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A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has awarded summary judgment to a plaintiff and certified her suit as a class action after she alleged a collection agency violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not being clear enough in a collection letter. A copy of the ruling in Knight …

Investors and entities that are looking to acquire companies in the credit and collection space are anxiously awaiting the release of a proposed debt collection rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau so they can assess the impact that it will have on the valuation of potential acquisition or investment …

When letting you know that it’s investigating you, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is going to start sharing some more information about what they think you might have done wrong. The CFPB announced yesterday changes to its Civil Investigative Demand process, with the intention of providing more information about the …

Ogden, Utah — Accounts Receivable payment hub PDCflow announces a new partnership with National Creditors Bar Association. Through this relationship, the company becomes the official document and payment workflow software of NCBA. As a result, all members of the trade association will now be eligible for a 20% discount on PDCflow’s software services. “National …

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 …

A pair of defendants accused of contacting a professional plaintiff in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act have had rulings issued in different lawsuits by District Court judges in Pennsylvania. A copy of the ruling in Shelton v. National Gas & Electric can be accessed by clicking here, and …

The Oklahoma legislature yesterday moved a step closer to enacting a law that will require the state’s Health Care Authority to outsource unpaid debts to a third-party collection agency. Under the law, the OHCA is allowed to place unpaid debts with a third-party agency, but does not normally do so. …

The Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that unlicensed collection agencies, including debt buyers, can face a private right of action under the Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Act (MCDCA) and the Maryland Collection Agency Licensing Act, sending a case back to the Circuit Court of Baltimore for a third time. …

The governor of Arizona has signed a bill into law that will recognize out-of-state licenses for a large number of professionals, including collection agencies, when seeking to obtain a license to work in The Grand Canyon State. The law is believed to be the first in the nation to recognize …

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 …

Compliance in the old days of the credit and collection industry used to be a lot like the carnival game. Whac-a-mole. An issue would pop up, the company would correct it — whack it, if we’re following the rules of the game — and then move on until another issue …

After agreeing to stay the proceedings in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case pending the outcome of Marks v. Crunch San Diego in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a District Court judge in Nevada has denied a request from the defendant for a second stay pending the release of …

A District Court judge in Wisconsin has granted a motion for attorney’s fees from the lawyers representing a plaintiff in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act suit after the plaintiff accepted an offer of judgment, awarding $22,333.25. The defendant had made three recommendations ranging from denying the request to awarding …

A team from the law firm of Greenberg Traurig have published a lengthy article on an interesting trend: an increase in the number of putative class-action lawsuits alleging violations of a debt collection regulation in Massachusetts, even though there is no private right of action under the rule, known as …