WASHINGTON, D.C.— U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness President and CEO David Hirschmann and U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform President Lisa Rickard today issued the following statement regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Denver field hearing and its proposed regulatory framework on arbitration:
“A CFPB ban on pre-dispute arbitration helps only one group: class action plaintiffs’ lawyers. Consumers will have fewer avenues and a longer process for resolving their disputes. The CFPB’s own study concludes consumers walk away from class actions with about 30 bucks while each trial lawyer walks away with a million.
“Consumers should also not be fooled by rhetoric claiming to ban only certain types of consumer arbitration. A ban on ‘pre-dispute’ arbitration is effectively a ban on all consumer arbitration. If a CFPB rule eliminates class action waivers, thus opening the litigation floodgates, then arbitration for most consumers will likely disappear.”
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