FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, February 16-28, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Grand Rapids, MI (March 9, 2010) – The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, February 16-28, 2010

There were about 463 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the second half of February. Here is an approximate breakdown:

 384 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (vs. 238 same period 2009, 221 same period 2008)
 49 Fair Credit Reporting Act (vs. 31 same period 2009, 39 same period 2008)
 0 Telephone Consumer Protection Act (vs. 2 same period 2009, 0 same period 2008)
 16 Truth In Lending Act
 1 Credit Repair Organizations Act
 2 Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
 3 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
 1 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
 1 Fair Housing Act
 1 Higher Education Opportunity Act
 1 Homeowners Loan Act
 4 State of California Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Maryland Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Oregon Consumer Statutes
 4 State of Texas Consumer Statutes
 2 State of West Virginia Consumer Statutes
 9 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act

Summary:
 Of those cases, there were about 502 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
 Of those plaintiffs, about 258 had sued under consumer statutes before.
 Combined, those 258 plaintiffs have filed about 947 lawsuits since 2001
 Actions were filed in 105 different US District Court branches.
 About 471 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:
 36 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
 34 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
 21 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
 16 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
 16 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
 15 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
 14 Lawsuits: New York Western District Court – Buffalo
 12 Lawsuits: Michigan Eastern District Court – Detroit
 12 Lawsuits: California Northern District Court – San Francisco
 10 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Central Islip

The most active consumer attorneys were:
 Representing 16 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
 Representing 14 Consumers: George Thomas Martin, III
 Representing 14 Consumers: Matthew William Kiverts
 Representing 14 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
 Representing 13 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 13 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
 Representing 12 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
 Representing 11 Consumers: David J. Philipps
 Representing 10 Consumers: Diana P. Larson
 Representing 9 Consumers: Lara Ruth Shapiro

Statistics Year to Date:

1742 total lawsuits for 2010, including:
 1470 FDCPA (vs. 1120 same period 2009, 824 same period 2008)
 164 FCRA (vs. 186 same period 2009, 189 same period 2008)
 7 TCPA (vs. 3 same period 2009, 5 same period 2008)
 69 TILA (Truth in Lending Act)

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 1792 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:
 Representing 75 Consumers: Matthew William Kiverts
 Representing 66 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 49 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
 Representing 48 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
 Representing 46 Consumers: David Michael Larson

About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.

The FDCPA Litigant Alert Batch up to one million accounts per hour through our massive litigant database
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For more information, please contact:
Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327