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FOUNDER OF VALUE RECOVERY GROUP PASSES AWAY
- Barry Fromm, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Value Recovery Group, passed away last week following a stroke. He was 68. Value Recovery Group is an asset management and consulting firm that has managed more than $6 billion of judgments, deficiencies, and charge-offs, according to the company’s website.
JUDGE GRANTS SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENSE AFTER REFUSAL TO PAY FAXED TO WRONG NUMBER
- A District Court judge in Illinois has granted summary judgment in favor of a defendant who was being sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by attempting to collect on a debt after the plaintiff had refused to pay it, even though the refusal was sent via fax to an affiliate of the defendant using a number that the affiliate had stopped using two years prior to the suit being filed.
JUDGE OUTSIDE NINTH CIRCUIT DENIES MOTION TO DISMISS TCPA CASE BASED ON MARKS RULING
- The lawyers from Womble Bond Dickinson who maintain TCPAland.com broke the news yesterday about a court outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that applied the ruling in Marks v. Crunch San Diego regarding what defines an automatic telephone dialing system. A judge in the Southern District of Florida yesterday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that a defendant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by allegedly contacting an individual more than 300 times after the individual revoked consent to be contacted.
INDIANA TV STATTION BUYS, FORGIVES $15 MILLION IN MEDICAL DEBTS
- Another television station has taken up the fight to help individuals in its viewing area who are dealing with high amounts of unpaid medical debts. Following other stations in Utah, St. Louis, and Seattle, Fox59 in central Indiana is looking to help families who have high amounts of unpaid medical debts and are struggling to repay them.
CONVOKE INTRODUCES DEBT SETTLEMENT FEATURE TO ITS PLATFORM
- Convoke, a leader in SaaS solutions for the debt collection market, today announced the most recent software update to its debt collections compliance and management hub.
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