FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics for April 16-30

Grand Rapids, Mich. — The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, April 16-30, 2010

There were about 556 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the second half of April. Here is an approximate breakdown:

• 483 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• 41 Fair Credit Reporting Act
• 1 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
• 13 Truth In Lending Act
• 1 Credit Repair Organizations Act
• 11 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
• 1 Federal Trade Commission Act
• 2 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
• 7 State of California Consumer Statutes 
• 1 State of Florida Consumer Statutes 
• 1 State of Hawaii Consumer Statutes 
• 1 State of Maryland Consumer Statutes 
• 2 State of West Virginia Consumer Statutes 
• 5 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act

Summary:

• Of those cases, there were about 566 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
• Of those plaintiffs, about 169 had sued under consumer statutes before. 
• Combined, those 169 plaintiffs have filed about 1000 lawsuits since 2001 
• Actions were filed in 110 different US District Court branches. 
• About 489 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

• 43 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
• 33 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn 
• 32 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN 
• 28 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago 
• 23 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia 
• 21 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver 
• 19 Lawsuits: Indiana Southern District Court – Indianapolis 
• 18 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Fort Lauderdale 
• 15 Lawsuits: New York Western District Court – Buffalo 
• 14 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Central Islip

The most active consumer attorneys were:

• Representing 29 Consumers: Adam Jon Fishbein
• Representing 25 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg 
• Representing 20 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings 
• Representing 18 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman 
• Representing 18 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough 
• Representing 17 Consumers: Mark L. Vavreck 
• Representing 16 Consumers: David Michael Larson  
• Representing 14 Consumers: James D. Pacitti 
• Representing 14 Consumers: Craig Thor Kimmel 
• Representing 10 Consumers: Thomas J. Lyons Jr.

Statistics Year to Date

3825 total lawsuits for 2010, including:

• 3262 FDCPA
• 340 FCRA 
• 9 TCPA 
• 139 TILA (Truth in Lending Act)

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 3842 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

• Representing 115 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
• Representing 112 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings 
• Representing 103 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee 
• Representing 97 Consumers: David Michael Larson 
• Representing 96 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman

About WebRecon LLC (www.webrecon.com)
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.