Yves Smith: The Top 12 Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement
This settlement is yet another demonstration of who wields power in America, and it isn't you and me. It's bad enough to see these negotiations come to their predictable, sorry outcome. It adds insult to injury to see some try to depict it as a win for long suffering, still abused homeowners.
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Settlement may bring relief to stressed homeowners
Clark County homeowners who are sinking under a high mortgage payment or owe more for their house than it’s worth could be thrown a lifeline as part of a $25 billion national settlement.
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Paralyzed woman, firm reach settlement
An exercise equipment manufacturer has agreed to pay $19.5 million to a Cheektowaga woman paralyzed while using one of its machines. It is the largest part of a $26 million total settlement for 31-year-old Natalie M. Barnhard.
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Magnet Toy Class Action Settlement
NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 15, 2011, the Honorable Susan D. Wigenton, U.S.D.J., granted final approval of a class action settlement in the lawsuit Chris Doering, et al. v. MEGA ...
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Mortgage Settlement Talks Look Like Tobacco II
Lacking in all the litigation over foreclosure processing services are borrowers who weren't actually in default.
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NH family receives settlement in brain injury case
A judge has approved a $95,000 settlement for a New Hampshire couple whose 7-year-old son suffered a brain injury when he fell from a piece of playground equipment at a mall.
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Most TN homebuyers won't get a share of mortgage settlement
While Tennessee consumers stand to get about $146 million from a $25 billion settlement announced Thursday between the government and the nation's top five mortgage-loan servicers, the benefits at street level may be limited.
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Lawyer Kwasnik facing new charges
He's accused of taking $324,000 from a personal injury settlement secured by his former law partner.
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Foreclosure settlement may be too late for Holland family
Under the plan, one million homeowners who are "underwater" -- or owe more on ... Governor Rick Snyder says his plan is a financial boost to public schools, but ...
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$19.5M asbestos settlement proposed by W.R. Grace
A $19.5 million settlement has been proposed for Montana asbestos victims in the W.R. Grace and Co. bankruptcy case.The Daily Inter Lake reported (http://bit.ly/ymUAUP) Wednesday that the money would fund ...
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