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VIDEO: ANSWERING MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT CREDIT REPORTING Condition codes can be tricky when credit reporting. Changing a code when an investigation is complete is not always as simple as it sounds. In the latest episode of “Ask The Credit Reporting Expert,” Lauren Burnette of Messer Strickler walks through some of …

HUNSTEIN-RELATED CLASS ACTIONS CONTINUE PILING UP The number of 1692c(b) lawsuits alleging that a debt collector communicated information with a third party in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act continues to explode in the weeks following the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s ruling in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and …

JUDGE DENIES MTD IN FDCPA SUIT OVER FRAUDULENT DEBT A District Court judge in Washington has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss claims it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act after it was accused of continuing to demand payment and moving forward with a collection lawsuit even though it …

JUDGE PARTIALLY GRANTS MSJ FOR DEFENDANT ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT FROM WRONG PERSON A District Court judge in Washington has partially granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment while denying a plaintiff’s motion for the same ruling in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the defendant …

GETTING TO KNOW AMY STRATZ OF FBCS There are people who go into the family business only to learn it isn’t for them and there are people who go into the family business and find their true calling. It’s easy to see from the answers provided by Amy Stratz into …

DEFENDANT IN HUNSTEIN CASE HIRES NEW LAWYER, WHO CONFIRMS EN BANC PETITION WILL BE FILED The defendant in the Hunstein case out of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has hired a new lawyer, who confirmed that the company will be filing a petition with the Court for an en …

JUDGE GRANTS MSJ FOR PLAINTIFF IN FDCPA CASE OVER LACK OF NOTIFICATION IN UNDERLYING COLLECTION SUIT A District Court judge in Washington has granted a plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment while denying motions for summary judgment filed by the defendants in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling …

MORE ON HUNSTEIN; EN BANC LIKELIHOOD, WEBINAR RECORDING The defendant in a case ruled on last week by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which determined that sending a consumer’s personal information to a letter vendor constituted a communication under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act has a 50-50 shot …

FIRST CLASS-ACTION SUIT, POST-HUNSTEIN, FILED IN N.Y. FEDERAL COURT Well that didn’t take long. Less than a day after the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, a class-action lawsuit has been filed in New York federal court accusing a debt collector …

GETTING TO KNOW DON SILER OF CREDENCE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS They say that traumatic events can completely change your outlook on life. Don Siler is living proof of that. Now able to talk about the heart attack he suffered when he was 40 years old, Don luckily walked away from the …