{"id":1343,"date":"2024-06-14T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sustains-putative-class-action-against-usaa-over-late-fee-interest\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T06:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:32:59","slug":"judge-sustains-putative-class-action-against-usaa-over-late-fee-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sustains-putative-class-action-against-usaa-over-late-fee-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sustains Putative Class Action Against USAA Over Late Fee Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Judge Sustains Putative Class Action Against USAA Over Late Fee Interest &#8211; After the United Services Automobile Association and its subsidiaries agreed to reimburse thousands of policyholders more than $8 million for inappropriately assessed late fees, a federal judge in Maryland is now allowing a separate matter to proceed, in which policyholders seek more than $7 million worth of interest on those improperly retained charges.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte of the District of Maryland denied USAA\u2019s motion to dismiss plaintiff Walter Black III\u2019s claims for\u00a0money had and received and unjust enrichment, ruling the plaintiff pleaded facts clearly to suggest USAA \u201cknew full well that they had the use of the late fees,\u201d and \u201cthey understood the time-value of the fees\u201d and their interest-bearing potential, according to\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/17Nq4W7xuypd9e9XWXLpzCi1LK8kbKLll\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">June 11 opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Sustains Putative Class Action Against USAA Over Late Fee Interest &#8211; After the United Services Automobile Association and its subsidiaries agreed to reimburse thousands of policyholders more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,650,717,968,423,1998,1905,1903,1621,1904],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-action","tag-class","tag-fee","tag-interest","tag-judge","tag-judge-sustains-putative-class-action-against-usaa-over-late-fee-interest","tag-late","tag-putative","tag-sustains","tag-usaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}