By Anne Bucher  |  January 24, 2017

Category: Closed Class Actions

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Force Placed Hazard Insurance

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging LoanCare LLC and American Security Insurance Company force-placed excessive insurance policies on borrowers’ property.

If you were charged by LoanCare LLC for a lender-placed insurance policy for your residential property between Jan. 1, 2009 and Oct. 19, 2016, you may be entitled to benefits from the LoanCare class action settlement.

It is not illegal for a lender to force-place an insurance policy on a borrower’s property if the borrower fails to maintain a policy that is acceptable to the lender. However, the lender-placed insurance policy must be reasonable.

The plaintiffs assert LoanCare force-placed insurance policies in a manner such that it would receive an unauthorized benefit. According to the force-placed insurance class action lawsuit, LoanCare force-placed insurance policies so that it would receive “kickbacks” in the form of commissions or other payments from the Assurant defendants.

The force-placed insurance class action lawsuit asserts that the insurance policies LoanCare imposed upon borrowers caused their rates and the amount of insurance coverage to be excessive.

The defendants deny any wrongdoing and maintain that their actions were authorized by law. However, they agreed to settle the force-placed insurance class action lawsuit to avoid the expense and uncertainty of ongoing litigation.

If you would like to opt out of or object to the LoanCare class action settlement, you must do so no later than Feb. 17, 2017.

Who’s Eligible

Class Members of the LoanCare force-placed insurance settlement include “all borrowers in the United States who, within the Class Period (as defined below) were charged by LoanCare under a hazard, flood, flood-gap or wind-only LPI Policy for Residential Property, and who, within the Class Period, either (i) paid to LoanCare some or all of the Net Premium for that LPI Policy or (ii) did not pay to and still owe LoanCare the Net Premium for that LPI Policy.”

The Class Period is Jan. 1, 2009 through Oct. 19, 2016.

Potential Award

Varies. The defendants have agreed to pay a cash award or credit in the following amounts:

  • A sum equal to 5 percent of the Net Premium if you were charged by LoanCare for a flood or wind force-placed insurance policy during the Class Period
  • A sum equal to 5 percent of the Net Premium if you were charged by LoanCare for a hazard force-placed insurance policy on or after June 1, 2013
  • A sum equal to 8 percent of the Net Premium if you were charged by LoanCare for a hazard force-placed insurance policy on or before May 31, 2013

Proof of Purchase

N/A

Claim Form

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Claim Form Deadline

The settlement website indicates that the Claim Form deadline will be no earlier than June 16, 2017.

Case Name

McNeil v. LoanCare LLC, Case No. 1:16-cv-20830-KMW, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Final Hearing

3/16/2017

UPDATE: The LoanCare force-placed insurance settlement received final approval from the court on March 17, 2017.  Claims will more than likely not be paid until after the claim form deadline, which is currently June 16, 2017.  Let Top Class Actions know when you receive a check in the comments section below or on our  Facebook page.

Settlement Website

www.McNeilSettlementInfo.com

Claims Administrator

McNeil Settlement Center
c/o Rust Consulting
P.O. Box 2563
Faribault, MN 55021-9563
1-877-865-5287

Class Counsel

Adam M. Moskowitz
KOZYAK TROPIN & THROCKMORTON PA

Aaron S. Podhurst
PODHURST ORSECK PA

Lance A. Harke
HARKE CLASBY & BUSHMAN LLP

Defense Counsel

Counsel for LoanCare:
Robert M. Brochin
Brian M. Ercole
MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

Counsel for Assurant Defendants:
Frank G. Burt
CARLTON FIELDS JORDEN BURT PA

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25 thoughts onLoanCare Force-Placed Insurance Class Action Settlement

  1. Caleb Horne says:

    U think this is all they do illegally?
    I’ve litterally been on my own over here in panama city Florida 32405
    For well over 3 yrs and its going into 4yrs of solid foreclosure proceedings they have inacted illegally on me and my wife’s PAID OFF PROPERTY. Yes paid off with insurance claim check for damages from hurricane Michael. That i and some contractors invested in and repaired in order to even get a %100 inspection back for loancare and the insurance company’s in order for them to even reimburse me. Then i had to get a insurance adjuster to just get them to repay me for my initial materials investment in order to get the repairs done. Then after fighting that fight for over almost a year i got a insurance claims chevk of $270,000.00 and my mortgage at the time of pay off was $214,000. 00. So they saud i needed to sign it (Ocwen loan servicing, at that time they serviced the loan) then apparently because they were being class action sued they went bankrupt. But before they went bankrupt they doubled my initial loan amount then took my 214k and paid off half of the loan. Then sold the debt to lakeview also known as loancare llc and a bunch of other names that I’ve kept up with over the last 4yrs.

    But that is besides the point.
    Because even that made no since. Or at least to anyone being serviced by loancare or lakeview should really have an accountant or mathematics person take a look at their escrow amounts and numbers. Because they wont make since…etc

    I have well over 694 illegally documented actions from both loancare llc and lakeview loan servicing llc. And their jointly named companies like “Lakeview loan servicing by Loancare llc” or “Lakeview and Loancare loanservicing llc”

    There were more names over the history of me steal dealing with these assholes. Like litterally they r tryinv harder than ever to take my paid off home from me. Probably because it has well over a half a milliondollars in equity now in it plus a 1 of a kind power off grid inductor, that i am the sole proprietary owner of the technology in it and in 7 other free or self Propetuating motors that r carbon free emissions and r actually able to clean the carbon out of the air with zero vizuaul movements needed at all…etc

    Point is I am NOT DUMB AND YET THESE ASS HOLES CONTINUE TO TREAT ME AND EVERY OTHER CUSTOMER’S THEY DO LOAN SERVICES FOR LIKE WE R JUST HERE TO MILK FIRCEVERY DIME. AND THEN IF 1 OR 10 OF US SUE THEY ONLY LOOSE ON AVERAGE %20 OF THE ILLEGALLY OBTAINED MONIES THEY TOOK FROM US ALL. SO WHY THE FFF WOULD THEY STOP DOING WHAT THEY R DOING.
    THERE NEEDS TO BE REAL COURT ORDERED PUNISHMENTS TO THESE TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT DO THIS INTENTIONALLY TIME AND TIME AGAIN. LIKE JAIL TIME..

    BECAUSE IF I LOOSE MY PROPERTY FROM THESE DOUCHES FRAUD. I CAN PROMISE U ANYONE WHOM BENEFITED IN ANY WAY FROM THEIR MISCONDUCT AND ILLEGALLY AND INMORAL BEHAVIORS AND ACTIONS. R GOING TO FACE JUSTICE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. BUT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND HELP I’VE GIVEN THIS COUNTRY FROM MULTIPLE TOP SECRET PROJECTS TO THE INTIAL INVENTIONS OF MINE TO THE REDEACT STILL 36 MISSIONS I’VE DONE FOR THIS COUNTRIES THINK TANKS.

    I’M SURE I WILL GET JUSTICE.
    AND AS FAR AS THE DECISIONS THEY MAKE GOING FORWARD. LETS JUST HOPE THEY HAVE MORE COMMON SINCE THEN WHAT IM STILL SEEING AND HEARING FROM THEM.

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