Compliance

In what is reported to becoming an increasingly common development in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases across the country, a District Court judge in New Jersey has temporarily terminated a motion to certify a class action and issued an order to both the plaintiff and defendant in the case …

The Pennsylvania legislature has passed a bill that will allow state courts in the Commonwealth to place accounts private collection agencies to pursue individuals with overdue court fines and costs. The bill, SB 516, has been presented to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf for his signature or veto. The bill passed …

Navigating the rough waters of credit reporting is tough sailing oftentimes. Even when a company tries to do the right thing, problems can arise. One defendant is learning that after a District Court judge in Missouri partially granted and partially denied its motion for judgment on the pleadings in a …

To quote Ron Burgundy, “That escalated quickly.” From wondering whether a bill in Florida aimed at creating its own state version of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act would ever make it to the governor’s desk to the bill becoming law and going into effect feels like it took less than …

Today is a new day for companies making calls, including those in the accounts receivable management industry. Starting today, phone carriers are required to deploy the STIR/SHAKEN call authentication protocols that were built to combat the illegal spoofing of phone numbers and provide consumers with a level of comfort that …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Attorney General of Georgia yesterday announced a consent order with a debt relief and credit repair company and its owners that were accused of deceiving consumers into hiring the company to lower or eliminate credit card debt and improve the consumers’ credit scores. …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released the 24th issue of its “Supervisory Highlights” reports, which shares the results and findings from examinations of companies regulated by the CFPB with respect to how those companies are complying with federal law. This includes debt collectors and their compliance with the Fair …

Verbs are important components of a sentence. In fact, a sentence isn’t really a sentence without a verb in it. But choosing the right verb can be difficult. Take, for example, a collection letter that includes a disclosure attempting to inform the recipient of the letter that the balance that …

What Credit Karma says in its reports about a consumer’s credit history is not gospel, a District Court judge in Tennessee has ruled, granting a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it allegedly communicated information to a credit …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced the release of a final rule, which will go into effect on August 31 and aims to ensure an “orderly transition” back to a normal housing market by providing protections to homeowners to prevent a flood of foreclosures now that many forbearance programs …