TAKEPLACE: QUICKEN LOAN INC. SINKS TO NEW LOW

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

QUICKEN LOAN INC. SINKS TO NEW LOW

A West Virginia judge has slapped online mortgage giant Quicken Loans Inc. with more than $2.7 million in punitive damages and legal costs after finding the lender had defrauded a borrower by misleading her about her loan and using an inflated property appraisal.

Ohio County (W.Va.) Circuit Judge Arthur Recht awarded the borrower just under $2.17 million in punitive damages. He also ordered that Quicken pay her attorneys nearly $600,000 in legal fees and costs. In a ruling last year, Recht had called Quicken’s conduct “unconscionable.” PUBLICINTEGRITY

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