Articles Posted in arbitration

Last month, we provided some tips on avoiding arbitration. Thankfully, due to recent developments, you might not need that advice – at least when it comes to consumer financial products. A few weeks ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by the Dodd-Frank legislation in the wake the 2008 financial…

  Banks. Cell phone service providers. Social networking sites. Insurance companies. Nursing homes. What do they have in common? They all attempt to rob you, their customer, of your day in court. And, usually, they succeed. Forced arbitration is the cancer of the American justice system.  Accompanying—indeed accelerating— the national…