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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Collector Accused of Coercing Individual Into Paying Medical Debt State Court Judge Grants Motion to Compel in FDCPA Case Over Transfer of Account to ‘Litigation Department’ Pennsylvania AG Launches Portal to Report Data Breaches Under New Law Appeals Court Vacates Class Certification in FCRA Case for Lack of Standing WORTH NOTING: The best new features of iOS 18, which dropped yesterday … You may want to think twice before putting these items in your trash … The five states where co

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UK debt collections

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has issued a fresh warning to customers to beware of misleading requests for payments, sent by unsolicited organisations. These typically take the form of invoices requesting payment for trade marks, designs, or patents services. Such ‘services’ – once paid for – may simply never be provided, or may be of little or no benefit to the customer (for example, inclusion on an ‘exclusive online register’, not recognised by the IPO or any other official body).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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Collection Industry News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission has provided the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with its annual summary of activities to protect consumers in the debt collection arena. The summary is used by CFPB in its annual report to Congress on the activities of both agencies, which share law enforcement responsibility in this area. In the summary, the Commission highlights its debt collection work to protect individuals and small business consumers, including: settlements and/or completed trials

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When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

Account Recovery

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Even though he acknowledged that the language in an underlying contract could have been clearer, a State Court judge in Wisconsin has granted a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case that was defended by Avanti Bakane of Gordon Rees. The background: The case stemmed from a credit card account opened by the plaintiff with Synchrony Bank in July 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In order for a plaintiff to have standing in a Fair Credit Reporting Act case, a third party must have read, understood, or otherwise considered the inaccurate information. In other words, if a credit report falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, it doesn’t make a sound. The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last week vacated a class certification order in an FCRA case involving alleged inaccurate Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) alerts on tenant screening report

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