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View full case report Consumer Protection
Award:$560,183.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types:Consumer Protection - Truth in Lending Act | Intentional Torts - Fraud | Real Estate Transactions - Mortgages
Case: Panfilo Vasquez-Lopez and Maria C. Dominguez, husband and wife, v. Beneficial Oregon, Inc., dba Beneficial Mortgage, Corp., a foreign company
Venue: Multnomah County Circuit Court
State: OR
Date: January 30, 2004
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Sherman Oaks CA) Banking/Savings & Loans
Summary: Plaintiffs Panfilo Vasquez-Lopez and his wife, Maria Dominguez, both factory workers age 52 and 50 respectively, were Mexican immigrants who owned a home just outside of northeastern Portland, Ore. Th...
View full case report Business Law
Award:$885,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types:Business Law - Intentional Interference with a Contract | Consumer Protection - Fair Credit Reporting Act | Creditor and Debtor - Consumer Credit Law | Defamation - Fair Report Privilege | Negligence
Case: Reed Fisher, Maryan Fisher v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Trans Union LLC
Venue: Superior Court of San Bernardino County, Rancho Cucamonga
State: CA
Date: March 06, 2007
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Sherman Oaks CA) Credit Damage
Summary: In 1989, plaintiff married couple Reed Fisher and Maryanne Fisher, both in their 60s and small business owners, purchased and started living in a property in San Clemente. They then made on-time month...
View full case report Banking
Award:$10,300,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types:Banking - Breach of Fiduciary Duty | Fraud - Investment
Case: Thomas H. Casey, as Trustee in Bankruptcy, v. Wells Fargo Bank; City National Bank; and U.S. Bank National Association
Venue: Superior Court of Orange County, Orange
State: CA
Date: January 30, 2008
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Sherman Oaks CA) Bank Policies & Procedures
Summary: Plaintiff Thomas H. Casey, bankruptcy trustee, was overseeing the bankruptcy of a fraudulent investment company called DFJ Italia Ltd., which allegedly swindled about 200 investors, such as NFL stars ...
View full case report Conversion
Award:$170,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types: Conversion
Case: Steven Lee, M.D. v. Bank of America
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Central
State: CA
Date: February 05, 2001
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Bank Policies & Procedures
Summary: 1992, plaintiff, a physician in his 40s, hired Yoon Seok aka Yoon Sok Hong aka Jason Hong as his bookkeeper. Over the course of the next six years, Jason Hong stole over 1,000 checks worth a total of ...
View full case report Fraud
Award:$135,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types: Fraud
Case: Efren R. Angel and Teresa M. Angel v. Villa Honda, YFB Hemet, Inc. dba Villa Honda and WFS Financial, Inc.
Venue: Superior Court of Orange County, Santa Ana
State: CA
Date: September 17, 2001
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Loans
Summary: March 26, 1999, plaintiff Efren Angel, a 25-year-old auto parts store manager, and his wife, Teresa Angel, a homemaker in her mid-20s, purchased a used 1992 Honda Accord from defendant Villa Honda, wh...
View full case report Breach of Contract
Award:$300,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types: Breach of Contract
Case: Viva Tiger, Inc. v. Cathay Bancorp dba Cathay Bank
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Pasadena
State: CA
Date: June 28, 2001
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Banks
Summary: 1986, plaintiff Viva Tiger, an exporter and distributor of fresh produce, began to maintain a business checking and money market account with defendant Cathay Bank, a publicly traded banking instituti...
View full case report Real Estate
Award:n/a | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types: Real Estate
Case: BMB Properties vs. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Central
State: CA
Date: March 03, 1998
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Bank Policies & Procedures
Summary: 10/31/84: Plaintiff's former partners obtained a $750,000 loan from Mercury Savings by forging a trust deed encumbering the partnership's two apartment buildings. Mercury was taken over by Federal Dep...
View full case report Real Estate
Award:$9,100,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types: Real Estate
Case: Clarence Takaki and Chieno Takaki vs. Hawthorne Savings, F.S.B., a Federal Corporation
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Torrance
State: CA
Date: June 30, 1997
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Bank Policies & Procedures
Summary: By 1990, Plaintiffs Clarence T. Takaki (age 82) and Chieno Takaki (age 70) had been raising strawberries and other crops on their two (2) acre farm on S. Vermont Avenue for over 43 years. They attempt...
View full case report Banking
Award:n/a | Decision-Defendant
Case Types: Banking | Conversion
Case: Kim Hughes et al. v. Home Savings of America
Venue: Superior Court of Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara
State: CA
Date: March 24, 1997
Summary: In August of 1990, plaintiffs Kim and Cynthia Hughes purchased a $1.4 million home with a $1 million mortgage obtained from defendant. Plaintiffs became delinquent in property tax advance repayments t...
View full case report Fraud
Award:$350,000.00 | Settlement
Case Types: Fraud
Case: Chia Ling Yang v. Bank of America
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Norwalk
State: CA
Date: September 01, 1998
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Bank Policies & Procedures
Summary: 1995: Plaintiff established a deposit account at Bank of America as security for third-party loans. The bank agreed to hold the funds subject to a signature withdrawal by Plaintiff. In 1997, a real es...
View full case report Fraud
Award:$286,000.00 | Settlement
Case Types: Fraud
Case: Jose Farias, Rita Ortega, and Irma Blanco; Geraldo Amezcua; Salvador Ochoa; Rene Gariepy v. Alhambra Pontiac, GMC, Buick, Inc.
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Central
State: CA
Date: March 21, 2002
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Los Angeles CA) Banking/Savings & Loans
Summary: Alhambra Pontiac, GMC, Buick Inc. agreed to pay $286,000 to a group of its customers over charges that the dealership engaged in auto dealer fraud, lease fraud and failing to disclose prior rental sta...
View full case report Banking
Award:$80,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff
Case Types:Banking - Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Case: California Federal Bank v. Russell Crawford, B&H Custom Window & Door Inc., et al.
Venue: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Central
State: CA
Date: October 02, 2002
Experts: Thomas A. Tarter (Sherman Oaks CA) Savings & Loans Lending
Summary: The plaintiff bank instituted suit to enforce a guaranty issued by defendant B&H Custom Window and Door Inc. ("B&H") to the plaintiff's predecessor bank, Transworld Bank, for a $750,000 loan to B&H's ...
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