Tags: Lending

Who are these poor who dare to sue?

What could go wrong?

Borrowers have until 2015 to participate

Why did they even bother?

Could lead to folks paying more for cars and insurance

Banks abandon foreclosure process years after booting owners, and suddenly owners are legally liable again

Catching up on backlog

Up to 220,000 borrowers affected

Seek damages over price-fixing

$10 billion settlement with 14 lenders to settle charges

After seizing homes, lenders failing to pay dues

First increase in two years

Homes raided in investigation of interest rate manipulation

Thanks to deferred payments, one school district owes $1 billion on $100 million loan

Deal worth $450 million

Default rates jump 2 percent

$11.2 billion connected to mortgage-backed securities

Agreement totals $417 million

Federal agency filed suit against 16 banks

Too much?