Damage awards for wrongful foreclosure are rising across the country. In New Mexico a judge issued a $3.2 million judgment (including $2.7 million in punitive damages) against Wells Fargo for foreclosing on a man’s home after his death even though he had an insurance policy through the bank that paid the remaining balance on his […]

Tags: compensatory damages, contingency fee, discovery, FDIC, foreclosure, insurance, loss sharing, mortgage insurance, New Mexico, Pleading, punitive damages, Wells Fargo
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Among the many insurance companies that paid off loans or assets based on loans, MGIC. Off 2400 loans a month of January alone, which appears to be virtually all residential mortgages. Press the reason that nobody is paying any attention to this is that normally the insurer acquires the claim through a legal process called […]

Tags: credit default swaps, mortgage insurance, Servicer advances
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In my newly formed practice and thanks to the diligent work of my partners at GGKW, we have discovered something that is over the top even by current standards in the current mortgage mess, to wit: servicers, banks and other entities are receiving complete payoffs of the mortgage upon the death of the insured homeowner […]

Tags: accidental death insurance, damages, mortgage bond insurance, mortgage insurance, PMI, Sanctions, Wells Fargo
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Tags: 9th Amendment, advancing premiums, Benjamin Lawsky, billing and collections, Center for Economic Justice, constitution, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, corruption of title, cost of insurance, deceptive lending, Department of financial Services, fake foreclosures, Fannie MAe, Force Placed Insurance, foreclosure, foreclosure cliff, FORECLOSURE SETTLEMENT, foreclosures, fraudulent lending, Freddie Mac, Housing crisis, housing market, insurance policies, insurance subsidiary, mortgage insurance, mortgage servicers, predatory lending, short sales, strangers foreclosing
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Lawsuits like this one have been on the rise as ever more mortgages default. It is no secret that the housing market boom fostered poorly underwritten mortgages, in which it was common that a borrower’s income was inflated or never documented. Insurers are denying the claims on many loans, asserting they are not liable to […]

Tags: Bank of America, countrywide, fraud, insurance, insurance claims, loans, MGIC Investment Corp., mortgage insurance, mortgage underwriting, New York, Old Republic International Corp., rescission, Sara Lepro, Supreme Court, TILA
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, securities fraud |