Volume 29 - Number 7
February 17, 2012
Banks Paying Now and Probably Paying Later After Receiving Limited Release from Liability in Settlement
While the multistate servicing settlement reached by 49 states, federal officials and the nations five largest servicers gets the state and federal attorneys off the banks backs in regards to servicing and foreclosure, the banks are still wide open to servicing lawsuits from individuals, criminal charges and litigation over their securitization activities. This is only one part of a long resolution process, said Richard Andreano, practice leader of Ballard Spahrs mortgage banking group. Despite complaints from a wide swath of consumer protection groups that the $25 billion in penalties to be...
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