- Plaintiffs in class action suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co., who were fraudulently charged unnecessary home inspection fees, argue that the bank cannot avoid class certification because Chase admitted that “determining whether an inspection was reasonable requires an assessment of the borrower’s and property’s individual circumstances.” The plaintiffs claim “Chase cannot turn back time and do now what it was required to do then.”
- Deutsche Bank AG and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. settle in suit accusing Deutsche Bank of misleading investors over approximately $125 million in residential mortgage-backed securities by failing to determine the accuracy of the statements in its offering documents.
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Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- Quicken Loans Inc. argues that its suit against the federal government is valid because it is more than just a fraud case. It claims that it is about broader issues with government housing programs.
- A class action suit against JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will not be dismissed over failure to file timely mortgage satisfactions even though one of the plaintiffs rejected a settlement offer for more than she could get from a court judgment.
- An administrative judge denied that the SEC had shown fraud in commercial mortgage-backed securities suit against Standard & Poor’s former executive, Barbara Duka, because the SEC failed to show that S&P had done anything wrong, let alone Duka.
- IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG’s suit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. remains intact for losses after a $73.2 million purchase of residential mortgage-backed securities. Goldman Sachs argued that the suit was beyond the German 3-year statute of limitations.
- Law360 compiles lists of “The Top Banking Cases In The First Half of 2015.”