Tag Archives: New York

Eric Rosenkoetter from Maurice Wutscher has published an article alerting the credit and collection industry to a new law that will go into effect in New York in March that clarifies how collectors and creditors can attempt to collect debts from deceased individuals. The bill, SB 3491A, was signed into …

The New York Department of Financial Services and the Attorney General of New York announced on Friday that Conduent Education Services has agreed to pay $9 million in fines and penalties for “engaging in practices” that harmed student loan borrowers, including misinforming them that they had to pay the delinquent …

The new attorney general of New York is picking up the consumer protection battle right where her predecessor left off, and is planning on taking on the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Barbara Underwood, who took over from Eric Schneiderman last month when he resigned abruptly, said she is leading …

A New York appellate court has limited the scope of a long-held rule that prohibited defendants from arguing that they did not receive service of a lawsuit if they failed to update their address with the Department of Motor Vehicles and service was provided to whatever address the DMV had …