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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide credit reporting companies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months. Click here for more.
Ford recalls F-150 and Super Duty Trucks with engine block heaters
Ford Motor Company is recalling 874,000 model year 2015-2019 F-150s and model year 2017-19 Super Duty vehicles equipped with engine block heaters that had been inspected in an earlier recall. In previously inspected vehicles, the engine block heater cable splice connectors may have inadvertently become damaged during that service procedure. Click here for more.
Your Money
Another day, another instance in which consumers’ least-favorite four-letter word -- scam -- is in the news. Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody has published a consumer alert about a growing vacation rental scam built around fake online ads designed to hoodwink consumers. The dupers use two different hooks: one, where they create vacation rental properties that are not actually available for rent; or, two, a real vacation listing that the scammer commandeers by changing the contact information. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Attorney’s fees not allowed for work done on an appeal defending award of attorney’s fees. The Eleventh Circuit held that a Florida woman who won a judgment for charging improper fees is not entitled under state law to collect appellate attorney fees for her counsel's work defending an initial attorney fees award in the case. The federal court backed a lower court's decision to deny the request for attorney fees covering Defendant's appeal based on a finding that the benefit would be purely for her attorneys and that she has no obligation to pay them for this work. Alhassid v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, case number 18-11985, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Click here for more.