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Attorney Tom Hudson discusses the Federal Trade Commission's recent settlement orders requiring several dealers to stop running ads in which they promise to pay off a consumer's trade-in no matter what the consumer owes on the vehicle.
Read More →Attorney Tom Hudson addresses a few of the rumors that have been circulating about potential actions of the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Read More →Attorney Tom Hudson discusses a recent court decision in the housing finance area that could be useful in the auto financing arena as well.
Read More →Attorney Tom Hudson examines an appellate case in which the term “as is” did not protect the dealer from allegations of fraud and violation of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.
Read More →Attorney Tom Hudson discusses an enforcement action against a Florida dealership dealing with, among other things, the dealership’s alleged practice of posting false reviews of the dealership online.
Read More →Recent fraudulent emails to dealerships purporting to be from the FTC prompt attorney Tom Hudson to issue a word of caution to dealers: Make sure any "authorities" who approach the dealership are the real thing before taking any action.
Read More →The best first line of defense against class action suits is the practice of requiring consumers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements as part of the car purchase and finance transactions they enter into. Attorney Thomas Hudson provides an example of how the use of arbitration agreements saved the day when the class action lawyers came calling.
Read More →Dealers who ignore rules and regulations they’re required by law to comply with and instead hope to fly under the radar unnoticed by the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau might want to ask themselves the following questions posed by Attorney Tom Hudson in this article.
Read More →Attorney Thomas Hudson poses two scenarios about how dealers comply with the Safeguarding Rule. One scenario is about a dealer who initially had good intentions but allowed compliance cobwebs to build up, the other is about a dealer who implements and maintains a compliant process.
Read More →Attorney Tom Hudson discusses how best practices in some dealerships can be prohibited in other dealerships due to state laws. One example he mentions is bird-dog programs.
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