Sun.May 15, 2022

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CFPB Releases Report on Mortgage Servicing Metrics

Consumer Finance

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a report examining mortgage servicers’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data, collected across 16 large servicers from May through December 2021, reveal homeowners continue to face significant risks and challenges connected to working with their mortgage servicers.

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Lose these debt myths when rebuilding your post-bankruptcy credit

Roths Child Law

Now that you have survived your Chapter 7 bankruptcy, you probably plan to rebuild your credit and improve your credit score. If you take the wrong approach to this goal, you could end up in the same situation you were in before your bankruptcy filing. You can file a Chapter 7 multiple times, but most people want to avoid going through bankruptcy again.

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CFP: Symposium on AI, Consumer Credit, and Discrimination

Public Citizen

We received the following call for papers: Nikita Aggarwal, Matt Bruckner, Kathleen Engel and Cre Johnson are putting together proposals for a symposium on AI, Consumer Credit, and Discrimination. They are applying to multiple law reviews on a rolling basis. If you have a project that fits within the proposed topic and are interested in participating in the symposium, please send a short abstract to Nikita at nikita_aggarwal@hks.harvard.edu as soon as possible.

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Insurance Claims Recoveries: Outsourcing to Reduce Claims Costs

Debt Recoveries

Insurance claims recovery is one approach to cut down on overall claims costs, by recouping some of the losses incurred in the claims process. . Specifically, where the insured is not at fault, recovering money from at-fault parties. For instance, suppose a truck collided with a structure and caused damage. The insurer will pay for the damage, but the at-fault party, in this case, the truck driver, or his or her insurance company, if they are insured, can reclaim the entire claim expense. .

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.