A District Court judge in Michigan has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class action on one of the claims accusing a company of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, but denied the motion to dismiss the remaining claims, ruling that using different account numbers when attempting to …
Read More »Complaint Alleges Collector Violated Reg F’s Debt Parking Prohibition
A lawsuit has been filed against a collection agency for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the “debt parking” provisions of Regulation F — in what might be the first such lawsuit filed following the enactment of the debt collection rule last November. A copy of the complaint …
Read More »Lawsuit Accuses Collector of Trying to Collect Inflated Amount, Not Including Required Itemization Info in Letter
A complaint has been filed accusing a collection agency of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F because it apparently did not use a Model Validation Notice and allegedly did not provide the itemization information required when it sent its first written communication attempting to collect on …
Read More »Class-Action Accuses Collector of Trying to Collect Canceled Debt
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a collection agency, accusing it of contacting an individual who was represented by an attorney — because the plaintiff had already filed suit against another agency for the same debt before the account was recalled and placed with another agency — and for …
Read More »Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Over Identity Theft Letter
A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit over a letter that was sent to the plaintiff providing information about how to file an identity theft claim. A copy of the ruling in the case of …
Read More »Class-Action Complaint Accuses Collector of Listing Wrong Validation Date in Notice
A class-action complaint originally filed in state court in Florida has been removed to federal court at the request of the defendant, which is being sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for a number of alleged violations, including not providing a proper end of the validation period …
Read More »Class-Action Accuses Collector of Using Wrong Itemization Date
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a company for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F because the itemization date that was used in a Model Validation Notice that was sent to a plaintiff was allegedly not one of the five allowed dates approved by the …
Read More »Judge Denies Competing Motions in FDCPA, TCPA Case
A District Court Judge in Nevada has denied competing motions for judgment on the pleadings filed by both the plaintiff and defendant in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Telephone Consumer Protection Act case about calls that were made to the plaintiff by the defendant after the debt had …
Read More »Class Action Accuses Collector of Violating FDCPA Over Premature SOL Disclosure
A class action has been filed against a company for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including a statement in a letter to the plaintiff that the statute of limitations had expired on the underlying debt when, according to the plaintiff, that expiration had not yet occurred. …
Read More »Patient Files Class Action, Accusing Debt Collector of Violating FDCPA, Regulation F
A class action lawsuit has been filed in North Carolina federal court against a hospital network and the collection agency it uses, accusing them of violating state law in North Carolina as well as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by overcharging him for a visit to the emergency room …
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