Compliance

A proposed settlement has been reached in a case in which the financing unit of Nissan Motors was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by calling the cell phones of individuals who did not have accounts with the creditor using an automatic telephone dialing system without first obtaining …

A District Court judge in Indiana has granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it allegedly did not explicitly detail the relationship between itself and the current creditor. A copy of the …

A District Court judge in Wisconsin has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not using the phrase “current creditor” in a collection letter. A copy of the ruling in the case of Steffek & Vandenwyngaard v. …

The Pennsylvania State Senate Democratic Policy Committee is holding a hearing this Thursday on ways to “curb” robocalls as the state legislature considers a bill to do the same thing. The hearing will be on Thursday, March 21 at 10am in Frazer, Pa. An announcement about the hearing mentioned a …

A collection agency has had a motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by allegedly calling an individual 297 times in 150 days and sending a collection letter …

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week vacated a lower court’s summary judgment ruling after a plaintiff sued a collection agency in a California federal court for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by filing a declaration in state court that violated state law. A copy of …

It is impossible to determine a class of wrong-number recipients to debt collection calls because doing so requires an account-by-account review of each alleged wrong number call, according to a motion filed by Citibank, which is facing a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit for allegedly calling an individual’s cell phone …

The owner of a Pennsylvania collection agency has been indicted on six counts of fraud for allegedly steering money to a county clerks in Illinois and Florida in exchange for debt collection accounts. Donald Donagher Jr., the owner of Penn Credit, is accused of donating thousands of dollars to the …

Debt collectors will be exempt from a bill that was signed into law last week by the governor of Virginia seeking to crack down on unwanted and unsolicited telemarketing calls. House Bill 2600 was signed into law by Gov. Ralph Northam and will go into effect July 1. The law …

Relying on the policies and procedures of the original creditor and the subsequent debt buyer, a District Court judge has agreed to compel arbitration in a class-action lawsuit in which the debt buyer was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by indicating the “current balance” on a …