Ruben Rosario, reporter with TwinCities.com, compares title loans to racketeering.  Click here to read the full article. 

Click here to read an article appearing in the Marietta Daily Journal by Katy Ruth Camp about Army Staff Sgt. Jason Cox's lawsuit pending against Community Loans of America.

The State Court of Cobb County, Georgia has certified a Georgia class action lawsuit to adjudicate legal rights and obligations pertaining to payday loans that were originated, marketed or serviced by, through or on behalf of Georgia Cash America, Inc. or Cash America International, Inc. in the state of Georgia from October 9, 2001 through April 1, 2006.

Click here to read the Associated Press article by Russ Bynum. 

Click here to read the article published in the Atlanta Journal & Constitution on November 17, 2011. 

If you are an active duty service member and had a vehicle title loan or payday loan, we may be able to help.  Click here for a free evaluation.   

Ft. Benning, Ga. (11/11/11) – Exemplifying his Infantry motto, Follow Me, United States Army Infantryman and Purple Heart recipient, SSG Jason Cox, hopes to stop predatory title loans from being made to members of the military and their dependents. Flanked by Georgia’s former Governor, Staff Sergeant Cox filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against the Atlanta-based title pawn lenders Community Loans of America, Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary, Alabama Title Loans, Inc., and 900 related corporate entities operating in 22 states.

The federal court suit, filed on Veteran’s Day in Columbus, is based on the special lending protections given to active duty service members and their dependents under the Military Lending Act of 2007, a federal law that prohibits creditors from charging more than 36% APR on title and payday loans and requiring service members to give up the title to their vehicle as security of the loan. Lawmakers passed the MLA after the Pentagon reported in 2006 that “Predatory lending undermines military readiness, harms the morale of troops and their families, and adds to the cost of fielding an all-volunteer fighting force.”

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BLG partners Roy Barnes and John Bevis  have been recognized in the FCDR’s “Top Georgia Verdicts of 2010” for securing a $14 Million recovery in Kahn v. Fortis Insurance Company et. al., an insurance class action lawsuit brought on behalf of individuals and small businesses.  Kahn is ranked as the #1 highest recovery in Georgia for an insurance case, and the 7^th highest recovery among all Georgia cases in 2010.  Here’s to MAKING IT RIGHT…It’s What We Do! 

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