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The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following recap was provided by Nicole Strickler of Messer Strickler. Nicole Strickler The team at Messer Strickler, Ltd. is pleased to report a complete defense verdict in favor of its client, Federated Law Group, PPLC, in a case filed by serial FDCPA filer, Michael Savino, Jr. Savino, …

A District Court judge in Arizona has denied a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not disclosing in its initial communications with the plaintiff — two voicemail messages — that the defendant was attempting to collect a …

While not likely a surprise to anyone, healthcare spending is expected to continue growing for at least the next decade, and the numbers are pretty astronomical, according to a report from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Health expenditures are expected to double …

Like companies in the credit and collection industry, rural hospitals have been facing a crisis and consolidation in recent years, but there might be an opportunity for collection agencies to help those facilities as that crisis is expected to worsen, according to a report that was released yesterday. More than …

Like many, Mitch Williamson did not aspire to a career in the credit and collections industry. But like many, the industry is better off because people like him ended up in it anyway. Read on to learn more about Mitch, how comic books offer him an escape, and what he would …

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — TrueAccord, the first-of-its-kind tech platform that transforms the antiquated debt recovery industry, announced today that it has chosen Lenexa, Kansas for its new shared services operation. The company will invest $1.34 million and will expand to over 150 professionals over the next three years across sales, operations and technology functions. …

The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us …

The content of a text message sent to an individual and ensuring the proper consent was obtained before sending a message helped a company secure summary judgment after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The plaintiff has appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of …

Having gathered data for more than four years, the Federal Reserve Board of New York unveiled a new report yesterday, the Survey of Consumer Expectations Household Spending Survey, which details experiences and expectations regarding how individuals and households are spending their money. For example, should a respondent suddenly see a …

Like any company, the Department of Defense makes mistakes. Sometimes, servicemembers are overpaid. But when trying to recover that extra money that showed up in a servicemember’s paycheck, the DoD’s debt collection efforts are falling short of what they are supposed to be doing, according to a report issued last …

Lawsuits against collection agencies alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act were all up in January, compared with December 2018, but only the FCRA was up from the first month of last year, according to data released …

PHOENIX, Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BillingTree®, the payment problem solvers™, today announced that Debt$Net®, the Account Receivables Management (ARM) software specialist will integrate the Payrazr® solution suite into its client-facing software platform. The integration means Debt$Net ARM clients can seamlessly offer Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and online payment portals, while also benefitting …

The state of Washington’s House of Representatives has approved a bill that would require collectors file a lawsuit with the courts before serving an individual with a summons and a complaint. The bill now moves to the state Senate for consideration and is one step closer to becoming law. The …

Recently, Kathy Kraninger, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, toured a collection agency in Chicago. The trip was set up by Irwin Bernstein, the CEO of CMS Services. Irwin took the time to answer some questions from AccountsRecovery.net about the meeting and shared his thoughts about Kraninger.  How …