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It seeks full restitution for all the consumers impacted by the allegedly deceptive practices and for the court to order Mariner to cease charging customers for the add-on products. Pennsylvania was joined in the lawsuit by the attorneys general in Washington, D.C., and New Jersey, Oregon, Utah and Washington. “Products consumers never asked for and often didn’t realize they’d been signed up for were tacked on to a kind of loan that we already know people struggle to pay back,” Shapiro said in a statement. Mariner charged Pennsylvanians $19.5 million for add-ons from 2015 to 2018 and charged another $8 million in interest for these premiums in the same period, the state attorney general said. The lawsuit does not identify whether the borrower was from Pennsylvania. District Court in Philadelphia details stories of Mariner employees engaging in deceptive practices during the loan process, including convincing a disabled Army combat veteran deployed four times to take almost $3,000 in add-on charges when obtaining a $4,081 loan. The eight-count, 104-page lawsuit filed in U.S. Mariner has branches in New Kensington, Hempfield, North Huntingdon, Bridgeville, Cranberry, Washington, Uniontown and Butler. Pennsylvania is seeking more than $27 million in restitution from a finance company the state claims added hidden charges to loans and interest from those fees over three years through what it claims are “predatory” practices, according to a multi-state lawsuit the attorney general filed with four other states and Washington, D.C.Īttorney General Josh Shapiro on Tuesday claimed Mariner Finance of Baltimore, a consumer lending company, committed widespread consumer law violations by adding hidden costs that consumers either did not know about or never agreed to purchase.
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