FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, September 1-15

Grand Rapids, Mich. – FDCPA Lawsuit Statistics. This service is provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

There were about 424 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the first half of September (down a bit due to the Labor Day holiday).

Here is an approximate breakdown:

• 346 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• 39 Fair Credit Reporting Act
•  2 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
• 14 Truth In Lending Act
• 1 Consumer Legal Remedies Act
• 1 Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
• 1 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
• 1 Employee Retirement Income Security Act
• 4 Federal Trade Commission Act
• 1 Home Affordable Modification Program
• 1 Home Affordable Refinance Program
• 1 Missouri Merchandising Practices Act
• 6 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• 1 Securities Exchange Act
• 1 Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act
• 6 Unfair Business Practices
• 3 Unjust Enrichment
• 2 West Virginia Consumer Credit & Protection Act

Of those cases, there were about 430 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).

• Of those plaintiffs, about 82 had sued under consumer statutes before.
• Combined, those 82 plaintiffs have filed about 555 lawsuits since 2001

 Actions were filed in 101 different US District Court branches.

About 446 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

• 40 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
• 32 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Los Angeles
• 17 Lawsuits: Connecticut District Court – New Haven
• 16 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
• 14 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
• 13 Lawsuits: California Southern District Court – San Diego
• 13 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Fort Lauderdale
• 12 Lawsuits: Florida Middle District Court – Tampa
• 12 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
• 11 Lawsuits: New York Western District Court – Buffalo

 
The most active consumer attorneys were:

• Representing 18 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough
• Representing 18 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
• Representing 17 Consumers: Michael S Agruss
• Representing 13 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
• Representing 13 Consumers: Daniel A. Edelman
• Representing 10 Consumers: Robert T. Healey, Jr.
• Representing 10 Consumers: James Marvin Feagle
• Representing 8 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
• Representing 8 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
• Representing 8 Consumers: George Thomas Martin, III

Statistics Year to Date

6654 total lawsuits for 2009:

• 5488 FDCPA
• 875 FCRA
• 13 TCPA

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 6607 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

• Representing 343 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
• Representing 222 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
• Representing 176 Consumers: Kenneth R. Hiller
• Representing 169 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
• Representing 145 Consumers: Daniel A. Edelman

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