Lawsuits
PHILADELPHIA, Sep 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The law firm of Berger & Montague, P.C. has filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of all Michigan homeowners whose mortgage loans have been serviced by Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc. and/or Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (collectively “Defendants”), and who, since April 13, 2009, (1) have entered into a Trial Period Plan (“TPP”) contract with Defendants and made all payments as required by their TPP contract and complied with Defendants’ requests for documentation, and (2) have not received or have been denied a permanent Home Affordable Modification Agreement that complied with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”) rules.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Subsidiaries of Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and Morgan Stanley (MS) will pay more than $22 million to settle charges that they wrongfully foreclosed on active-duty military members without first obtaining court orders, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court in New York against Saxon Mortgage Services Inc., the Morgan Stanley mortgage servicer division, for failing to fulfill its obligations under the federally-sponsored Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) to homeowners in financial distress.
Saxon Mortgage parent company Morgan Stanley agreed to pay millions of dollars to the state of Massachusetts to end an investigation into its role in loaning billions to a company that gave mortgages to unqualified borrowers.
Saxon Mortgage parent company Morgan Stanley has been sued over risky collateralized debts. The lawsuit filed Dec. 24 in Manhattan federal court said Morgan Stanley collaborated with credit rating agencies Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s to obtain “triple-A” ratings for notes marketed in 2007 as part of a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) known as Libertas.