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NJ Appellate Division Finds No Private Right of Action for Debt Purchaser’s Alleged Failure to Obtain State License

Troutman Sanders

In 2010, the defendant purchased the account and placed it with a law firm for collection. After receiving letters from the law firm, the plaintiff set up a payment plan, which she completed in 2013.

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CFPB Reaches Settlement With Debt Collector Over Deceptive Practices

Collection Industry News

Last week, the CFPB issued a Consent Order against a New Jersey based debt-collection agency (Agency) over allegations that the Agency regularly violated the FDCPA and the CFPA in the course of their collection activity.

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Medical Debt Collection Harms Patient Finances

Collection Industry News

Marcott was assisted by ABC for Health, a nonprofit, public interest law firm in Madison. In a recent report reviewing 5,023 lawsuits to collect unpaid medical bills by five health systems in Wisconsin from 2017 to 2019, the firm found that health systems were always represented by attorneys, but less than 1% of patients were.

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Compliance Digest – October 28

Account Recovery

WHAT THIS MEANS, FROM CHUCK DODGE OF HUDSON COOK: This decision is a mixed one for the defendant, a law firm. The opinion recites facts indicating that the law firm had at least four addresses in its system of record for the plaintiff, and tried to serve the collection lawsuit at three of them – all but her actual address.

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