdale

The most active consumer attorneys were:

  • Representing 38 Consumers: MATTHEW THOMAS BERRY
  • Representing 29 Consumers: TODD M FRIEDMAN
  • Representing 28 Consumers: ALEJANDRO EMMANUEL FIGUEROA
  • Representing 24 Consumers: THOMAS EDWARD WHEELER
  • Representing 23 Consumers: ADRIAN ROBERT BACON
  • Representing 23 Consumers: DAVID M BARSHAY
  • Representing 21 Consumers: JOSEPH SCOTT DAVIDSON
  • Representing 17 Consumers: EDWARD Y KROUB
  • Representing 17 Consumers: NATHAN CHARLES VOLHEIM
  • Representing 15 Consumers: GEORGE HAINES

Statistics Year to Date:
6426 total lawsuits for 2021, including:

  • 3344 FDCPA
  • 2760 FCRA
  • 1027 TCPA

Number of Unique Plaintiffs for 2021: 6115 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

  • Representing 140 Consumers: MATTHEW THOMAS BERRY
  • Representing 116 Consumers: DAVID M BARSHAY
  • Representing 112 Consumers: TODD M FRIEDMAN
  • Representing 94 Consumers: YOSEF STEINMETZ
  • Representing 92 Consumers: CRAIG B SANDERS
  • Representing 92 Consumers: ADRIAN ROBERT BACON
  • Representing 90 Consumers: ALEJANDRO EMMANUEL FIGUEROA
  • Representing 88 Consumers: AMY LYNN BENNECOFF GINSBURG
  • Representing 87 Consumers: NATHAN CHARLES VOLHEIM
  • Representing 74 Consumers: DAVID W HEMMINGER

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CFPB Complaint Statistics:

There were 6293 complaints filed against debt collectors from Jun 01, 2021 to Jun 30, 2021.

Total number of debt collectors complained about: 820

The types of debt behind the complaints were:

  • 1919 Credit card debt (30%)
  • 1464 Other debt (23%)
  • 1344 I do not know (21%)
  • 898 Medical debt (14%)
  • 330 Auto debt (5%)
  • 172 Payday loan debt (3%)
  • 83 Mortgage debt (1%)
  • 49 Private student loan debt (1%)
  • 34 Federal student loan debt (1%)

Here is a breakdown of complaints:

  • 3646 Attempts to collect debt not owed (58%)
  • 1424 Written notification about debt (23%)
  • 415 Took or threatened to take negative or legal action (7%)
  • 365 False statements or representation (6%)
  • 358 Communication tactics (6%)
  • 85 Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly (1%)

The top five subissues were:

  • 1790 Debt is not yours (28%)
  • 1289 Debt was result of identity theft (20%)
  • 1025 Didnt receive enough information to verify debt (16%)
  • 449 Debt was paid (7%)
  • 353 Didnt receive notice of right to dispute (6%)

The top states complaints were filed from are:

  • 799 Complaints: CA
  • 683 Complaints: FL
  • 680 Complaints: TX
  • 642 Complaints: GA
  • 361 Complaints: NY
  • 223 Complaints: PA
  • 199 Complaints: NC
  • 195 Complaints: OH
  • 180 Complaints: VA
  • 179 Complaints: IL

The status of the month’s complaints are as follows:

  • 4997 Closed with explanation (79%)
  • 662 In progress (11%)
  • 520 Closed with non-monetary relief (8%)
  • 87 Untimely response (1%)
  • 27 Closed with monetary relief (0%)

This includes 6131 (97%) timely responses to complaints, and 162 (3%) untimely responses.

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API Access


We offer two powerful APIs to businesses that communicate with consumers:

  • The primary Litigious Consumer Scrub uses a combination of name, geography (and optionally SSN) to identify consumers who have filed lawsuits in the past.
  • The Litigious Consumer Phone Scrub pulls every phone number from our proprietary database of litigants and runs your phones against ours.

These APIs allow you to check your data against our database on the fly. Clients love using this to handle risk management without missing a beat in their daily workflow.

Workers Comp Scrub


Workers Comp-inspired FDCPA lawsuits are growing aggressively, particularly in Florida. Only WebRecon can tell you who in your database may have a Florida Worker’s Comp case filed that could trigger litigation against you.

You can’t stop 100% of all lawsuits, but if you collect medical in Florida and you don’t have a process in place to show the court that you have a way to check every file against the Workers Comp database, then you have lost the case before it even begins.

Knock these suits out of the park with the Workers Comp Scrub.

Our Monthly Client Newsletter with The Litigant Hotsheet


Anyone can get our guest newsletter, but only clients get the version with the Litigant Hotsheet –  identifying the most active consumer Plaintiffs filing suit in jurisdictions around the country each month. Grab a coffee, shut your door and open your database to make sure you are doing all you can to stay safe.

Individual Vendor Consumer Complaint Search


Just like Vendor Monitoring, but without the monitoring. Search any business’s history of consumer complaints (Litigation, CFPB, BBB, State AG) with the click of a button! Great for on-the-fly gut checks of the companies you do business with.

Vendor Monitoring


Through vicarious liability, you can be held accountable for the bad behavior of your vendors. If they abuse consumers, for all intents and purposes, so do you. This is a big freakin’ deal!

But fear not, friend. WebRecon can track consumer litigation, CFPB, BBB and State AG Office complaints against the companies you do business with.

When a new complaint of any kind is filed against any of the companies you are monitoring, we’ll automatically push a report out to you with all of the publicly available details so you can react accordingly and if necessary, protect your interests.

The Litigious Consumer Phone Scrub


Would you knowingly dial a number attached to a consumer with a history of litigation? Of course not.

But thousands of companies do just that, every single day. If you’d like to know who they are, simply review the court dockets. They are the ones getting sued the most.

Sure, you can stop dialing consumers. But your marketing and operations teams might not be too excited about that plan.

Another idea? Identify the consumers most likely to sue you, based on previous litigation histories, and just don’t call them.

Identify high-risk phones quickly & easily, before you expose yourself to unnecessary risk.

Litigation Context Search


This is really cool.

Our primary search engine is really designed to search for parties to litigation. Need to know more about a consumer plaintiff? That’s easy. Defendant? Check. Lawyer? No problem.

But if you need to find all 1099C lawsuits filed in July 2020… not so much.

Which is why we developed the Context Search. We have pulled out and indexed the full text from over 140k consumer lawsuits and made them available to you in a search engine, with more than 1000 new lawsuits added each month. Use it to search the text of filed litigation so you can easily identify those hard-to-define trends and cases worth following.

Individual Search Engine


Instantly and easily search our proprietary database for any lawsuit participant – Plaintiff, Defendant or Attorney.

In the results, we’ll show you the full consumer litigation history of any participant, including the “docket data” (who, what, why, where, when) and – in many cases – we can even provide a copy of their actual filed lawsuits.

You can also search by phone, date range, federal/state, class action, court, statute, etc. We offer a ton of flexibility to get you the exact search result you are looking for.

The Litigant Alert Ongoing Monitoring Process


Just like our one-time batch process, but without the whole “one time” thing.

When one of your consumers files new litigation against anyone in the future, you should be the first to know. Our monitoring service can make that happen.

WebRecon can monitor your entire database (or any segment of it) for future instances of consumer litigation filed by the very consumers you are working with, right now!

It is simple to add new consumers to the watchlist, remove inactive accounts, download full reports, etc.

Best of all, we only charge you for the volume of your monitoring database – not the frequency of the searches. Search daily, weekly, every Tuesday and Friday, the 15th of each month, whatever – it is totally up to you! You won’t pay a penny more.

The Litigant Alert One-Time Batch Process


This is our flagship service. Find out why hundreds of companies won’t contact any consumers before running them through WebRecon’s Litigant Alert.

This process identifies consumers with a history of litigation quickly & easily. If they have ever filed lawsuits under FDCPA, TCPA, FCRA or similar statutes, you’ll find out here. 

WebRecon’s proprietary database is simply the most comprehensive collection of dangerous consumer litigation data in existence. 

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