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Account Recovery
AUGUST 25, 2021
The two consumer advocates on the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s Debt Collection Advisory Committee have come out and made two recommendations to protect Californians “from illegal collection practices and lawsuits.”
Account Recovery
DECEMBER 30, 2021
ARSI), a nationwide legal collections network headquartered in Southern California.
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Account Recovery
OCTOBER 23, 2020
The Donald Kramer award is given each year to “someone whose efforts have made a substantial and lasting impact for the benefit of the credit and legal collection community.”
BN Lawyers
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Brit Suttell wins the National Creditors Bar Association Donald Kramer Award for efforts on behalf of Credit and Legal Collections Industry. I’m humbled to receive such a prestigious award named after a true pioneer of legal collections, Don Kramer” said Suttell.
Public Citizen
AUGUST 22, 2021
Here is the abstract: Although the first legal conceptions of commercial privacy were identified in Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s foundational 1890 article, The Right to Privacy, conceptually, privacy has existed since as early as 1127 as a natural concern when navigating between personal and commercial spheres of life. As an extension of contract and tort law, two common relational legal models, U.S.
Re:Ceeve
JULY 21, 2020
“Software is capable of delivering extensive gains before you need to even consider debt collection agents!”. Debt collection isn’t a media darling, and you rightfully may know very little about it. Whichever structure they choose, their revenues boil down to collections fees.
Nexa Collect
AUGUST 6, 2020
While it’s smart to initially attempt collection on your own, there’s only so much work you should do. Trying to collect a bad debt is draining on your time and your resources. Eventually, it makes sense to pass the task on to a professional debt collection company.
Better Credit Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Has your credit score taken a dive due to debt in collections? When a collections agency like Accelerated Financial Solutions gets access to your debt, it can drop your score and make your day-to-day life more stressful. Apartment complex collections. Legal collections.
Collection Industry News
MARCH 8, 2021
In a coordinated effort in 2015 called Operation Collection Protection, the FTC and more than 70 law enforcement partners took 115 actions against deceptive and abusive debt collection practices. Illegal activities included harassing phone calls, bogus threats of arrest or lawsuit, and violations of other provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The collectors threatened them with legal action unless they made an immediate credit or debit card payment.
Better Credit Blog
JANUARY 27, 2021
To legally collect a debt from you, they must first report the debt to the major credit bureaus. This will open a collection account on your credit report, which can cause your score to drop as much as 100 points. Intimidate you with legal action that they can’t take.
Collection Industry News
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The 2015 consent order required Encore and its subsidiaries, prior to filing collection litigation, to provide consumers with a disclosure that the companies would provide original account-level documentation at no cost to the consumer within 30 days of a request. The 2015 consent order also prohibited the defendants from filing collection litigation on accounts that were time-barred by the applicable statute of limitations.
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Collection Industry News
OCTOBER 12, 2020
On September 29, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with more than 50 federal and state law enforcement partners, announced a nationwide law enforcement and outreach initiative designed to protect consumers from phantom debt collection, and abusive and threatening debt collection practices. Legal News
Better Credit Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
If you have had an overdue bill move to collections, you may begin hearing from a company called ACS Inc. ACS Inc is a collection agency that works with lenders and creditors to recover payments on defaulted loans or unpaid bills. Collections
Credit Corp
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The older the asset becomes, the less valuable it is because older debt is less likely to be collected. Can Creditors Attempt to Collect Charged Off Debt? You still owe the debt, and the company can still attempt to collect the debt.
Credit Corp
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Whether mail went missing or communication about medical debt got mixed up, it’s possible an account with your name on it is languishing somewhere in collections. Here’s how to find out which collection agency you owe or uncover debts you don’t know about.
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