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8 Jun 2010, 1:47 pm
Outside the privacy area, Leibowitz also described the FTC’s continuing efforts to (1) protect financially-strapped consumers; (2) continue enforcement of the Do Not Call Registry; (3) protect children through litigation under the Children’s Privacy Protect Act; (4) promote competition by challenging anti-competitive health care mergers and stopping pay-for-delay drug patent settlements; and (5) protect competition in the technology,… [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 10:04 am
The Comer class action suit was filed by Gulf Coast residents seeking financial damages from more than two dozen oil and coal companies for the local havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, which the plaintiffs argued was exacerbated by the effects of global warming. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 9:54 am
The Comer class action suit was filed by Gulf Coast residents seeking financial damages from more than two dozen oil and coal companies for the local havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, which the plaintiffs argued was exacerbated by the effects of global warming. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 8:59 am
As part of the Federal Reserve, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be charged with regulating lenders and protecting consumers from predatory lending. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 7:13 am
(Todd Zywicki) From the beginning of the financial reg reform debate I’ve supported the idea of a more coherent and integrated institutional approach to consumer financial protection. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 6:42 am
With a financial reform billpassed in both the Senate and the House, it seems that a Consumer Financial Protection Agency is going to become a reality. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 12:48 pm
CONSUMER PROTECTION 2010 COURSE COVERAGE QUESTIONNAIRE If you have taught Consumer Protection within the last five years or plan to teach it in the near future and know what you plan to cover, please answer this survey for the “Hot Topics” panel. [read post]
28 May 2010, 6:42 pm
Madigan today reported that 31,264 consumers filed complaints with her Consumer Protection Division last year. [read post]
28 May 2010, 9:50 am
by Jeff Sovern Last week at the University of Houston's Teaching Consumer Law Conference (presided over by fellow-blogger Richard Alderman) I spoke about the House and Senate Consumer Financial Protection Agency (or Bureau) bills and their differences and similarities. [read post]
27 May 2010, 11:47 am
I should note this change was so anti-consumer that the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation later issued an order prohibiting auto insurance companies, including Farm Bureau, from shortening the statute of limitations from three years to one year for UIM coverage. [read post]
24 May 2010, 6:52 pm
The new consumer-protection bureau should help to close the gap between well-regulated banks and poorly regulated mortgage brokers and finance companies, which led the race to the bottom in loan-underwriting standards. [read post]
24 May 2010, 10:24 am
As discussed in this briefing paper, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (S 3217, the Senate version of H.R. 4173) would institute far-reaching reforms, including the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau housed within the Federal Reserve Board and new federal government power to wind down large, failing financial institutions.The bill would establish a nine-member Financial Services Oversight… [read post]
24 May 2010, 7:53 am
Some of the key measures include, but are not limited to:• A major overhaul in the regulation of banks and financial firms which were previously deemed “too big to fail,” including creating more powers for regulators to break up financial firms that are so large that they pose a threat to the stability of the entire financial system;• Limiting the scope of banks’ investment activities by in part banning banks from trading on their own accounts… [read post]
24 May 2010, 2:14 am
Yet another measure specifies streamlined non-admitted insurance procedures for certain commercial insurance buyers (Section 525) There are many other measures of more general interest in the massive Senate bill, including "improvements" to the regulation of rating agencies (Section 931 et seq.); increased disclosure requirements in connection with municipal securities (Section 975 et seq.); the creation of a Bureau of Consumer Financial… [read post]
22 May 2010, 8:07 am
Significantly, this Senate version of financial regulation calls for a new, quasi-independent Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection within the Federal Reserve. [read post]
21 May 2010, 7:25 pm
Section 1057 prohibits retaliation against an employee who has engaged in any of the following protected acts: • Provided, caused to be provided, or is about to provide or cause to be provided, to an employer, the newly created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau), or any other government authority or law enforcement agency, information that the employee reasonably believes relates to any violation of any provision of Title… [read post]
21 May 2010, 2:04 pm
For example, the Senate version of the Bureau of Consumer Protection has only the loosest definition of what might constitute an “abusive” loan product–what might be swept under that heading is largely undefined (the term itself as it is used here seems to be novel). [read post]
21 May 2010, 12:31 pm
Now we'll have a new consumer watchdog, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that is focused on weeding out predatory lending and making sure that corporate greed doesn't get out of control again.Still, the car dealers haven't given up. [read post]
21 May 2010, 7:18 am
We can’t use a model that sets our financial interests in opposition to our clients’ anymore. [read post]
21 May 2010, 6:54 am
Read this article for more on the controversial amendment to exempt auto dealers from oversight by the consumer financial protection bureau created by the bill. [read post]
