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GETTING TO KNOW DONNA NICHOLSON STIEF OF CREDIT BUREAU OF LANCASTER COUNTY
- The ARM industry is significantly better off because of people like Donna Nicholson Stief. The prospects for the ARM industry seem to be brighter because of people like Donna Nicholson Stief. A student of leadership, Nicholson Stief has been heavily involved in supporting and helping the ARM industry at the state and national levels, and she has a two-word answer that she thinks would stop most frivolous lawsuits from ever seeing the light of day. Read on to learn more about Donna and her eclectic taste in music.
FTC, NY AG ACCUSE DEBT BROKER, AGENCY OF SELLING, COLLECTING ON FAKE DEBTS
- The FTC and the AG of New York have charged a group of companies and individuals with violating the FDCPA as well as New York state law in collecting on counterfeit debts that individuals did not owe. To make matters worse for the defendants, they allegedly used illegal tactics to attempt to collect on the debts, including failing to provide required notices about the debt and consumers’ rights to dispute the debt, and threatening to contact, or contacting, family members or other third parties.
APPEALS COURT RULES DEFENDANT CAN’T COMPEL ARBITRATION IN TCPA CASE
- The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision denying a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case because text messages sent by the defendant fall outside the scope of an original agreement between the two parties.
SENATE DEMOCRATS ASK FCC FOR BROADER DEFINITION OF ATDS, STRONGER REASSIGNED NUMBER PROTECTIONS
- A group of 14 Senate Democrats have sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, urging the agency to adopt broader consumer protections related to automated telephone dialing systems, reassigned phone numbers, and consent revocation as it considers a new rule to replace parts of one that was recently struck down by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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The Daily Digest is sponsored by Beam Software. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Beam is a thought leader in portfolio management and collection software. They offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions to accommodate the entire collection continuum. For more information, please visit www.beamsoftware.com or call (800) 212-2326.
