Many articles are now appearing pointing out that Georgia Representative Loudermilk proposed a bill to gut the regulations applicable to Equifax (which is headquartered in Georgia) just before the data
David Lazarus, a business reporter for the L.A. Times, wrote an article stating that consumers are just now becoming aware of the forced arbitration issue because of the Equifax attempt
Stephen Colbert explains the Equifax bungle on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Congress is considering legislation that would ban class actions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Assistant Managers for Petco Animal Supplies Inc. have reached an $8 million settlement of a wage-and-hour class action alleging it failed to pay assistant store managers for overtime.
Stoll Berne attorneys, Steve Larson and Josh Ross, spoke at the Oregon State Bar Consumer Law Section CLE on October 2, 2017.
On September 14, 2017, a Federal District Court Judge in Portland approved a $2.3 million settlement of a class action brought against a debt collection firm alleged to have collected more money from debtors than it was legally entitled to collect.
A recent article in the Huffington Post explains why the CFPB Rule banning forced arbitration is so important. Here is the link.
A shareholder in Zillow Group Inc. has filed a class action against the company alleging that the company should have told investors about its practices, which recently led to an
A $19 million settlement on behalf of former Rentrak Corporation shareholders was approved by the Multnomah County Court on September 12, 2017.
An interesting article in the American Banker Magazine says that the hoopla surrounding the Equifax data breach, including Equifax’s efforts to force consumers into arbitration after the data breach, may
A new report issued by Level Playing Field shows that only 5 consumers have filed arbitrations against Equifax since 2009.
An article in Forbes magazine says that Equifax’s attempt to force consumers into mandatory arbitration after their latest data breach caused such a fury that Equifax had to change its
Richard Cordray has penned an Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled “Let Consumers Sue Companies.”
The Ninth Circuit found that the Plaintiff that filed a complaint against Spokeo alleging that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by reporting inaccurate information about him had alleged
The Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) has selected Damages as the winner of its ACLEA’s Best Award of Outstanding Achievement in Publications at its annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in
A brief remark from SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar during a July 17, 2017, Q&A suggests that he believes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission might soon allow companies to introduce mandatory arbitration
Providence Health Plan was recently fined by Oregon’s insurance regulator for violations uncovered in the autism litigation suit brought by Stoll Berne.
According to a complaint filed in California, the Walt Disney Co. secretly collects personal information on some of its youngest customers and shares that data illegally with advertisers without parental
A class action has been filed against Wells Fargo alleging that its Merchant Services misleads customers and charged excessive fees for its credit- and debit-card-processing services.
