The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
COLLECTION AGENCY OWNER INDICTED IN PAY-TO-PLAY SCANDAL
- The owner of a Pennsylvania collection agency has been indicted on six counts of fraud for allegedly steering money to a county clerks in Illinois and Florida in exchange for debt collection accounts.
NINTH CIRCUIT VACATES SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT IN FDCPA SUIT
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week vacated a lower court’s summary judgment ruling after a plaintiff sued a collection agency in a California federal court for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by filing a declaration in state court that violated state law.
JUDGE PARTIALLY GRANTS, DENIES MSJ IN FDCPA, TCPA CASE AGAINST COLLECTOR
- A collection agency has had a motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by allegedly calling an individual 297 times in 150 days and sending a collection letter to the wrong address.
CITIBANK URGES JUDGE NOT TO CERTIFY TCPA COLLECTION SUIT
- It is impossible to determine a class of wrong-number recipients to debt collection calls because doing so requires an account-by-account review of each alleged wrong number call, according to a motion filed by Citibank, which is facing a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit for allegedly calling an individual’s cell phone using an automated telephone dialing system without obtaining prior consent.
WORTH NOTING: A town in California doesn’t like that one of its residents is a fan of “The Flintstones” … A lot of money is going to be gambled on March Madness … This year’s most likely bracket busters … A Harvard professor says half of all colleges won’t exist in 10 years … How to turn fear into a super power … Does online shopping actually save you money? … Flooding in the Midwest is a big problem … A $35 billion deal between two payment processing companies … Why is Hollywood so infatuated with terminally ill teens? … RIP Dick Dale … Why you might want to renew your driver’s license early.
Why you should never hit the snooze button
Music Monday
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
COLLECTION AGENCY OWNER INDICTED IN PAY-TO-PLAY SCANDAL
- The owner of a Pennsylvania collection agency has been indicted on six counts of fraud for allegedly steering money to a county clerks in Illinois and Florida in exchange for debt collection accounts.
NINTH CIRCUIT VACATES SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT IN FDCPA SUIT
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week vacated a lower court’s summary judgment ruling after a plaintiff sued a collection agency in a California federal court for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by filing a declaration in state court that violated state law.
JUDGE PARTIALLY GRANTS, DENIES MSJ IN FDCPA, TCPA CASE AGAINST COLLECTOR
- A collection agency has had a motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by allegedly calling an individual 297 times in 150 days and sending a collection letter to the wrong address.
CITIBANK URGES JUDGE NOT TO CERTIFY TCPA COLLECTION SUIT
- It is impossible to determine a class of wrong-number recipients to debt collection calls because doing so requires an account-by-account review of each alleged wrong number call, according to a motion filed by Citibank, which is facing a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit for allegedly calling an individual’s cell phone using an automated telephone dialing system without obtaining prior consent.
WORTH NOTING: A town in California doesn’t like that one of its residents is a fan of “The Flintstones” … A lot of money is going to be gambled on March Madness … This year’s most likely bracket busters … A Harvard professor says half of all colleges won’t exist in 10 years … How to turn fear into a super power … Does online shopping actually save you money? … Flooding in the Midwest is a big problem … A $35 billion deal between two payment processing companies … Why is Hollywood so infatuated with terminally ill teens? … RIP Dick Dale … Why you might want to renew your driver’s license early.
Why you should never hit the snooze button
Music Monday
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
