State Claim Partially Dismissed In Borrower’s Foreclosure Counsel Fees Countersuit

(November 3, 2023, 7:12 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A borrower’s counterclaim that the assignee of his mortgage loan and the loan’s servicer violated the Washington Consumer Protection Act (CPA) when rolling attorney fees from the borrower’s earlier Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) case into his loan payoff amount was “clearly inadequate” and could not be cured, a federal judge in Washington ruled, partially granting a motion to dismiss by those two counterdefendants....