In a related trend, state courts are seeing a spike in debt collection lawsuits. Court filings surged in 2023 and 2024, according to a Sept. 2 report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, based on data from ...

This aggressive collection practice is widespread even in a state considered to have strong consumer protections.

Since 2019, the number of hospital lawsuits against patients in New York has fallen from 14,000 to 100 annually.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data from January shows that 14 percent of active renters still carry late fees from the ...

One day last September, while trying to pay for groceries, Leslie Alvarez got the shock of her life. All the money in her bank account had disappeared. The Houston single mother called her bank. An ...

The massive pile of documents crammed into the back room of a small, nondescript courthouse in an industrial area off Loop 410 in San Antonio carries evidence of a tide of cases overwhelming the ...

Student loan debt could become a headache for employees as well as employers in the coming months with the federal government set to ramp up its collection efforts. The U.S. Department of Education ...