Daily Digest – December 19. Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss FDCPA Suit After Agency Accused of Making False Statements; Judge Denies Navient’s Motion to Dismiss Suit Filed by Penn. AG

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JUDGE DENIES MOTION TO DISMISS FDCPA SUIT AFTER AGENCY ACCUSED OF MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS

• A federal judge in Michigan has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by making misleading statements to the plaintiff and by negotiating a potential settlement with the plaintiff’s spouse without the plaintiff’s knowledge.

JUDGE DENIES NAVIENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS SUIT FILED BY PENNSYLVANIA AG

• A federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the state against Navient, ruling that the suit is not pre-empted by a similar suit filed against the company by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

BANKRUPTCY JUDGE DISCHARGES $50,000 IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT

• The ruling in this particular case may be a few months old, but it was brought to light recently and I thought it was worth mentioning here. A woman, Vicky Jo Metz, who took out $16,613 in student loans nearly three decades ago got a huge win from a bankruptcy court judge in late September when the judge allowed all but the original principal to be discharged.

PATIENTS GENERALLY LEFT ON FINANCIAL HOOK WHEN SURGERIES GO WRONG

• If you buy something and it breaks, you take it back and either get a replacement or get your money back. If you pay for a service and the repair ends up breaking soon after the work is done, the individual who made the repair generally comes back and fixes it. That’s how the real world works. That’s not how the healthcare world works.

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