The Daily Digest is sponsored by Beam Software. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Beam is a thought leader in portfolio management and collection software. They offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions to accommodate the entire collection continuum. For more information, please visit www.beamsoftware.com or call (800) 212-2326.
WHY ANYONE DEFENDING TCPA CASES NEEDS TO LEARN THE WORDS ‘PRIMARY JURISDICTION DOCTRINE’
- Eric Troutman, a partner at the law firm of Womble Bond Dickinson, and a noted expert on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, has published an interesting piece why he predicts an “avalanche” of stay orders in pending TCPA cases in the coming months, now that the Federal Communications Commission has restarted the process of trying to define what constitutes an automated telephone dialing system and who a “called party” is.
RIP MEDICAL DEBT PROFILED ON NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
- The increasing number of television stations that have been turned into debt buyers as a means of forgiving medical debt for individuals in their viewing areas has caught the attention of NBC News, which conducted an interview with Craig Antico, the co-founder of RIP Medical Debt, during last night’s newscast.
WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT GDPR IS
- To be honest, when I first saw the acronym GDPR showing up on sites and articles, I thought it was a typo related to information about East Germany or Gross Domestic Products. But you shouldn’t be as lazy as I have been. GDPR is the Global Data Protection Regulation, and it goes into effect on Friday. In vastly oversimplified terms, it is a data privacy rule that gives individuals more control over the personal data that is managed by companies and establishes strict requirements for how companies must manage and protect that information.
GOING OUT ON A LIMB
- I will be the first to admit that there are a lot of people in the ARM industry who know a lot more about the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act than I do. And there are a lot of people who know the inner workings of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection better than I do. But as a huge believer in the transitive property of mathematics, I am left to wonder something.
WORTH NOTING: Thousands of teachers have had grants from the Department of Education changed to loans and are now saddled with thousands of dollars of debt because of problems with their paperwork … That’s a hefty price to pay for a 15-year-old who threw two fireworks into a canyon … Did you know a new Miss USA was crowned last night? … Summer is stressing you out, according to a new study … The four rules to ranting productively … There is a U-Haul crisis in San Francisco because so many people are moving away … The skills that millennials need the most help with … Maybe I should change careers and become a truck driver … Why you should start eating an egg every day … People who attended the Royal Wedding are now trying to turn a profit … Why you don’t need a bigger home … Meet the richest person in every state.
Why we should paint streets white
How to stay calm under pressure
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Beam Software. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Beam is a thought leader in portfolio management and collection software. They offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions to accommodate the entire collection continuum. For more information, please visit www.beamsoftware.com or call (800) 212-2326.
