Finance companies can continue to make lending decisions based on information about medical bills contained in consumer credit reports, a judge rules.

The three national credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion — announced last year that they would remove medical collections under $500 from U.S. consumer credit reports. The CFPB ...

Texas judge rules CFPB lacked authority to bar medical debt from credit files Decision preserves lenders’ ability to consider ...

Individual states could now enact laws to remove medical billing from credit reports, and 15 states have already done so.

Americans' unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week annulled a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such ...

Congress should not have created the CFPB. Multiple federal agencies already existed to enforce consumer protection laws. The ...

The top official overseeing fair lending at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was placed on administrative leave, ...

Patricia Brum of Snell & Wilmer LLP discusses the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic ...

News about Consumer Protection, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three ...

The FTC has broad consumer-protection authority to bring enforcement actions against unfair or deceptive business practices.