Wells Fargo auto insurance News

Wells Fargo Settles Auto Insurance Scam for $385 Million

Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay at least $385 million to customers who say they were signed up for auto insurance without their knowledge or consent when they took out a car loan. Terms of the proposed settlement, which …

Wells Fargo CEO Grilled at Congressional Hearing Probing Customer Abuse Scandal

Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday pressed Wells Fargo & Co Chief Executive Tim Sloan for proof the bank has put a string of consumer abuse scandals behind it at a tense congressional hearing that saw Sloan firmly on the …

Wells Fargo Seeks to Limit Payout for Faulty Auto Insurance Plan

Wells Fargo & Co. is fighting to shut some customers out of a sweeping plan to compensate around 600,000 drivers it pushed into car insurance they did not need, according to court documents and a source familiar with the effort. …

Lawsuit Says Wells Fargo Executives Knew About Insurance Overcharges

Wells Fargo & Co. executives were warned that an auto insurance plan could be overcharging customers four years before the bank scrapped the program, according to a complaint released by a judge this week. Several executives, including then-General Counsel James …

Wells Fargo Says Repaying Auto Insurance Customers to Take Until 2020

Wells Fargo & Co. will not finish paying back the estimated 600,000 customers it wrongly charged for auto insurance until at least 2020, the bank said in a letter to U.S. lawmakers seen by Reuters. U.S. regulators slapped Wells Fargo …

Wells Fargo Must Do More to Repay Cheated Auto Insureds, Says U.S. Comptroller

Wells Fargo & Co. has not convinced U.S. regulators it is doing enough to repay 600,000 drivers who were wrongly pushed into buying auto insurance, a leading bank regulator said on Tuesday. “We are not comfortable where we are with …

Regulators Reject Wells Fargo’s Plan to Repay Insurance Customers: Reuters

U.S. regulators have rejected Wells Fargo & Co.’s plan to repay customers who were pushed into unnecessary auto insurance, telling the bank it must do more to ensure it has found and compensated every affected driver, three sources familiar with …

Wells Fargo Facing Possible Record Fine for Insurance, Mortgage Sales Abuses

The top U.S. watchdog for consumer finance is seeking a record fine against Wells Fargo & Co that could exceed several hundred million dollars for auto insurance and mortgage lending abuses, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans. …

Senators Quiz Wells Fargo CEO, Express Doubt Bank Will Change Ways

U.S. senators slammed Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Tim Sloan on Tuesday for his handling of a massive sales practices scandal at the third-largest American bank and challenged him to allow aggrieved customers to sue. Wells Fargo has disclosed …

Wells Fargo CEO to Face Senators Over Consumer Lending, Auto Insurance Sales Scandals

Wells Fargo & Co. CEO Tim Sloan will be questioned about sales practices, mischarging customers for auto insurance, and complaints about mortgage fees at the bank’s consumer lending unit when he testifies before U.S. senators on Tuesday. The U.S.’s third-largest …