Topic: Lori Swanson
Federal regulators plan to take enforcement action against Discover Financial Services, one of the nation's largest issuers of credit cards. The...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Minnesota sued Encore Capital Group Inc, one of the largest U.S. debt collectors, for allegedly using fraudulent "robo-signed" affidavits in collection cases, a practice that critics say also infects home foreclosures.Thursday's lawsuit against Encore's Midland ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Encore Capital Group Inc was accused by Minnesota of filing unverified affidavits in litigation to collect on consumer debt.Attorney General Lori Swanson said Encore's Midland Funding LLC unit took shortcuts in trying to extract payments, often using ...
Minn. Attorney General Swanson sues Discover over charges for credit card protection programsMinnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing Discover over allegations that the credit card company charged customers for unauthorized account protection programs such as credit score tracking and identity theft ...
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed suit against Discover Financial Services' (DFS) banking unit, alleging it deceptively charged...
GOP Minn. Gov. Pawlenty weighs in on challenge to Obama health law with brief supporting suitMinnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a potential GOP presidential candidate, stepped up his attack Thursday on President Barack Obama's federal health care law with a court filing ...
States, including California and Massachusetts, recently have announced new rules and regulations for discount medical cards and limited benefit plans. Since 2005, California's Dept. of Managed Health Care has ordered 18 companies to stop selling in California and has licensed one ...
Minn. A-G sues 2 Texas companies for misrepresenting their products as insurance Minnesota's attorney general on Wednesday sued two Texas companies she said falsely represented their discounted health care plans as medical insurance to thousands of customers.The companies used words ...
Minn. AG: Utilities should be limited from temporary rate hikes as they await state approvalMinnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and Democratic lawmakers are proposing that electricity and natural gas utilities be more limited in imposing temporary rate hikes while they await state ...
Minnesota Democrats, including AG Swanson, try again to enact foreclosure mediation billMinnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and Democratic legislators said Wednesday that they will try again this year to enact a foreclosure mediation bill vetoed last year by Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty ...