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15 Feb 2017, 11:32 am
The FTC stated that in 2016, it brought or resolved 12 debt collection cases that included the following: Three actions involving “phantom debt collection” in which the defendants were charged with such activities as selling portfolios of fake payday loans used by debt collectors to get people to pay on debts they did not owe, threatening consumers to collect debts they did not owe, and attempting to… [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 7:54 am
The case involves collections by “special counsel,” lawyers the state of Ohio has hired to collect debts owed to the it. [read post]
6 Nov 2024, 2:23 pm
Today, the Rosenthal Act prohibits debt collectors from engaging in unfair or deceptive debt collection acts or practices when collecting consumer debt. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 10:46 am
The CFPB issued its long-awaited final debt collection rule today. [read post]
27 May 2014, 7:51 pm
Somebody has sneaked some terrible legislation into a provision of the EXPIRE Act which, if approved, would require the IRS to hire outside private debt collection (PDC) firms to collect past due taxes. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:00 am
There’s no doubt that many debt collection practices involve aggressive and unseemly tactics used to collect credit card and other unpaid debts, and, as a result, Congress stepped in to curb these practices by passing the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”). [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 6:34 am
We then discuss compliance and licensing issues under District of Columbia, California, Utah, and New York debt collection laws and the Wyoming “debt buyer” licensing requirement. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 4:09 pm
Mann Bracken, one of the country's largest debt collection firms, suddenly went out of business this week. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 12:30 pm
The District Court of Maryland ordered a stay on over 3,800 debt collection cases filed by LVNV and Resurgent Capital Services. [read post]
Mass. SJC Holds Mass. Debt Collection Regs Apply to Creditors that Auto Dial or Don’t Leave Messages
27 Jun 2018, 9:45 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently held that Massachusetts debt collection regulations, which limit how often a creditor may attempt to contact a debtor via telephone in order to collect a debt, apply to creditors that use automatic dialing devices or voluntarily decide not… Brady Hermann [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 2:18 pm
New York Senate Bill 691 and Senate Bill 2239 would completely extinguish the right to collect debt arising from a consumer… Eric Rosenkoetter [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 3:18 pm
The District Court of Maryland dismissed 314 Sunshine Financial Group debt collection cases against Maryland residents. [read post]
9 May 2012, 7:02 am
” He also indicated that the CFPB intends to look not only at the collection practices of third party debt collectors and debt buyers but that it also intends to look at debt collection practices used by original creditors collecting their own debts (presumably using the CFPB’s authority to prohibit unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices since original creditors aren’t subject to the Fair Debt… [read post]
11 Nov 2021, 7:39 am
New rule applies to debt collectors Importantly, the FDCPA applies only to “debt collectors” which the law defines as any person who regularly collects, or attempts to collect, consumer debts for another person or institution or uses some name other than its own when collecting its own consumer debts. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 2:30 pm
Last July, in anticipation of convening a SBREFA panel for the CFPB’s debt collection rulemaking, the CFPB issued an outline of the proposals it is considering. [read post]
25 May 2012, 2:30 am
Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) recently introduced H.R. 5794, the “Fair Debt Collection Practices Clarification Act of 2012. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 8:04 am
The FTC has sent a letter to the CFPB summarizing the FTC’s debt collection activities in 2015. [read post]
25 May 2016, 8:56 pm
A Baltimore jury has awarded more than $38.6 million in compensation to debtors who had paid less than a tenth of that amount to LVNV Funding LLC, a then-unlicensed debt-collection company. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 11:29 am
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit yesterday issued an opinion that should serve as a warning to lawyers involved in debt collection: be careful what stationery you use. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 9:02 pm
Why Is Debt Collection Done via Text? [read post]
