Miscellaneous

• Another TILA Victim

  Paul Kiesel | May 09, 2008 5:12 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  Below is an excerpt from a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article from earlier this morning that relates the story of another borrower who was taken advantage of via TILA documents. Nancy was a...

• The FBI's Subprime Task Force

  Paul Kiesel | May 05, 2008 7:07 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  The FBI is forming a subprime lending task force in response to possible fraud and misconduct by subprime lenders. Over the last six weeks federal authorities have been trying to determine whether...

• Considering the News

  Paul Kiesel | April 30, 2008 9:20 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  Last Sunday, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, wrote an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times that was highly critical of our media's role throughout the Democratic...

• The Helpless Subprime Borrower

  Paul Kiesel | April 22, 2008 4:52 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  70 percent of seriously delinquent subprime mortgage borrowers are still not getting the help they to stay in their homes. Mortgage rescue programs like Hope Now are not able to keep pace with the...

• A Surge in Fraud Probes

  Paul Kiesel | April 17, 2008 6:03 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  The LA Land blog of the Los Angeles Times, today, had some interesting comments in regards to the recent FBI mortgage fraud investigations. LA Times blogger Peter Viles gives his two cents on the...

• What Does Larry Kudlow Know?

  Paul Kiesel | April 11, 2008 7:31 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  Larry Kudlow, of the CNBC talk show Kudlow & Company and Economics Editor for National Review, has been making some very bold claims in regards to the housing and subprime mortgage crisis, over...

• 2007 an Unfortunate Banner Year for Subprime-Related Litigation.

  Miriam Schimmel | April 08, 2008 4:24 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  Industry reports indicate that the number of federal court cases stemming from borrower subprime mortgage claims almost doubled in the last half of 2007. Of those filed, more than one-third were...

• Medical Malpractice Damage Cap Struck Down in LA

  Elaine Mandel | October 03, 2006 5:26 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  The amount a victims of medical malpractice can be awarded is limited by law in many states, including California and Louisiana. In those two states, victims' recoveries for pain and suffering were set over two decades ago. But this may be changing.In many states there are limits, or "caps," on what victims of medical malpractice can recover when they sue the doctors or hospitals that caused...

• More Bayer Birth Control Dangers

  Paul Kiesel | November 12, 2009 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From Fox News: Within the past year both Christine Navarro and Robyn Dunn were rushed to the hospital with life threatening blood clots. At the time Christine was taking the Yaz birth control pill...

• LAT: Headed to the Emergency Room? Bring a book...

  Paul Kiesel | November 10, 2009 7:13 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From the Los Angeles Times: The stereotype of hospital emergency rooms crowded with patients waiting endlessly to be seen by a doctor is true, according to a new study in Tuesday's edition of...