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Kevin M. LaCroix
over 10 years ago
Corporate
Corporate Law Blog
FDIC Wins $168.8 Million Jury Verdict Against Former IndyMac Officers
On December 7, 2012, in a comprehensive victory for the FDIC in its capacity as receiver of the failed IndyMac bank, a jury in the Central District of California entered a verdict of $168.8 million in the FDIC's lawsuit against three former officers...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 12 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
FDIC Sues Failed Bank's Former Directors and Officers
If the lawsuit filed on Monday is any indication, the long-anticipated FDIC litigation against failed banks may have arrived. On November 1, 2010, the FDIC filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois against eleven former directors and officers...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
FDIC: Problem Institutions Decline, But Concerns Remain
The FDIC's latest Quarterly Banking Profile for the period ending December 31, 2011, released February 28, 2012 ( here ), reflects a generally improving banking landscape and a continuing reduction in the number of problem institutions. But though...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
Number of Bank Failures Finally Starting to Decline?
When the FDIC released its Quarterly Banking Profile for the fourth quarter 2010, it included a statement from FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair that the agency believes "the number of failures peaked in 2010." However, at least through the end of...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
As Banks Fail, Will Insurance Coverage Lawsuits Follow?
One of the many distinctive traits of the litigation that surrounded the S&L crisis in the late 80s and early 90s was the plethora of lawsuits between the FDIC (and other federal banking regulators), on the one hand, and the failed banks' insurers...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
Is the FDIC Ramping Up Its Failed Bank Litigation?
Though the current bank failure wave has been rolling for several years now and though there have been over 425 bank closures during that period , the much anticipated FDIC failed bank litigation has been slower to gain momentum - that is, perhaps...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
Two Questions: Bank Closures Winding Down? FDIC WaMu Lawsuit Settled?
Whether the process is just winding down for the year or the process is actually winding down for good, the bank closure rate has recently fallen off dramatically. The FDIC has not taken over any banks for three weeks straight, with no bank closure...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
Meanwhile, The Number of Failed Banks Continues to Mount
Early on during the current wave of bank failures, there were some pretty reckless predictions about how many banks might fail - indeed, some commentators suggested as many as 1,000 banks might ultimately fail, a prediction that I disputed at the...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 12 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
FDIC Sues Three WaMu Execs and Their Wives, Settles with Outside Directors
As recently as this past Monday, commentators were grumbling that the FDIC is moving too slowly in pursue claims against former directors and officers of failed banks. The FDIC has responded in dramatic fashion with a March 16, 2011 lawsuit filing...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
FDIC Files Suit Against Former Haven Trust Directors and Officers
On July 14, 2011, the FDIC filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Georgia against 15 former directors and officers of Haven Trust Bank of Duluth, Georgia. This suit is the ninth the FDIC has filed as part of the current bank failure wave and the...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 12 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
Failed Bank-Related Activity Looming and Other Web Notes
The lead article in the November 17, 2010 Wall Street Journal reported that the FDIC is conducting 50 criminal investigations of directors, officers and employees of failed banks. Given that (as of November 19, 2010) 314 banks have failed since January...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 9 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
Banks: Forget Too Big to Fail, How About Too Small to Succeed?
According to the FDIC’s latest Quarterly Banking Profile ( here ), as of September 30, 2013, there were 6,891 federally insured banking institutions, down from 6,940 at the end of the second quarter and down from 7,141 as of September 30, 2012....
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 11 years ago
Banking and Finance
Banking & Finance Law Blog
A Time-Ripened Tale of Toxic Assets, a Corporate Spin-Out and a Failed Bank
Guaranty Bank of Austin, Texas's August 21, 2009 closure is the fourth-largest bank failure during the current wave of bank failures and the tenth largest bank failure in U.S. history. The bank's failure, which came just 15 months after its...
LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Litigation
News Headlines
Washington Mutual Settles Class Action Lawsuit For $208.5 Million
LOS ANGELES - (AP) Washington Mutual Inc. and its fellow defendants have agreed to pay $208.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from the lender's collapse in 2008, the biggest U.S. bank failure in history. The defendants and lead plaintiff...
LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff
over 12 years ago
Litigation
News Headlines
FDIC Targets Failed Bank Execs With Legal Action
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (AP) Federal regulators have authorized legal action against more than 50 executives and directors of collapsed U.S. banks as they seek to recover about $1 billion in losses. A spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
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