Lawsuits

Accountants, as well as lawyers and consultants, who helped small businesses apply for emergency relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program want to be compensated. Are they entitled to be?

The Credit Union National Association filed the class action suit in 2017 after roughly 147 million people had personal information exposed through a hack of the credit reporting agency.

The National Credit Union Administration has filed a brief in opposition to the American Bankers Association's request that the court consider its challenge of the agency's field-of-membership rule.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, California Reinvestment Coalition and Democracy Forward accuse the agency of “unlawfully gutting” the historic anti-redlining law.

The company, formed by the merger of BB&T and SunTrust, shared the information in response to a credit union's legal challenge to its new name.

In response to Truliant Federal Credit Union's request for an injunction, the bank said it has already spent $125 million on the Truist branding, and changing that name would add further costs and damage the bank's reputation.

The Fairfax, Va.-based credit union agreed to pay $2.7 million in the class action case, though it did not admit any wrongdoing.

Nebraska bankers sued after MembersOwn Credit Union successfully added eight counties to its field of membership last year.

The company disclosed that an internal review of a now-discontinued loan program found that employees engaged in misconduct tied to income verification and requirements, among other things.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau heads to the Supreme Court on the same day as 95 credit union-supported candidates take part in the year's first congressional primary races.