Fair Credit Reporting Investigation

Squitieri & Fearon, LLP is currently investigating lenders’ unlawful practices of pulling consumers’ credit reports without cause or consent. Credit reports contain personal information that is protected by federal law. Lenders can only check a person’s credit report for a reason expressly authorized under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. However, lenders systemically overstep their authority more »

Iberia Bank Forced-Place Insurance Investigation Form

We are investigating claims on behalf of Iberia Bank customers with mortgages who have been forced placed insurance. When a borrower’s homeowner’s, hazard, flood or wind insurance policy lapses, the bank holding a mortgage may “force place” insurance on the borrower. However, many banks have turned this into a profit center by placing that insurance more »

Citi Forced-Place Insurance Investigation Form

We are investigating claims on behalf of Citi customers with mortgages who have been forced placed insurance. When a borrower’s homeowner’s, hazard, flood or wind insurance policy lapses, the bank holding a mortgage may “force place” insurance on the borrower. However, many banks have turned this into a profit center by placing that insurance through more »

PNC Bank Forced-Place Insurance Investigation Form

We are investigating claims on behalf of PNC Bank customers with mortgages who have been forced placed insurance. When a borrower’s homeowner’s, hazard, flood or wind insurance policy lapses, the bank holding a mortgage may “force place” insurance on the borrower. However, many banks have turned this into a profit center by placing that insurance more »

UBS Puerto Rico Municipal Bonds and UBS Bond Funds, including the UBS Tax Free Puerto Rico Fund II Investigation

Squitieri & Fearon, LLP is investigating claims for investors who have lost money by investing through UBS in Puerto Rico municipal bonds or bond funds. We are investigating claims that UBS brokers encouraged investors to buy Puerto Rican municipal bonds and were suggesting that their brokerage customers borrow money on home equity lines of credit to more »

Hospital/Overtime Investigation

Squitieri & Fearon, LLP is investigating claims for workers in hospitals, nursing homes, and health care facilities who have been denied overtime pay because their employer averages their hours over a two-week period. The wage-and-hour law in some states requires employers to pay health care workers “time-and-a-half” overtime wages based upon a 40-hour “workweek” basis. more »

Pay Card/ATM Card/Cash Card (Paycheck Substitute) Class Action Investigation

Squitieri & Fearon, LLP is investigating employers who pay employees using ATM cards.  A growing number companies are no longer using paychecks to pay their employees and are instead issuing A.T.M. cards, debit cards and cash cards to employees.  Often the employees are then charged fees for using the card, meaning that the employees are more »

Blackrock iShares Fiduciary Breach Investigation

Squitieri & Fearon, LLP is investigating claims for investors and participants in retirement plans and pension plans in certain BlackRock iShares funds. Our claims center around what we say is a scheme to funnel revenues to affiliates of iShares and BlackRock at the expense of investors in iShares funds.  We are investigating whether BlackRock and more »

Potentially Mismanaged iShares Funds

Below is a list of funds that may have suffered losses as a result of fiduciary breaches. To learn more about our investigation, or to report a claim, click here. Asset Class Symbol Fund Name Equity AAIT MSCI All Country Asia Information Technology Index Fund Equity AAXJ MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index Fund… more »

Forced-Place Insurance Investigation

We are investigating claims on behalf of customers with mortgages who have been forced placed insurance. When a borrower’s homeowner’s, hazard, flood or wind insurance policy lapses, the bank holding a mortgage may “force place” insurance on the borrower.  However, many banks have turned this into a profit center by placing that insurance through their own affiliates at premiums rates that are significantly higher than market rates.