Tag Archives: Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services

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 Management Services. There have been …

The number of class-action lawsuits accusing debt collectors of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by communicating with a third party — a letter vendor — about the existence of a debt when it sent the plaintiff’s personal information to the vendor to be included in and mailed out …

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 banc rehearing of the case. Industry defense lawyer Rick Perr from Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to reflect corrected information about the en banc statistics for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and share en banc statistics for other Courts of Appeals. The defendant in a case ruled on last week by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which …

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 of violating Section 1692c(b) and 1692f of the …

The shockwaves are still reverberating through the accounts receivable management industry following yesterday’s ruling in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., and the question on many minds is, how bad is this going to get? That question is being asked on a number of levels. The obvious level …

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court’s ruling that a debt collector did not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when it sent an individual’s personal information to a letter vendor to have a collection letter sent to that person. The Appeals Court ruled that …