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A Good Collection Agency

Taurus Collect

So here are 5 tips to choose a good collection agency for your business: Reputation & trustworthiness – always look for an agency with at least 5 years of trading history. A lot of collection agencies set-up then disappear within a year or 2. Obviously these are very untrustworthy collection agencies!

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Can The CFPB Make Debt Collectors Reveal Their Attorney-Client Privileged Documents?

FDCPA Defense

The privilege simply will not work unless the client and the lawyer can be certain that their communications will not be disclosed. The Bureau estimates that this will bring approximately 175 entities, or the largest 4 percent of consumer collection firms, within the definition. Federal Trade Commission , 430 F.3d

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Debt Collectors, Payday Lenders Collected Over $500 Million In Federal Pandemic Relief

Collection Industry News

Twenty-five have been subject to legal enforcement or consumer alerts, many by the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission. Giving these companies government money was a terrible idea,” said Don Yarbrough, a lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who represents debtors in collection cases.

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Concerns over prohibition against debt collection service

Collection Industry News

104/2007/ND – CP, which is prohibited under the Investment Law 2020, lawyers and law firms are able to practice debt collection as a professional field. However, approaches to recover debts between lawyers and collecting firms are obviously different. Debt collection service” is disguised after being banned.

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A giant US hospital chain says it’s leading the fight against medical debt. Not all patients agree

Collection Industry News

The industry trade journal Beckers Hospital Review recently elevated Advocate to No 4 on itsrankings of the nations largest hospital chains, up from No 7 earlier this year. The costs of care Advocate Health controls 69 hospitals and 1,000 other care sites in six states serving 5.4