Category: Settlements & Claims
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Credit Acceptance’s multistate settlement covers auto loans made from November 2015 through November 2025
A decade of Credit Acceptance auto loans, not just the ones being made now, is covered by the multistate settlement the company reached with state attorneys general on September 17, 2026. Maryland’s attorney general says the case reaches loans originated from November 1, 2015, through November 30, 2025, a window that determines who is eligible…
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Credit Acceptance borrowers with risky loans made since December 2025 can qualify for 95% debt relief under a five-year program starting November 2
Credit Acceptance Corporation, one of the country’s largest subprime auto lenders, agreed to give some future borrowers a way out of a loan that goes bad. Under a multistate settlement announced September 17, 2026, the company must offer 95% debt relief to qualifying borrowers with risky loans made starting in December 2025, through a program…
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Amazon Prime refund payments expire 60 days after they are issued, the FTC warns, as payouts continue through April 2027
Amazon Prime members who are due money back from a 2025 Federal Trade Commission settlement are running against a clock most of them do not know exists. The FTC says every refund payment in the case, whether it arrives as a mailed check, a PayPal transfer or a Venmo deposit, expires 60 days after it…
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Amazon customers who returned items have until December 1 to file in the return-refund settlement, while some are paid automatically
Amazon customers whose returns or refunds went wrong between 2017 and early 2026 have until December 1 to act on a class-action settlement that has already set aside money for them. Some of those customers do not have to file anything at all; the settlement pays them automatically. Others have to submit a claim form…
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Buyers of VSL#3 probiotics from 2016 to 2019 have until October 20 to claim from a class-action settlement
Purchasers of the probiotic supplement VSL#3 between June 1, 2016, and June 19, 2019, have until October 20, 2026, to file a claim in a $20 million class-action settlement, with payment options running from a flat $20 per bottle without a receipt to as much as $800 per household for buyers who kept proof of…
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Amazon expands Prime refunds to members who used 11 to 20 benefits
Amazon will begin sending automatic Prime refunds on October 1, 2026, to millions of additional customers who used between 11 and 20 Prime benefits in a one-year period, the Federal Trade Commission said September 17. A federal court approved a revised order in the FTC’s 2025 Prime settlement that widens eligibility, raises the maximum payment…
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Nissan’s lending arm is mailing refunds to overcharged New York lease buyers through 2026
Checks are going out in New York one audited dealership at a time, and the company writing them is the lender that owned the cars all along. Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, the captive finance arm that buys Nissan leases from dealers and holds title to the vehicles, agreed to refund every New Yorker who…
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Ring is sending a third round of payments to camera owners by Zelle
Settlement money has a habit of going uncollected, and the doorbell camera case is proving it. The money Ring was ordered to pay over its handling of customer video is reaching camera owners for a third time, and this round arrives by Zelle rather than by check or PayPal, aimed squarely at the people who…
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The Education Department says it will fully forgive loans for deceived University of Phoenix students
A decade after the advertisements ran, the paperwork is still moving. The U.S. Department of Education has determined that borrowers who enrolled at the University of Phoenix because of the school’s claims about job opportunities with big-name employers are entitled to have their federal student loans wiped out entirely, not trimmed. The department is still…
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lists 28 cases still paying money back to consumers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau keeps a public register of the enforcement cases whose money is still moving, and that register currently runs to 28 ongoing cases against 49 closed ones. A few of the names are familiar from television commercials and monthly statements. Most are not, which is precisely why the list exists: the…
