The National Association of Consumer Advocates is the premier lawyers organization for pursuit of consumer rights. Its website is one of the best resources for consumer law issues. You can view the website by clicking here.
The website has this to say about predatory lending practices:
Predatory Lending Practices
If you believe you know someone who has been a victim of auto fraud or has been deceived into buying a flood, rebuilt wreck or salvage vechicle or who has been cheated on car financing or an extended warranty Lubin Austermuehle DiTommaso may be able to help rectify the problem. We or experienced co-counsel are prepared to file suit in the right case anywhere in the country. For a free consultation on your rights as an employee, contact us today.
Our Auto Fraud, RV Fraud, and Boat Fraud private law firm and our affliated co-counsel handle individual and class action consumer rights, lemon law, and auto fraud lawsuits that government agencies and public interest law firms may decide not pursue. Class action lawsuits our law firm has been involved in or spear-headed have led to substantial awards totalling over a million dollars to organizations including the National Association of Consumer Advocates, the National Consumer Law Center, and local law school consumer programs. Lubin Austermuehle DiTommaso is proud of our achievements in assisting national and local consumer rights organizations obtain the funds needed to ensure that consumers are protected and informed of their rights. By standing up to employee and consumer fraud and rip-offs, and in the right case filing employee or consumer protection lawsuits and class-actions you too can help ensure that consumers’ rights are protected from unscrupulous, illegal or dishonest practices.
Our co-counsel has sucessfully litigated cases against high interest rate small loan outfits for cheating disabled persons by putting them into small loans that they don’t need and then churning the loan so that it eats up much of the victim’s social security payments. We are looking for cases to bring against high interest rate pay day lenders and installment payment lenders who have taken advantage of mentally impaired individuals. We want to put an end to high interest rate lenders harming disabled mentally impaired individuals.
The National Consumer Law Center’s website provides great insight into the predatory practices of high interest rate pay day and installment payment lenders.
To view NCLC’s information sheet on high interest rate loans click here. NCLC’s website describes the loan churning practices of pay day and predatory small lenders as follows:
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