Fri.Apr 25, 2025

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Oregon Senate Approves Medical Debt Credit Reporting Bill

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Oregon is the latest state attempting to fill the void being left by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with a medical debt credit reporting and collection bill, which this week passed the state Senate. Driving the news:The Oregon Senate on Wednesday passed Senate Bill 605, which prohibits medical providers, hospitals, and debt collectors from reporting medical debt to consumer credit reporting agencies.

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N.Y. State Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal for Lack of Standing

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There isn’t a ton of background and the ruling itself is also on the brief side, but what it says is probably more important than how it says it. A New York state Appeals Court has affirmed the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case on the grounds that the plaintiff did not have standing to sue. Given the trend of plaintiffs filing these types of cases in state court over federal court because federal judges are holding firm on plaintiffs needing to have suffered a concrete

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Payments Fraud Continues to Surge, While Checks Make Comeback

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The latest data from the 2025 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey reveals an alarming rise in payments fraud, with 79% of organizations reporting they were victims of fraud attempts or attacks in 2024. This figure, though slightly down from the previous years 80%, underscores the ongoing vulnerabilities businesses face in todays digital and paper-based payment environments.

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Daily Digest – April 25. Collector Facing FDCPA Class Action Over Issues With Initial Notice; N.Y. State Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal for Lack of Standing

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Collector Facing FDCPA Class Action Over Issues With Initial Notice N.Y. State Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal for Lack of Standing Oregon Senate Approves Medical Debt Credit Reporting Bill Payments Fraud Continues to Surge, While Checks Make Comeback WORTH NOTING:I hope what you read here and on AccountsRecovery is at least part of the content you trust because, according to this survey, a lot of people don’t believe what they see and read anymore … I’m generally not a fan of

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Collector Facing FDCPA Class Action Over Issues With Initial Notice

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