Compliance

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has issued a notice of rulemaking, seeking to incorporate changes to its debt collection license application after reviewing comments on the proposal. Interested parties have until July 12 to submit their comments on the new proposal. The licensing law is scheduled …

A group of Senate Democrats are calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to prohibit reporting medical debt collection tradelines to credit bureaus, further limiting the number of communication attempts beyond what is included in Regulation F, and know whether a consumer is appealing the denial of coverage with his …

Both the defendant in the Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services case as well as ACA International jumped on the Supreme Court’s ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez to add to their arguments why the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals should grant the petition for an en banc rehearing of …

As evidenced by a recently held webinar on AccountsRecovery.net, there are a lot more questions than answers about a soon-to-be-enacted medical debt collection law in Nevada. But, thanks to some questions submitted to the Financial Institutions Division of the Nevada Department of Business and Industry, there are some answers to …

The Supreme Court today issued its ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez, ruling that every member of a class must have Article III standing in order to be eligible to recover damages, dealing a blow to class-action plaintiffs across the country. This particular ruling is being seen as a reinforcement of …

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A District Court judge in Washington has signed off on a final settlement in a Fair Credit Reporting Act class action that will see the plaintiff’s attorneys be awarded as much as 73% of the final amount that the defendant is willing to pay to settle the case after the …

The governor of Maine has signed a bill into law that will require telephone companies that offer services aimed at reducing the number of robocalls received by their subscribers to do so “at a reasonably affordable cost” in an attempt to reduce the number of robocalls received by residents of …

A District Court judge in Florida has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment on most of the claims in a lawsuit accusing it of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act by misrepresenting that the collector was an attorney and by using …

A lot of eyes that worry about autodialers and telephone calls are fixed firmly on The Sunshine State, wondering if its version of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will go into effect next week or not. The state legislature in April passed CS/SB 1120, but Gov. Ron DeSantis has still …