Automotive Finance Corporation, commonly known as AFC, has been suing more of its customers in Marion County (Indianapolis), Indiana than in previous times.  In most of these cases, AFC gets a default judgment, then they begin post-judgment collections.If AFC takes a judgment against you what can you expect? You can expect that any national financial […]

For years, Indiana has been a center for injustice regarding the issuance of body attachments for unpaid civil judgments.  A body attachment is basically an arrest. Technically, it is not for failure to pay the judgment, rather, it is for contempt of court for failing to attend a proceeding supplemental to judgment to give information […]

There was a large recall of  154,000 2017 Chrysler Pacificas a year ago over complaints that the vehicle would stall unexpectedly. It is a traumatic experience when your vehicle konks out in the middle of an intersection on a busy highway.  A scan of the web shows that Pacifica owners were given lots of explanations […]

The office of Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill (I say office of, because A.G. Hill seems to be spending more time running from his scandals than running the office) filed an action against two car dealers. According to the Indianapolis Star: The civil suit, according to a news release, takes aim at Jerramy Johnson and Jeffrey Presnell, who […]

Jaw operations for crossbite, TMJ and other conditions are routinely denied by insurance companies, and they are often excluded explicitly in policies, even policies that are somewhat generous in most other kinds of care.  We ran into a situation where United Health excluded a jaw operation.  Apparently, paying to fix peoples’ jaws will get in […]

What’s worse than a payday loan? Not much, but one thing that is worse is a fake payday loan. The FTC has taken action against a group of firms they say bilked consumers out of tens of millions of dollars by putting through electronic funds transfer requests for payments on loans that never existed. The […]