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MOTHER’S SAY-SO NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP JUDGE FROM GRANTING MSJ FOR DEFENDANT IN FDCPA, TCPA CASE
- A District Court judge in Texas has granted summary judgment in favor of a defendant that was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, in part because the plaintiff’s mother heard the plaintiff revoke consent to being contacted, except for the fact that the revocation came months before the defendant started calling the plaintiff.
THE WEEK THAT COULD SHAPE THE NEXT GENERATION OF COLLECTIONS
- Is this the week that the credit and collection industry has been waiting for since November 2013?
NEW CALL SCAM MAY PUSH MORE COLLECTORS TO LEAVE VOICEMAILS TO GET CALLS RETURNED
- Debt collectors often face a dilemma when it comes to voicemails — leaving them can open up potential legal and compliance issues, while not leaving them can mean that individuals will not return calls from numbers they do not recognize. Now, scammers are giving collectors one more reason to consider leaving voicemails.
GOV’T MORE LIKELY TO SUE FOR UNPAID STUDENT LOANS IN MINORITY NEIGHBORHOODS: NCLC
- Are student loan collectors targeting individuals in neighborhoods and cities that are largely comprised of minorities? That is one claim being made by the National Consumer Law Center, which recently released a report, which attempted to correlate lawsuits filed against individuals with defaulted student loans and where those individuals live.
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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 to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.