Daily Digest

COMPLAINT ACCUSES HOSPITAL, AGENCY OF TRYING TO COLLECT ON WORKER’S COMP DEBT A plaintiff has accused two healthcare providers and a collection operation ion California of violating the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by attempting to collect on debts that were allegedly …

APPEALS COURT VACATES JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF PLAINTIFF IN FDCPA CASE OVER INTEREST DISCLOSURE IN LETTER The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has overturned a lower court’s ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class action, ruling they lacked standing to pursue …

COMPLAINT ACCUSES FIRM OF PURSUING COLLECTION SUIT AFTER CLAIM OF ID THEFT Anytime a complaint starts with the sentence “… is a disabled senior citizen and monolingual Spanish-speaker who lives on a fixed income,” you can bet what follows is likely not to be good. A collection law firm is …

GETTING TO KNOW MEGAN HEBERT OF SPECIALIZED COLLECTION SYSTEMS Change starts with you, the famous saying goes. It’s a mantra that Megan Hebert of Specialized Collection Systems believes in very strongly — if the industry is going to change its image, it has to start with those working in it …

SUPREME COURT DENIES PETITION IN FDCPA STANDING CASE As we await word from the Supreme Court about whether it will hear arguments in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding case, the highest court in the land yesterday announced it had denied a petition from a plaintiff who had won $350,000 …

CLASS ACTION ACCUSES DEFENDANT OF SENDING LETTERS WITH CONFLICTING SOL INFORMATION A class-action complaint has been filed in federal court in New York accusing a defendant of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not being consistent in the information it provided to the plaintiff in a pair of …

JUDGE DISMISSES FDCPA CLASS ACTION OVER DISPUTED DEBT FOR LACK OF STANDING A District Court judge in New Jersey has dismissed a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class action for lack of standing, ruling that the plaintiff did not provide any evidence to support her claim that the defendant failed …

CLASS ACTION ACCUSES COLLECTOR OF OVERSHADOWING AFTER SENDING MULTIPLE MVNS A class-action complaint has been filed against a pair of defendants — a collection agency and a debt buyer — for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending two model validation notices for what appears to be …

GETTING TO KNOW BOB BURNSIDE OF TELROCK SYSTEMS Chances are, from the sound of it, if there is a job somewhere inside a collection operation, Bob Burnside has done it, and likely done it well. Recognizing that spending more than three decades in the industry is an accomplishment in and …

CFPB SPOTLIGHTS TRENDS IN DEBT COLLECTION CREDIT REPORTING The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday released a report that looked at the volume of third-party debt collection tradelines being furnished on consumers’ credit reports, and found that the number of collection tradelines dropped by one-third between 2018 and 2022. Contingency-fee-based debt …