Miscellaneous

• Wells Fargo Singled Out Blacks for Subprime Mortgages, Suit Alleges

  Gary Shipman | June 08, 2009 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Wells Fargo targeted members of the black community for subprime, high interest mortgages, referring to its targets as mud people and the loans given to them as ghetto loans, according to Wells...

• Propane Tank Ripoff - Consumers Get Less While Suppliers Get More

  Gary Shipman | June 08, 2009 11:49 AM | 3 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Well, it seems that something stinks on the grill, and it's not what you're cooking. When oil prices jumped in 2008, propane suppliers reduced by 2 pounds the amount of propane gass pumped into...

• Foreclosure - Is Race/Sex a Precipitating Factor?

  Gary Shipman | June 02, 2009 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The foreclosure crisis in this country should create a basis for pause and analysis as to the identity of those that suffer the loss of their home, versus those that, for whatever reason, are...

• Don't Be a Victim of Consumer Fraud

  Gary Shipman | April 09, 2009 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  After every natural disaster, there are those that seek to take advantage of the pain of others. Peddlers of $5,000.00 generators (whose cost is less than $1,000.00) have been criminal prosecuted,...

• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Regarding Regions Financial Corporation Investment

  Gary Shipman | April 02, 2009 5:25 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  On April 1, 2009, an investor in an 8.875% Trust Preferred Securities of Regionsl Financing Capital Trust (NYSE RF-PZ) filed a class action lawsuit in United States District Court in New York on...

• Construction Law and avoiding litigation

  William Wright | January 27, 2009 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  As the United States current economic state declines new home construction reaches an all time low and construction businesses, small or large, needs to be cautious as to where money is being spent....

• Is Cancer Insurance Worth The Money?

  Jean Martin | May 13, 2008 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 1.5 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year. Let's face it, cancer is a fact of life these days. And as medical expenses continue to...

• Senate Committee to Examine Foreclosure Crisis and Abuse

  Gary Shipman | April 29, 2008 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight, chaired by Sen. Charles E. Schumer, plans to hold a hearing next week on alleged abuses by mortgage lenders who are...

• Foreclosure - It's Not The End of the World; It May Be The Beginning

  Gary Shipman | April 29, 2008 10:14 AM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  You saw the ads. "No income verification; low interest rates; pay off your credit cards." You, as hundreds of thousands of other consumers across the United States, jumped at the opportunities that...

• Retirees Receive Bad Investment Advice

  Jean Martin | March 13, 2008 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Retirees frequently seek investment advice as to how to best manage their retirement funds. This advice sometimes includes the investment of a large percentage of the retiree's funds into high cost, high fee variable annuities and related investments and often the advice comes with assurances that these investments will produce monthly income. Unfortunately, these retiree investment products...