The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a branch of the U.S. Department of the Treasury that administers, implements, and enforces economic sanctions against countries and individuals who are prohibited from conducting business in the United States including terrorists, money launderers, arms dealers and narcotics traffickers. An OFAC alert may appear on your credit report if your name
Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C is pleased to announce that Jim Francis, Mark D. Mailman, John Soumilas, Joseph Gentilcore and David A. Searles have been selected to the 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list. Jim Francis was again included on the Top 100 Super Lawyer list for both the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, having made both lists for
If you have a poor credit score that is holding you back from securing a mortgage, a car loan, or being eligible for financial aid, there are legitimate credit repair services that can work with you to repair your damaged credit. They will thoroughly examine your credit report, identify negative items that are hurting your
The Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohi Chopra has filed a lawsuit against credit reporting agency TransUnion, two of its subsidiaries, and former executive John Danaher, accusing them of continuing to trick consumers into making ongoing payments after the company was previously fined for similar activity in 2017. The 2017 settlement required TransUnion to
In November 2016, media outlets across the U.S., including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, were abuzz with the findings from a new study by Yale University researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the study, when a person with health insurance goes to the
If you have an outstanding bill or you have fallen behind on your mortgage or credit card payments, you may be contacted by a debt collection agency. Whether you have lost your job, suffered a medical emergency, or you simply made some unfortunate financial decisions that caused you to accumulate debt, owing a substantial amount
The three main credit reporting agencies (CRAs), Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, recently announced that this summer, they will remove certain types of medical debts from Americans’ credit reports and change how they report these debts. Medical debt is a major concern for many Americans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) estimates that more than $88
Every year, millions of Americans are conned out of their hard-earned money by deceptive, unscrupulous individuals who make false claims to consumers and cheat them out of a significant amount of money. Too often, innocent, hard-working individuals are exploited during an interaction with an individual or a business representative who convinces them that they are
Having practiced consumer rights law for more than two decades, it’s not unusual for other lawyers to tell me they have no idea what consumer rights law is, and that they highly doubt their clients have legal issues that would fall under the consumer rights umbrella. But ignorance is not bliss, especially when it comes
We’d all like to think that we’re unique. But if we were to judge our uniqueness simply by our first and last names, we’d be disappointed. Some of us might share the same first and last names with hundreds or thousands of other people. According to research from Southern Illinois University, there were 34,269 people