IN CONVERSATION: JACK GORDON
- Starting up and running company is hard enough. But for Jack Gordon, that’s just a starting point. Jack is mostly known for running WebRecon, a litigious debtor scrub that has become an important risk management product for companies in the accounts receivable and contact center industries. But Jack also runs FDCPA Certifications, a training and knowledge management service, Cheaper Booths, a tradeshow design service, and more. Harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit and developing a spidey sense for good ideas is a skill Jack has honed over his years in the business. Read on to learn more about how Jack comes up with his ideas, and what to do when those fleeting flashes of brilliance appear.
JUDGE GRANTS MTD IN FDCPA CASE OVER ALLEGED REFUSAL TO HONOR PAYMENT PLAN
- Does allegedly agreeing to a payment plan only to back out of it constitute an unfair or deceptive practice under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act? Not according to a District Court judge in Pennsylvania, who granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss last week, largely because the plaintiff never identified anything the defendant did that was misleading.
STUDY CALLS OUT WISCONSIN HOSPITALS FOR FILING MORE LAWSUITS AGAINST MINORITIES
- Hospitals in Wisconsin filed 37% more collection lawsuits in 2018 than they did in 2001 and obtained garnishments in more than half of their cases, while also disproportionately suing individuals living in low-income neighborhoods and who are African-American, according to the results of a study that was published yesterday in Health Affairs.
PAPER CALLS ON N.Y. TO ENACT STATE LICENSING LAW
- The largest newspaper in Buffalo is calling on the state legislature in New York to enact a statewide licensing law, after the Attorney General took action against an allegedly unscrupulous debt collector last month.
ARBEIT HIRES FIRST COMPLIANCE MANAGER
- Arbeit, a Buffalo based leading provider of contact software solutions for the debt collection industry, is thrilled to name Adam Freeland as its first Compliance Manager.
WORTH NOTING: Tips to help you stop being so late, or at least make you more honest about it … Singing Britney Spears in front of your class is likely never a good idea … Forgetting he had already purchased a ticket was a good thing for one lucky winner … Some good news about Omicron … Mistakes to avoid if you are laying off employees remotely … What will work look like in 2022? … On top of everything else, we still have to worry about the mumps, too … New York City is almost out of cream cheese.
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