By John Waller, Wooden McLaughlin LLP
Lesson. A mortgage loan servicer can achieve summary judgment in a RESPA qualified written request case if the borrower fails to establish that the statutory violations caused any actual damage.
Case cite.
Moore v. Wells Fargo, 908 F.3d 1050 (7th Cir. 2018)
Legal issue. Whether a borrower can recover RESPA-based damages “when the only harm alleged is that the response to the borrower’s qualified written request did not contain information … to help him fight a state-court mortgage foreclosure he had already lost.”
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