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Hazardous materials come with specific instructions to reduce the risk of injury. Unfortunately, careless handling can cause an unsuspecting victim to be injured, which is why attorneys familiar with toxic torts are hired to demand compensation.
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New York’s Poor Unable To Properly Defend Themselves
The Executive Deputy Attorney General of New York, Martin Mack, has raised the issue of bullying and scare tactics being used in relation to lenders and debt collectors in the city. The Office of Court Administration recently released figures that showed a dramatic increase in the amount of residential foreclosure filings in the city; the number has increased from 22,601 in 2005 to 35,937 in 2010.The reason behind the massive increase is said to be a combination of both the mortgage crisis and the lack of legal protection offered to the city’s poor. Mack raised the issue and explained that many of the residents that are facing foreclosure (some 44%) do not have access to adequate legal protection because they cannot afford it and the state is so clogged up with foreclosure and civil court hearings that they are unable to offer it in some cases.
This has led to an increase in lenders essentially bullying their residents with fast tracking the foreclosure process and, more often than not, the correct paperwork is not always filled out and the correct documentation is not present as the mortgage lenders assume that the borrowers will not have proper legal protection.
There are some 20% of New York residents currently living below the poverty line and unable to seek legal help and this doesn’t include the additional 15% that live just outside the city itself. Over 2 million New Yorkers are currently attempting to defend themselves in civil court trials because they don’t have access to adequate legal aid.
30.09.2011. 17:22