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The term clawback or claw back refers to any money or benefits that have been given out, but are required to be returned (clawed back) due to special circumstances or events, such as the monies having been received as the result of a financial crime, or where there is a clawback provision in the executive compensation contract. [1] [2]
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; Long title: An Act to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end "too big to fail", to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes.
Consumer interests can also serve consumers, consistent with economic efficiency, but this topic is treated in competition law. Consumer protection can also be asserted via non-government organizations and individuals as consumer activism. Efforts made for the protection of consumer's rights and interests are: The right to satisfaction of basic ...
The Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA) is a 1994 amendment to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) that protects consumers from predatory mortgage lending. Expanded significantly in 2010 ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Walmart and work scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers that are part of the discounter's gig program to use ...
Ruth Madoff's combined assets with her husband had a net worth of between $823 million and $826 million.She had $92.6 million in assets listed in her own name: [9] the $7 million penthouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side; an $11 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida; a three-bedroom apartment in Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera valued at $1.5 million; $45 million in municipal bonds and $17 ...
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–67 (text), 109 Stat. 737 (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 U.S.C.) ("PSLRA") implemented several substantive changes in the United States that have affected certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation, and awards fees ...
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Pub. L. 95-109; 91 Stat. 874, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1692 –1692p, approved on September 20, 1977 (and as subsequently amended), is a consumer protection amendment, establishing legal protection from abusive debt collection practices, to the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as Title VIII of that Act.