There were about 477 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the first half of March 2011. Here is an approximate breakdown:

•    444 FDCPA
•    55 FCRA
•    15 TILA
•    5 TCPA
 
Summary:

•    Of those cases, there were about 488 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
•    Of those plaintiffs, about 140 had sued under consumer statutes before.
•    Combined, those plaintiffs have filed about 982 lawsuits since 2001
•    Actions were filed in 120 different US District Court branches.
•    About 417 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

•    27 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court - Philadelphia
•    24 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court - Chicago
•    23 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court - Denver
•    19 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court - Brooklyn
•    17 Lawsuits: California Central District Court - Western Division - Los Angeles
•    15 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court - Atlanta
•    15 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court - Dmn
•    15 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court - Central Islip
•    14 Lawsuits: Michigan Eastern District Court - Detroit
•    9 Lawsuits: Michigan Western District Court - Southern Division

The most active consumer attorneys were:

•    Representing 14 Consumers: David Michael Larson
•    Representing 10 Consumers: Robert T. Healey, Jr.
•    Representing 10 Consumers: Adam J. Fishbein
•    Representing 10 Consumers: Tara Leigh Patterson
•    Representing 9 Consumers: Andrew Ira Glenn
•    Representing 9 Consumers: Amy Lynn Bennecoff
•    Representing 9 Consumers: Dennis Robert Kurz
•    Representing 8 Consumers: Craig Thor Kimmel
•    Representing 8 Consumers: Phillip C. Rogers
•    Representing 8 Consumers: Mark L Vavreck

Statistics Year to Date:

2224 total lawsuits for 2011, including:

•    2120 FDCPA
•    236 FCRA
•    103 TILA
•    102 TCPA

Number of Unique Plaintiffs: 2254 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

•    Representing 61 Consumers: David Michael Larson
•    Representing 58 Consumers: Craig Thor Kimmel
•    Representing 37 Consumers: Lara Ruth Shapiro
•    Representing 34 Consumers: Jack Dennis Card, Jr.
•    Representing 32 Consumers: John Thomas Steinkamp

About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.


For more information, please contact:

Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327