The third category on a nation-wide list of Top 10 consumer concerns about fraud in 2013 was Credit and Debt. Consumers voiced concerns about fraud concerning their mortgages, predatory lending, debt relief services, illegal or abusive debt collection practices, and more things of the same kind. See Robert Trigaux, Business Columnist, "Top Consumer Complaints: Amid Familiar Scams, New and Higher-Tech Fraud Gets More Aggressive," Venture Blog post, Tampa Bay Times, posted Friday, August 1, 2014, citing Consumer Complaints "compiled from state and local consumer protection agencies, 2013 Consumer Complaint Survey Report, July 2014 Consumer Federation of America, North American Consumer Protection Investigators". Here is a link to the Consumer Federation of America's website and its posted list of "Nation's Top Ten Consumer Complaints," posted on July 30, 2014.
Consumer concerns about fraud in the overall area of Credit and Debt including Mortgage servicing practices, also ranked 3d on the Top 10 list in 2012. Bad Faith claims alleged on account of lender force-placed insurance practices are detailed in 2 Dennis J. Wall, Litigation and Prevention of Insurer Bad Faith § 9:35, Force-Placed Insurance: The most frequently alleged claims and causes of action, including alleged Bad Faith (West Publishing Co. 3d Ed. and 2014 Supp.). The examination of Bad Faith claims follows after, first, a look at the background of lender force-placed insurance, see id. § 9:33, and, second, a look at the substantive issues of lender force-placed insurance and success or failure in stating claims. See id. § 9:34.
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