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Best Practice Guide: Collaborating with law firms effectively across the portfolio management lifecycle

Qualco

Collaboration with law firms and Debt Collection Agencies (DCAs) is an integral part of modern collections and recoveries practices. Not only at the stage of the legal action where the involvement of legal professionals is necessary, but also at the earlier, amicable collections stages.

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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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The Limits On Direct And Vicarious Liability Under The FDCPA

FDCPA Defense

Debt buyers are being sued based on the conduct of their agencies and law firms. Lawyers and agency owners are being sued based on the conduct of their clients and their collectors. Retrieval Masters Creditor Bureau, Inc. , Retrieval Masters Creditor Bureau, Inc., Goodman , 200 F.3d 3d 1016, 1019 (7th Cir.