Subscribe in iTunes by Carol Thompson Proponents say arbitration is a cheaper alternative to court. Opponents say arbitration takes away their rights. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leans with the opponents. Yesterday, the agency director Richard...
by Carol Thompson While the Arbitration Fairness Act (H.R. 1844, S. 878) sits idly in Washington, over a dozen state attorney general’s are appealing for change. Late last year 16 state attorney generals wrote to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
by Carol Thompson Patricia Sullivan spent the final months of her life harassed by debt collectors. The retired 77 year old had remarried, twenty years after the death of her first husband. Her second marriage ended only a year later when her husband...
