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Collection Industry News
JUNE 14, 2021
Ciffa’s offices in Niagara Falls and Kenmore, debt collectors intimidated their victims with illegal threats of arrests and lawsuits. According to federal prosecutors, an elderly cancer patient in Texas was so rattled by the threats that she borrowed $500 from her sister to help pay off a debt of $1,285. Source: site.
Consumer Financial Services Law
OCTOBER 17, 2017
An unpublished opinion from the Eleventh Circuit continues its analysis of the definition of a debt collector and continues to narrow the applicability of the FDCPA. 3d 1309 (11 th Cir. 2015) was one of the first opinions to parse the definition of a debt collector under 15 U.S.C. LEXIS 19750 (11 th Cir.
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Consumer Financial Services Law
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Delta Outsource Group, the consumer, who was employed as a collector by another debt collector, received two calls from the collection agency while at work. The court denied summary judgment agreeing with the debt collector that a question of fact remains as to whether the debt collector violated the FDCPA.
Collection Industry News
OCTOBER 6, 2020
It was a great time to be a debt collector. In August, Encore Capital, the largest debt buyer in the country, announced that it had doubled its previous record for earnings in a quarter. The only people who would do this are debt collectors who have no ongoing relationship with someone.”
The Creditors Rights
AUGUST 2, 2016
In 2014 the Eleventh Circuit held that a debt collector violates the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act when it filed a proof of claim in a chapter 13 case on a debt that it knows to be time-barred. 3d 1254 (11 th Circ. Midland Funding, LLC , 2016 WL 2996372 (11 th Cir. 3d 1313 (11 TH Cir.
BN Lawyers
JUNE 12, 2020
On June 11, 2020, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (“DCA”) released amendments to its debt collection regulations aimed at addressing communications with consumers who may have limited English proficiency (the “Amendments”). Fast forward to June 11 th when, to the industry’s surprise, these Amendments were published.
FDCPA Defense
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
This would render meaningless the FDCPA's carefully drawn distinction between debt collectors and enforcers of security interests, and expand the scope of the FDCPA well past the boundary of clear congressional intent and common sense.” Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC , 2015 WL 11256663, *6 (D. See Avila , 817 F.3d 3d at 76-77.
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