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Banks Paying Now and Probably Paying Later After Receiving Limited Release from Liability in Settlement

February 16, 2012
While the multistate servicing settlement reached by 49 states, federal officials and the nation’s 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 Spahr’s 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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