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Read More »Collector Facing Class-Action Suit for Failing to Provide Validation Information in Initial Notice
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of a series that is sponsored by WebRecon. WebRecon identifies serial plaintiffs lurking in your database BEFORE you contact them and expose yourself to a likely lawsuit. Protect your company from as many as one in three new consumer lawsuits by scrubbing your consumers through WebRecon …
Read More »Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Class Action Over Different Settlement Offers in Letters
A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action, albeit for lack of standing even though both sides agreed that the plaintiff suffered a concrete injury, after the plaintiff received two collection letters that offered to settle the …
Read More »Judge Partially Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Over Lack of License
A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss on one count it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, but otherwise denied the motion it violated the statute by placing a debt to be collected without having a proper license to do so. A …
Read More »Judge Dismisses FDCPA Case Over Multiple Address, Third-Party Disclosure, for Lack of Standing
A District Court judge in New Jersey — taking the issue up all on her own — has ruled that a plaintiff lacks standing to sue a collection agency after accusing it of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it used multiple addresses in a collection letter and …
Read More »Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Over Settlement Offer in Letter
A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because settlement offers mentioned in an initial collection notice allegedly violated the 30-day dispute window. A copy of the ruling in the case of Bernard …
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 Leaving out Some Reg F Disclosures in Initial Notification
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Nevada, accusing a pair of companies of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly sending an initial notification to the plaintiff without including all of the required validation information required under Regulation F. The notification was sent in …
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 Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Over $0.01 Discrepancy
A penny saved is a penny earned, the saying goes. But when it comes to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, especially on a debt in excess of $3,000, not suing a debt collector over a penny is the best way to save your money, according to a District Court …
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