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Part 1024). Code Ann., Com. Robinson et al v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, No. 8:2014cv03667 - Justia Law A fact is "material" if it "might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law." Id. 2605(f). Two homeowners have filed suit against Nationstar Mortgage LLC, which does business as Mr. Cooper, after the mortgage servicer allegedly made several unauthorized electronic fund transfers from their account. Finally, to the extent that Oliver did not execute his stated methodology for identifying damages, that limitation is again based in part on Nationstar's failure to make relevant data available to him. Check out:Covid-19 pandemic is the first time 40% of Americans have experienced food insecurity, Don't miss:Amex Blue Cash Preferred is offering an elevated welcome bonus for a limited time, Get Make It newsletters delivered to your inbox, Learn more about the world of CNBC Make It, 2023 CNBC LLC. Robinson v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC - Justia Dockets & Filings Mrs. Robinson was the primary point of contact for the Robinsons in interacting with Nationstar. Where Accrued Financial addresses a different scenario with a different remedy, the Court does not find that it requires that the testimony of an expert witness paid on contingency fee basis must be excluded. TDC-14-3667, 2019 WL 4261696 (D. Md. StubHub, Apple, other class action settlement checks in the mail Old Navy, Nissan, Equifax, other class action settlement payments in the mail Postmates, 1-800 Contacts, other settlement checks on the way It is the plaintiffs who bear the burden of proving their claims. In addition to the fines and restitution, Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings said the settlements require Nationstar to adhere to increased "servicing standards." SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Settlement Agreement is entered into between plaintiff Demetrius Robinson ("Plaintiff"), on behalf of himself and the Class Members (as defined below), and defendant Nationstar Mortgage LLC ("Nationstar"). 1024.41(c)(1)(i)-(ii), (g). 19-303.4 cmt.3. HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Monday, that his office obtained an $86.3 million settlement from Nationstar Mortgage, the country's fourth-largest mortgage . Wesleyan Coll. Messner v. Northshore Univ. Additional facts relevant to the pending motions are set forth below. This assertion mischaracterizes the burden of proof in a civil case. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338, 348-49 (2011) ("[A] class representative must be part of the class and possess the same interest and suffer the same injury as the class members." Id 1024.41(c)(1). Cent. 10696, 10708, provides that "[a] servicer is only required to comply with the requirements of this section for a single complete loss mitigation application for a borrower's mortgage loan account." Code Ann., Com. Since the parties do not argue that the Nationwide Class and the Maryland Subclass differ for the purposes of the class certification analysis, the Court will analyze them together. Sept. 2, 2015). (ds) Download PDF Search this Case Mr. Cooper Withdraws Mortgage Payments Without - Class Action 1976) (holding that while it may be unethical for a lawyer to testify on behalf of a client as an expert, "it does not necessarily follow that any alleged professional misconduct" would require exclusion of the testimony because the rules of professional conduct do "not delineate rules of evidence"); United States v. Fogel, 901 F.2d 23, 26 (4th Cir. For the claims that rely on the timing of a response, Oliver and the Robinsons propose using changes in the Remedy Star substatus or LSAMS codes and documents stored in FileNet to identify the date a loan modification application was received or marked as complete, to identify the date a response was sent, and to count the number of days between events. 2005))). Since Mrs. Robinson may not bring a claim under Regulation X, she may not be a named class representative. 2006). In Frank v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 2016) (dicta). Code Ann., Com. Code Ann., Com. Fed. To calculate damages, Oliver stated that he would look to data from the LSAMS application, including data tables that contain fee information, to identify fees that would not have been charged but for Nationstar's various RESPA violations, but that he was not able to evaluate this data in his report because it had not been provided to him. A Scheduling Order was first entered on November 24, 2015, and the period for discovery was extended four times between November 2015 and January 2017. Docket for Robinson v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, 8:14-cv-03667 Brought to you by the RECAP Initiative and Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. For example, in EQT, the court concluded that a proposed class of all individuals who owned an interest in a gas estate was not ascertainable because the actual owners could be determined only through an individualized review of land records. 2002) (affirming without addressing the propriety of the striking of the expert testimony). Thus, a loan servicer could not have complied with Regulation X for a loss mitigation application submitted before January 10, 2014 because there was no regulation in effect with which to comply. From January 2014 to the present, the Robinsons have not pursued other loss mitigation options, such as a short sale. The Magistrate Judge ordered Nationstar to run those scripts and return the electronic data to the Robinsons. CFPB V. Nationstar - Frequently Asked Questions EQT Prod. 2d at 1366. McLean I, 595 F. Supp. Therefore, Nationstar was required to comply with section 1024.41 in processing it. The public policy interest at issue was one against "stirring up litigation or promoting litigating for the benefit of the promoter rather than for the benefit of the litigant or the public," an interest not implicated in the same manner by the fee arrangement with the particular expert witness in this case. Where a contingency fee arrangement for expert witnesses is not expressly prohibited by the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct, the Court declines to find that the fee arrangement here constituted an ethical violation. 1024.41(a). endstream endobj startxref . 2d 1360, 1366 (S.D. Robinson v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC et al, No. 2:2012cv00718 Since Regulation X explicitly does not require a loan servicer to provide a loan modification, the Robinsons' claim that they suffered damages because they did not receive a loan modification is not cognizable under the statute. The first of these prerequisites is that the class must exist and be "readily identifiable" or "ascertainable" by the court through "objective criteria." Under subsection (h), if a loan servicer receives a complete loss mitigation application more than 90 days before a foreclosure sale but then denies the application, the servicer must allow the borrower to appeal and must respond to the appeal within 30 days of receiving it. PDF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT Nationstar Mortgage LLC ("Nationstar"). Wirtz v. Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, 886 F.3d 713, 719-20 (8th Cir. Code Ann., Com. at 983 (quoting 12 U.S.C. "); cf. Nationstar also allegedly foreclosed on borrowers with pending forbearance applications after promising not to do so and failed to properly handle escrow payments and accounting for homeowners who were in Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceedings. . For purposes of ascertainability, the requirements of 12 C.F.R. 2605(f)(1)(B), a borrower cannot recover these additional damages "without first recovering actual damages." Id. The Robinsons assert that they have paid a total of $6,147.12 in unspecified fees to Nationstar. For a class action brought for violations of Regulation X, a servicer is liable for "actual damages to each of the borrowers in the class" and, upon a finding of a "pattern or practice" of noncompliance, statutory damages amounting to a maximum of $2,000 per class member up to a total of the lesser of $1 million or one percent of the servicer's net worth. Nationstar Mortgage Robocall Class Action Settlement Checks Mailed J. Since Mr. Robinson has the same goal as the other class members of establishing that Nationstar violated Regulation X with respect to his loan, he will adequately protect their interests. 1024.41(c)(1)(ii), which requires a servicer to respond to a loan modification application within 30 days of receipt of a complete loss mitigation application and provide notice of appeal rights; 12 C.F.R. Congress enacted RESPA to protect consumers from "unnecessarily high settlement charges caused by certain abusive practices" in the real estate mortgage industry, and to ensure "that consumers throughout the Nation are provided with greater and more timely information on the nature and costs of the settlement process." 12 U.S.C. PDF In the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit White setting Settlement Conference for 10/3/2023 at 9:00 AM in Chambers, Room 327, US Courthouse, . Robinson, 2015 WL 4994491, at *4 (citing Marchese v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 917 F. Supp. Nationstar Mortgage TCPA Class Action Settlement 1024.41(a). A code is entered in Remedy Star when the letter is sent. R. Civ. At different stages in the processing of a loan modification application, Nationstar employees enter certain codes into certain databases, and certain information can be stored and accessed through those applications. 2010). In contrast, the Court finds that there is a genuine issue of material fact whether the administrative costs and fees incurred by the Robinsons resulted from Nationstar's RESPA violations. Moreover, the possibility that some members of the class as defined by the Robinsons have not suffered any injury cognizable under RESPA or MCPA does not preclude certifying the class. J. Because of the manner in which class discovery was conducted, see supra part II.A, Oliver did not have access to all of Nationstar's data fields for the representative sample of loans. While it is not necessary to identify every class member at the time of certification for a class to be "ascertainable," a class cannot be certified if its membership must be determined through "individualized fact-finding or mini-trials." Deiter, 436 F.3d at 466-67. Rule 702 permits an expert to testify if the testimony "will help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue," "is based on sufficient facts or data," and "is the product of reliable principles and methods," and if the expert has "reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case." From this approach, Oliver concluded that for approximately 60 percent of the sampled loans, Nationstar failed to comply with the requirement that it inform the borrower of loss mitigation application determination within 30 days of receiving a complete application. See Broussard, 155 F.3d at 344. This argument runs contrary to the plain language of Nationstar's own procedures, which describe the application as "complete" based on the processor's determination, leading to the referral of the complete package to an underwriter. While she is trained as a bookkeeper, at the time of the Robinsons' 2014 application for a loan modification and in the subsequent months, Mrs. Robinson was not employed in any capacity. Thus, based on his report and experience, Oliver concludes that Nationstar "failed to comply" with Regulation X and that it is possible to "identify violations" of Regulation X "using the methodologies" he described, without the necessity of a file-by-file review. 15-05811, 2016 WL 3055901 (N.D. Cal. "[A]n evaluation of the merits to determine the strength of plaintiffs' case is not part of a Rule 23 analysis." 1024.41(c)(1)(ii), 1024.41(b)(1), the Court concludes that common computerized analysis will substantially advance the resolution of such claims, even if not entirely eliminating the need for reviewing certain specific file documents. From January 2012 to December 2016, the CFPB and 50 state attorneys general claim Nationstar, which is now doing business asMr. Cooper, engaged in a number of unlawful practices in handling mortgages following the Great Recession. Baez, 709 F. App'x at 983. The economic challenges and burdens that homeowners currently face are similar to the ones experienced following the Great Recession. On July 16, 2018, the Court affirmed the Magistrate Judge's ruling and required Nationstar to produce all outstanding "records subject to discovery orders." The court, however, did not explain how in the absence of any obligation to pay back to the Note, the plaintiff qualified as a "borrower" under the RESPA statute. Rather, the Court finds, based on the reasoning of Tagatz and Universal Athletic Sales, that the potential violation of an ethical rule does not itself make Oliver's testimony inadmissible. At a minimum, the question of when a loss mitigation application is "complete" under RESPA within the workflow of Nationstarwhether at the time of the processor's designation of the file as complete or at a later stageis a significant unresolved question of law and fact that would be common to all RESPA claims against Nationstar. See Stillmock, 385 F. App'x at 274 ("[T]here is no reasoned basis to conclude that the fact that an individual plaintiff can recover attorney's fees in addition to statutory damages of up to $1,000 will result in enforcement of [the Fair Credit Reporting Act] by individual actions of a scale comparable to the potential enforcement by way of class action."). Gunnells, 348 F.3d at 429 ("[T]he need for individualized proof of damages alone will not defeat class certification."). As a result, the Robinsons' claim that Nationstar violated certain Regulation X procedures with respect to their loan modification application and those of the class members. When combined with the state settlements, Nationstar is on the hook to pay a total of $91 million overall: $85 million to harmed consumers and $6 million in civil penalties. Court Description: OPINION AND ORDER - Based on the foregoing reasons, the defendants motion to dismiss (doc. 1024.41(f), (g), and (h), and Mr. Robinson's MCPA claim under sections 13-301 and 13-303. 2016) ("[F]ortuitous non-injury to a subset of class members does not necessarily defeat certification of the entire class, particularly as the district court is well situated to winnow out those non-injured members at the damages phase of the litigation, or to refine the class definition. Co v. Adair, 764 F.3d 347, 359-60 (4th Cir. Although Nationstar argues that Mr. Robinson has a conflict of interest because he wishes to avoid foreclosure and to delay payments on his mortgage, the record does not reflect that proposition. Between July 2010 and November 2013, the Robinsons submitted and Nationstar denied three applications for a loan modification under the Home Affordable Modification Program ("HAMP"). Lembach v. Bierman, 528 F. App'x 297 (4th Cir. While Demetrius Robinson did appeal Nationstar's March 15, 2014 offer of an in-house modification, the requirements of subsection (h) were not triggered because the offer was not a denial of a loan modification application. Id. at 359-60. Day to address discovery issues. 218. Id. MCC JR 530. P. 23(a)(1). See supra parts I.B.1, I.B.3, I.C.1. The company has already paid about $57.5 million in restitution to affected consumers, according to the CFPB. Md. McLean v. GMAC Mortg. Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez, 431 U.S. 395, 403 (1977))). The proposed settlement with the CFPB requires Nationstar to pay $73 million in restitution to affected borrowers, as well as a $1.5 million civil penalty to the agency. Before relating the facts relevant to the Motion for Class Certification, the Court will highlight the relevant procedural history affecting the record before the Court. To prepare his expert report, Oliver reviewed a randomly selected sample of 400 loans serviced by Nationstar in which a loan modification application was submitted. Certification will also be denied as to the claim under 12 C.F.R. A class action claimed Nationstar violated consumer protection laws in servicing class members' mortgage loans. See Keen, 2018 WL 4111938, at *5-6. 12) is GRANTED with respect to Count V and Count III against Nationstar; it is DENIED with respect to Counts I, II, and VI, and Count III against NSM. These events will be represented by discrete data points in Nationstar's databases, such that these violations may be proved through that data. R. Civ. 2605(f). A servicer that fails to comply with Regulation X is liable for actual damages and, upon a finding of a "pattern or practice" of non-compliance by the servicer, up to $2,000 in statutory damages. Ward, 595 F.3d at 180 (quoting Gunnells, 348 F.3d at 430). Ohio 2014). Compl. . Pia McAdams, a class member, objected to the settlement, arguing that the Likewise, he concluded that for approximately 53 percent of sampled loans, Nationstar failed to comply with the requirement of acknowledging receipt of the application within five days. Fed. As of November 22, about 2.8 million homeowners were in a forbearance plan, according to the latest research from the Mortgage Bankers Association. During discovery, Oliver revealed that his fee arrangement with the Robinsons includes a flat fee for his expert services, but that a portion of the fee is contingent on the certification of a class in this case. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a), the Court grants summary judgment if the moving party demonstrates that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact, and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Nationstar employees use four software applications and databases to store and track electronic information relating to loans: (1) Loan Services and Accounting Management System ("LSAMS"), Nationstar's primary loan servicing software, which contains data for loans, including the permanent records of the accounting history, communication logs, and letters documented with codes that were sent to the borrower; (2) Remedy Star, Nationstar's proprietary loss mitigation and loan modification management system, which, among other tasks, tracks the status and timeline of a loan modification and links to documents stored in FileNet; (3) LPS Desktop ("LPS"), an application which Nationstar uses to track and manage foreclosure processes and communicate with outside attorneys; and (4) FileNet, a platform that houses PDF images of documents, including letters sent to borrowers by Nationstar. Finally, while Nationstar presented arguments for why the Robinsons have not shown damages as to most of the asserted categories, it did not advance any argument for why the interest damages claimed by the Robinsons were not attributable to Nationstar's Regulation X violations and thus is not entitled to summary judgment on that issue.

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