LENDER LIABILITY

"Lenders increasingly have been sued by debtors and others for damages
allegedly resulting from lender misconduct in revoking credit, foreclosing on
security, administering a loan, refusing to extend credit.
Liability theories include:
breach of contract, fraud, excessive control (e.g. interference with the
debtor's contractual relations with others), negligence, economic duress
(which may make a loan settlement voidable), breach of fiduciary duties or
implied duties of good faith and fair dealing, and even statutory bases such
as state consumer fraud legislation and federal environmental, bankruptcy,
securities, RICO, and tax laws."