Account Recovery

AUGUST 30, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced a $2.25 million civil penalty against New Day Financial for deceiving veterans and active-duty servicemembers in connection with cash-out refinance loans. This action comes after the CFPB found that the lender provided misleading cost comparisons to borrowers in North Carolina, Maine, and Minnesota, falsely making its loans appear less expensive than they were.

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Enterprise Recovery

AUGUST 30, 2024

A business credit score is crucial for your company's financial health and reputation. It reflects your ability to manage credit responsibly and can impact your ability to secure financing, negotiate favorable terms with suppliers, and attract potential business partners. A strong business credit score demonstrates your reliability as a borrower and opens up opportunities for growth and expansion.

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Account Recovery

AUGUST 30, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of a series that is sponsored by WebRecon. WebRecon identifies serial plaintiffs lurking in your database BEFORE you contact them and expose yourself to a likely lawsuit. Protect your company from as many as one in three new consumer lawsuits by scrubbing your consumers through WebRecon first. Want to learn more? Call (855) WEB-RECON or email admin@webrecon.net today!

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Collections Law

AUGUST 30, 2024

When you’re struggling to collect on a business debt, sometimes, you need to rely on effective tools and creative strategies. Our aggressive and relentless commercial collections attorneys have more than 50 years of combined experience. They employ innovative and ethical debt collection tactics, as allowed under state and federal laws to facilitate payments for their clients in Massachusetts.

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Speaker: Mark Stovel

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

AUGUST 30, 2024

In a case that was defended by the team at Martin Golden Lyons Watts Morgan, a District Court judge in Oklahoma has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling the defendant did not violate the statute when it contacted the plaintiff and left a voicemail at roughly the same time of day that the plaintiff had previously indicated that it wasn’t “a good time to talk.” The background: The plaintiff received a call from the defend

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Account Recovery

AUGUST 30, 2024

California is poised to become the eighth state to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports, pending Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. Both houses of the state legislature have passed SB 1061, although there were some amendments, to the disappointment of the bill’s sponsor, that changed how medical debt is defined under the proposal.

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Account Recovery

AUGUST 30, 2024

Suit Accuses CRAs, Collection Operation of Not Investigating Dispute on Three Occasions Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Over Whether ‘Not a Good Time to Talk’ Made Future Calls Inconvenient California Legislature Sends Medical Debt Credit Reporting Bill to Governor for Approval CFPB Fines Lender $2.25M for Misleading Veterans on Loan Costs WORTH NOTING: This weekend, sleep in.

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