Consumer Law

AAA Exits the Consumer Debt Collection Business

By Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron, Ogilvie & Brewer

The American Arbitration Association has announced it was dropping its arbitration program for consumer debts. This comes only a few days after the National Arbitration Forum announced it was dropping its consumer debt arbitration program. Most of the cases involved credit card and cell phone debts.

This is great news for consumers who could not get a fair hearing at AAA or NAF. Both had rigged their procedures in favor of the banks and corporations that paid their fees. Consumers lost 94% of the 214,000 cases processed by NAF in 2006.

Full post as published by California Credit Law Blog on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).