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When you own your own business, something always demands your attention. Whether it's troubleshooting office issues like internet outages, customer service challenges, or trying to get paid, entrepreneurship is a busy vocation. To grow your business, you may need to adjust your focus from putting out fires to looking at your business differently. Adjust your perspective with this helpful advice for busy business owners.
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COMPLAINT ACCUSES FIRM OF PURSUING COLLECTION SUIT AFTER CLAIM OF ID THEFT Anytime a complaint starts with the sentence “… is a disabled senior citizen and monolingual Spanish-speaker who lives on a fixed income,” you can bet what follows is likely not to be good. A collection law firm is being sued for violating the … The post Daily Digest – February 24.
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As discussed here , on September 8, 2022, an en banc panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s decision that a debt collector’s outsourcing of its letter process to a third-party mail vendor violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s prohibition on third-party disclosure. The Eleventh Circuit remanded the case to the district court with instructions to dismiss for lack of standing.
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