FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, June 1-15, 2010

Grand Rapids, MI – The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC: FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, June 1-15, 2010.

There were about 503 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the first half of June.

Here is an approximate breakdown:

• 419 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• 47 Fair Credit Reporting Act
• 5 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
• 17 Truth In Lending Act
• 2 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
• 3 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
• 1 Federal Trade Commission Act
• 2 Homeowners Loan Act
• 2 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
• 5 State of California Consumer Statutes
• 1 State of Florida Consumer Statutes
• 2 State of Illinois Consumer Statutes
• 1 State of Maryland Consumer Statutes
• 1 State of Michigan Consumer Statutes
• 1 State of North Carolina Consumer Statutes
• 2 State of West Virginia Consumer Statutes
• 6 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• 1 Right to Financial Privacy Act
• 1 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Summary:

Of those cases, there were about 577 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)
Of those plaintiffs, about 182 had sued under consumer statutes before
Combined, those 182 plaintiffs have filed about 1042 lawsuits since 2001
Actions were filed in 106 different US District Court branches
About 541 different collection firms and creditors were sued

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

• 35 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
• 25 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
• 24 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
• 20 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
• 19 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Fort Lauderdale
• 16 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
• 16 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
• 16 Lawsuits: Connecticut District Court – New Haven
• 13 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn
• 13 Lawsuits: Maryland District Court – Baltimore

The most active consumer attorneys were:

• Representing 25 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
• Representing 21 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough
• Representing 15 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
• Representing 14 Consumers: Mark H. Rephen
• Representing 12 Consumers: David Michael Larson
• Representing 12 Consumers: Forrest E. Mays
• Representing 11 Consumers: Daniel S. Blinn
• Representing 10 Consumers: David M. Marco
• Representing 10 Consumers: Lara Ruth Shapiro
• Representing 10 Consumers: Jody B. Burton

Statistics Year to Date: 5306 total lawsuits for 2010, including:

• 4518 FDCPA
• 466 FCRA
• 21 TCPA
• 189 TILA (Truth in Lending Act)

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 5234 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

• Representing 172 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
• Representing 159 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
• Representing 132 Consumers: David Michael Larson
• Representing 125 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
• Representing 115 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman

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.

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