Compliance

A group of 21 consumer advocacy groups yesterday sent a letter to Kathleen Kraninger, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, asking the regulator to reconsider guidance it issued earlier in the coronavirus pandemic that said it would be flexible in giving furnishers more than the required 30 days …

Trying to make heads or tails of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the volume of lawsuits filed against collection agencies continues to baffle, according to the latest data released yesterday by WebRecon. In July, where the volume of lawsuits alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair …

A District Court judge in New York has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly overshadowing the validation notice when it made a reference to initiating “a review of the inquiry” in a collection letter. A copy …

A vendor that works with healthcare providers has agreed to repay $2.3 million after it was hacked and the personal information of more than 6 million individuals was compromised, in a settlement with the Department of Health & Human Services’s Office of Civil Rights. The vendor — CHSPSC — is …

A District Court judge in California has granted a defendant’s motion for sanctions under Rule 11 and ordered a plaintiff’s attorney to pay the defendant’s legal bills of more than $27,000 after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for using a fake summons to …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by not investigating and removing inaccurate information from the plaintiff’s credit report. A copy of the ruling in the case of Soyinka v. Equifax Information …

[EDITOR’S NOTE: I didn’t realize it until I had finished writing the summary, but this ruling is from late February. While it might be a little stale, it still might present some interesting facts worth reading, and I didn’t want the time I spent writing it to go to waste. …

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has reached a settlement with a healthcare provider that was the subject of a data breach that compromised the identities of 209,000 individuals which will see the provider pay $1.5 million. The breach occurred in 2016 after it was …

A District Court judge in Minnesota has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss, and in the alternative, a motion to stay a lawsuit filed by a plaintiff alleging the defendant violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act during the course of filing its own lawsuit against the plaintiff in an …

A few years ago, my wife and I leased a sport utility vehicle. When the lease was up, we weren’t what to do, so the lender offered to extend the lease for a month. After a month, we still has not made up our minds and we asked for another …