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Credit Alliance Group, The Nation?s Largest Financial Services Company Specializing in Debt Negotiation, Has Hit a Major Home Run with Their Professional Edition

Credit Alliance Group, The Nation’s Largest Financial Services Company Specializing in Debt Negotiation, Has Hit a Major Home Run with Their Professional Edition

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 28, 2011

Credit Alliance Group, the nation’s largest financial services company specializing in debt negotiation, has hit a major home run with their Professional Edition. CAG founder and CEO, Shane Garner said that his goal has always been to help people make their desire to become debt free their reality. He believes one of the keys is developing a partnership with his clients. While he maintains a team of the top certified debt arbitrators in the business, he also gets the clients involved in the process by educating them on the do’s and don’ts of personal finances.

“I can settle their debt all day long,” Mr. Garner said, “but if they don’t learn to deal differently with their money than they did in the past, they will be headed for a repeat performance. I want to give them the tools to empower themselves with their finances.”

Working in the corporate headquarters, which are located on the 58th floor, high atop the Comerica Bank Tower in Dallas, TX, Maggie Tarte, Receptionist remarked “I am moved by his passion for people. He truly cares about his clients and his staff. He knows every employee by name and his door is always open. “Having just celebrated her first anniversary with the company, Ms. Tarte went onto say how much she has learned over the past year” Mr. Garner has made sure all of us know and understand every detail of our services. When I started, I didn’t really know how to read a credit report; now I can read one in my sleep!”

The Professional Edition combines aggressive debt management with financial educational components. While he has enjoyed immense success in helping thousands of people become debt free, Mr. Garner felt that something was missing. That “something” was personal finance education. “My father always told me, ‘Give a man a fish and he can eat today. Teach a man to fish, and he can eat for a life time.’ Partnering with Credit Services Today has been one of our best decisions,” Shane Garner stated.

“The services they provide are invaluable to our customers,” said Anthony Kell, Director of Enrollment Services. “Our clients are more proactive in their program. For the majority, it is much more than just making a monthly payment. It’s about learning how not to repeat their financial mistakes.“

Lucinda Ramos, Senior Manager of Credit Services Today explained their features. “First we provide Debt Validation on each enrolled account. This is a legal recourse provided to every consumer in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The creditors are required to show proper documentation that the debt is indeed the clients. If they cannot provide us with that, then the debt becomes uncollectable and is removed from their credit report. It is not our intent to be dishonorable. You would be amazed at how many people have the same name or worse, they have Zombie Debt and don’t know it.”

Zombie Debt is an account that has passed the Statue of Limitations and is sold to collection agencies for pennies on the dollar. The agency then starts collection proceedings. If the consumer makes even a partial payment, it starts the clock running again. Validation can eliminate this. Also included is Daily Credit Monitoring Assistance. Clients choose which credit bureau’s they want to monitor. They are then taught to read their credit report and discern the red flags. They also learn how to dispute an item on the report they believe it to be inaccurate. The “icing on the cake” is the complimentary enrollment into http://www.Mint.com this is personal finance software that is owned by Intuit, the makers of Quicken and Turbo Tax.

“Our clients learn how to create a budget, set financial goals, and pay their bills all from one site and the privacy of their home. I want to get them to incorporate healthy fiscal habits while they are in the program,” Mr. Garner added. “This gives them the best opportunity to lead a financially controlled life after they complete the program.”

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Consumer Class Action Filed Amidst Largest Pet Food Recall in U.S. History

Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2007

Yesterday, the law firms Wexler Toriseva Wallace LLP and Kershaw Cutter & Ratinoff LLP filed the first California class action complaint amidst the largest pet food recall in U.S. history. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide, alleging that Menu Foods, Inc., Menu Foods Income Fund, and Menu Foods Midwest Corp. (“Menu Foods”) manufactured and sold poisoned pet food products, and failed to inform customers that these products were toxic, and potentially lethal, to their pets. The lawsuit seeks recovery of all financial loss associated with the recall, including veterinary bills and food replacement costs. The class action complaint was filed in Los Angeles federal court (Case No. CV 07-01958 GHK (AJWx).

Menu Foods has recalled approximately 60 million containers of pet food and close to 100 different brands of “cuts and gravy” (pet food consisting of pieces of meat in gravy) style dog and cat food, including popular labels such as Iams, Eukanuba, and Science Diet. The lawsuit alleges that pets eating Menu Foods products have been stricken with severe kidney disorders and have demonstrated symptoms such as dehydration, diarrhea, loss of appetite, increased thirst, lethargy, and vomiting. Many pets have died. The lawsuit further alleges that pet owners around the country have spent as much as several thousand dollars each in veterinary expenses to treat their pets, sometimes over multiple visits, for illness relating to kidney failure. Still other pet owners have incurred additional costs relating to the death of their pets, including costs for euthanasia, burial, and cremation.

The complaint alleges that significant harm to pets and the expenses incurred by their owners could have been avoided had Menu Foods been more diligent and taken more responsibility for informing the public and regulatory agencies about the dangers associated with its products. The lawsuit alleges that consumers informed Menu Foods that its products were harmful to pets , and potentially lethal, as early as late-February. Yet, the complaint alleges Menu Foods responded to these concerns by first conducting its own tests, waiting until as many as 1 in 6 animal subjects had died – seven animals – before informing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its findings and announcing a nationwide recall to the public.

The lawsuit alleges that since announcing the recall, consumers have been unable to reach Menu Foods’ customer representatives over advertised toll free numbers. Instead, many customers are getting busy signals and message recordings.

According to Mark J. Tamblyn, a partner in Wexler Toriseva Wallace’s Sacramento office, “thousands of consumers are frantically seeking medical attention for their pets, and many pets have died. So far, Menu Foods’ management of the crisis has been ineffective. Our firm is dedicated to ensuring an adequate response by the company, and obtaining relief for consumers.”

Veterinary professionals are recommending that all animals known to have ingested recalled foods be examined immediately. The law firms are also urging consumers who possess recalled food or suspect their pet has consumed any of the recalled food to consider the recommendations recently provided by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). This information is available at http://www.avma.org/press/releases/070319_petfoodrecall.asp.

Wexler Toriseva Wallace LLP (http://www.wtwlaw.us) is a national leader in prosecuting class actions and other complex litigation on behalf of consumer and business clients in state and federal courts throughout the United States. The firm is based in Chicago, Illinois and maintains additional offices in California and West Virginia and an affiliate office Beijing, China.

Contact: Mark J. Tamblyn (916) 568-1100.

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Kershaw Cutter & Ratinoff LLP (http://www.kcrlegal.com) represents a wide range of individuals and businesses in class actions and other complex litigation in state and federal courts across the nation. This firm is based in Sacramento, California. Contact: Stuart C. Talley (916) 448-9800.

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Nation’s largest class action lawsuit certified against Wal-Mart

(PRWEB) June 23, 2004

As many as 1.6 million current and former female employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may be represented by the class action lawsuit that was certified by a federal judge for sex discrimination. The largest private civil rights case in U.S. history, the suit alleges Wal-Mart created a system that pays its female workers less than males in comparable jobs, as well as passing women for key promotions on a frequent basis.

The U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins took nine months before deciding if the class action lawsuit should be expanded to include all women who work or have worked at Wal-Mart’s 3,500 stores nationwide since 1998. Three years prior, when the lawsuit was first filed, Wal-Mart tried to limit the parameters of the ruling. In September, Wal-Mart company attorneys claimed Wal-Mart stores operate with so much autonomy that mini-class action lawsuits targeting each outlet would be more appropriate.

Jenkins’ ruling was based on the 1964 congressional act passed during the civil rights movement that prohibits sex discrimination. The Judge also believed the plaintiffs presented sufficient anecdotal evidence warranting a class-action trial. The ruling could allow for the lawyers representing the women included in the class action lawsuit to pursue punitive damages, back pay, and other compensation.    

So far, the Wal-Mart case has already generated 1.25 million pages of evidence and 200 sworn depositions. Wal-Mart plans on appealing the ruling, and no trial date has been set. Wal-Mart is the nation’s largest private employer.

Thoughts on the Largest Class Action in the History of Mankind by a California Class Action Attorney

Thoughts on the Largest Class Action in the History of Mankind by a California Class Action Attorney

This is a class action not only for all the residents of California from San Diego, CA to Orange County, from Santa Barbara to Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Huntington Beach, from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Costa Mesa, and Anaheim, Irvine, and Santa Ana to Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Temecula, Murrieta, Palm Desert and Palm Springs. This is a class action for, well, almost everyone who has a pulse.

No, this isn’t a press release about a class action our law firm has filed. Yes, we are class action attorneys, and class action lawyers in California. Yes, we do class actions. But this one is the one that we simply think about whenever we hear more about the global financial market meltdown.

Let’s start with the proposition that we, meaning you and I, didn’t start the global meltdown. Let’s also keep in mind that if anyone is the most responsible, it was our leaders in Congress and the secretaries of the various government departments and agencies, who let easy money be waived in front of our noses while at the same time telling us that if we all didn’t buy homes, even homes we couldn’t afford, we weren’t partaking in the American dream. 

So lots of us bought homes, and many of us shouldn’t have. The rest of us bought stock, because we were also told to invest in America. We did. That hasn’t worked out so well either.

Let’s also assume that the Europeans, and all the people in the rest of the world were doing just fine, perhaps also buying a little too much, but otherwise were fine until our financial cold made the rest of the world sick.

So now we have the basis for the identifiable class. As a class action attorney in California, this is what you look for.  It’s basically anyone who has lost money on real estate or in the stock market around the world.

Add to that, everyone in the world who will now painfully be hit with a lesser way of life filled with rising oil prices due to the lower value of their currencies, fewer jobs, less government services, less valuable pensions, and just for the heck of it, higher prices for a latte or cappuccino. For anyone married, you can add more family arguments about money. For anyone single, less opportunities to meet someone because no one has any money to go out. And if you do have a date, how romantic is that fast food meal going to be since you can’t afford to take someone or be taken to a steakhouse?

Now that all we can afford is fast food and macaroni and cheese, we can also add our shorter life spans, having to buy larger sized clothes, less self esteem, poorer health and rising health costs. 

I think I’m safe to say that the damages for this class action are up to at least a quadrillion zillion dollars in damages.  A dream case for a California class action lawyer.

So why haven’t we filed the class action lawsuit yet? We’re still looking for a defendant who can pay it, but since the U.S. Treasury is heavily in debt, we’re still looking at prospects. 

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Largest Lawsuit Settlement Funding Cases

Largest Lawsuit Settlement Funding Cases

If you have been searching for settlement funding chances are you’ve heard of LawLeaf. You may have applied with several other companies only to find out they can’t provide funding for over a certain dollar amount.

LawLeaf an online provider of lawsuit funding services has no limit on the amount of money they can get for their clients. Over the last 6 months, the company has seen a major increase in larger  requests for pre settlement loans. These request include loans for ,000,000, ,000,000 and even ,000,000+ in non recourse funding.

What are the cases that generally are approved for million dollar pre settlement funding?

Business’s and individuals alike file lawsuits against major corporations and companies each day in the United States. Some of the more common lawsuits include:

copyright infringement breach of contract patent infringement securities & financial fraud civil rights products liability

These are a sample of cases that can bring in the largest pre settlement loans the industry provides. These types of loans are referred to as commercial litigation loans.

When a plaintiff (individual or company) enters into a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a company, chances are the lawsuit will last for several years before a verdict is reached. When a person or company has financial obligations at stake they may request a pre settlement loan while waiting for closure.

Commercial litigation financing is on the rise throughout the United States. When a company sues another company there is a good chance they may be having cash flow problems which is directly related to the lawsuit. A company may need a cash advance to help make payroll or to keep their doors open. This may require a company to request several million dollars to do so. When an individual requests millions in settlement funding they may be looking to recoup money lost in investments or development costs for a product that was stolen.

There are a variety of different types of commercial dispute claims filed each day in the United States and those claims can be in the hundreds of millions. No matter the size of the lawsuit, when both an individual or company is searching for a multi-million dollar lawsuit loan, they are turning to LawLeaf for help.

If you are searching for a pre settlement loan over a million dollars begin by applying with LawLeaf today. LawLeaf handles both small and large lawsuit cash advances for clients throughout the United States.

For additional information on commercial litigation financing, visit LawLeaf today.

Largest crowd ever at RMR witnesses history at Salt Lake Nitro Jam finale

Largest crowd ever at RMR witnesses history at Salt Lake Nitro Jam finale

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (June 19, 2010) – When the Nitro Jam series traveled to Rocky Mountain Raceways for the first time in the spring of 2009 to test a brand new format little did the IHRA, or RMR, know it would turn into one of the largest motorsports events in Utah history. Fans poured into the beautiful Rocky Mountain Raceways facility Saturday night during the annual “Night of Fire,” some …

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Home Computers Equal Lower Test Scores

An anonymous reader writes “Politicians and education activists have long sought to eliminate the ‘digital divide’ by guaranteeing universal access to home computers, and in some cases to high-speed Internet service. But a Duke University study finds these efforts would actually widen the achievement gap in math and reading scores. Students in grades five through eight, particularly those from …

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