Eufaula native Tom Methvin, managing shareholder and president of Beasley Allen (a Montgomery-based law firm) was recently featured in the Montgomery Advertiser.

Barbour County could be back in the national tort spotlight this summer when plaintiff lawyer Jere Beasley and his firm take pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to court over its arthritis drug Celebrex.

Though it was taken off the market in September, it could be a while before the effects of the drug Vioxx have worn off.

After Martha Lawler lost her job at Atlantic Bell in 1993, she fell behind on her house payments. Then her troubles really started.

WASHINTON – In order to combat predatory lending, Fannie Mae said it will stop purchasing subprime mortgages with mandatory arbitration clauses and will prohibit prepayment penalties longer then three years. The move is an extension of Fannie’s American Dream Commitment plan, which focus…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freddie Mac said on Thursday it would no longer invest in mortgages that contain a provision that forces unwitting consumers to give up their right to sue their lender.

WASHINGTON – In an enforcement action Thursday against a Texas bank, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency became the first federal bank regulator to cite “unfair” loan terms to crack down on predatory lending.

With the filing deadline fast approaching, thousands of mortgage customers in Florida have yet to claim their share of a $23 million predatory-lending settlement with finance giant Household International, Inc., state officials say.

In Montgomery, Alabama, Ben and Lula Johnson could lose their house, CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.

Tens of thousands of customers of a Household International unit have been excluded from the lender’s multimillion-dollar payment to settle claims of abusive lending practices, consumer experts said Thursday. Although the settlement covers at least 300,000 Household customers nationwide, the l…