LAWSUIT ACCUSES COLLECTOR OF FAILING TO HONOR AGREEMENT BECAUSE PAYMENT WAS TWO DAYS LATE
- A plaintiff has filed a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit against a defendant for holding the plaintiff to the letter of a settlement agreement, claiming that the defendant violated the statute and breached an agreement between the two parties because a payment from the plaintiff was received two days late.
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JUDGE FINDS PLAINTIFF HAS STANDING, BUT STILL GRANTS MSJ FOR DEFENSE IN FDCPA CASE OVER DISPUTED DEBT
- Is this yet another sign that the attack on standing has reached its tipping point? A District Court judge in Illinois has ruled that a plaintiff in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case has suffered a concrete injury based on the communication of inaccurate information to a credit reporting agency, which created an “intangible, reputational injury.” Even though the plaintiff did have standing, the judge did, though, grant the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, ruling it did not know or should have known that the debt was previously disputed with another creditor.
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TEXAS ENACTS MEDICAL BILLING TRANSPARENCY LAW
- The governor of Texas has signed a bill into law that will require hospitals and health care facilities send patients a written, understandable itemized invoice prior to placing the account with a debt collector. The law is scheduled to go into effect on September 1.
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DEBT CEILING BILL INCLUDES PROVISION FOR END OF STUDENT LOAN PAYMENT MORATORIUM
- Putting perhaps the final nail in the moratorium on student loan payments is a clause in the deal worked out between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt ceiling that ends the pause within 60 days after June 30 once the bill is signed into law.
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EXPERTS SHARE INSIGHTS INTO RECENT COURT CASES
- If you’re like me, you’re always looking for context. Court rulings can be good or bad, and there is always something that you should be taking away from them. This week, Mitch Williamson, Katie Zugsay, Virginia Bell Flynn, Jacob Bach, Stacy Rodriguez, and Chad Echols point out the important takeaways from recent court cases in the Compliance Digest.
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