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.
NINTH CIRCUIT REVIVES TCPA VICARIOUS LIABILITY SUIT AGAINST STUDENT LENDER
- The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday overruled a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because debt collectors hired by a company it had placed the accounts with attempted to contact her using an automatic telephone dialing system without her consent.
ANOTHER GUILTY PLEA IN COLLECTION SCAM
- An “intermittent” employee who worked as a collector and trained others to scam individuals out of more than $3 million in payments has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and is now facing up to 20 years in prison.
WASHINGTON STATE COLLECTION INDUSTRY GOES UNDER MICROSCOPE IN NEWS REPORT
- The debt collection industry in The Evergreen State — Washington — goes under the microscope in a published report, detailing how the state has among the “most punishing” laws in the nation for people in debt, and how filing lawsuits against individuals is so lucrative that “some of the state’s busiest collection firms have placed quotas on their agents to initiate lawsuits, according to interviews with current and former employees at those companies.”
COLLECTION AGENCY MOVING TO NEW OFFICE, HIRING 150 EMPLOYEES
- Reliant Capital Solutions has announced a plan to move into a larger office in Western New York and will hire an additional 150 staff members for the location, according to a published report.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN TCPA FAX CASE TODAY
- The Telephone Consumer Protection Act will be front-and-center before the Supreme Court today, but only as a pawn in a more existential discussion about whether courts have a requirement to accept how a regulator interprets a statute.
WORTH NOTING: A decent summary of what happens now that Robert Mueller has submitted his report … Mocking bathtub tray ads has gone viral … Gronk has announced his retirement … My high school definitely wasn’t this ambitious … How Coach K builds winning teams … People are expecting a big announcement from Apple today … How fast food restaurants get you to spend more money … I had always wanted to try a cruise, but maybe not after reading this … Replacing the SAT with a video game … Storytelling tips to help you with your next job interview.
How stores manipulate you
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.
NINTH CIRCUIT REVIVES TCPA VICARIOUS LIABILITY SUIT AGAINST STUDENT LENDER
- The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday overruled a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because debt collectors hired by a company it had placed the accounts with attempted to contact her using an automatic telephone dialing system without her consent.
ANOTHER GUILTY PLEA IN COLLECTION SCAM
- An “intermittent” employee who worked as a collector and trained others to scam individuals out of more than $3 million in payments has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and is now facing up to 20 years in prison.
WASHINGTON STATE COLLECTION INDUSTRY GOES UNDER MICROSCOPE IN NEWS REPORT
- The debt collection industry in The Evergreen State — Washington — goes under the microscope in a published report, detailing how the state has among the “most punishing” laws in the nation for people in debt, and how filing lawsuits against individuals is so lucrative that “some of the state’s busiest collection firms have placed quotas on their agents to initiate lawsuits, according to interviews with current and former employees at those companies.”
COLLECTION AGENCY MOVING TO NEW OFFICE, HIRING 150 EMPLOYEES
- Reliant Capital Solutions has announced a plan to move into a larger office in Western New York and will hire an additional 150 staff members for the location, according to a published report.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN TCPA FAX CASE TODAY
- The Telephone Consumer Protection Act will be front-and-center before the Supreme Court today, but only as a pawn in a more existential discussion about whether courts have a requirement to accept how a regulator interprets a statute.
WORTH NOTING: A decent summary of what happens now that Robert Mueller has submitted his report … Mocking bathtub tray ads has gone viral … Gronk has announced his retirement … My high school definitely wasn’t this ambitious … How Coach K builds winning teams … People are expecting a big announcement from Apple today … How fast food restaurants get you to spend more money … I had always wanted to try a cruise, but maybe not after reading this … Replacing the SAT with a video game … Storytelling tips to help you with your next job interview.
How stores manipulate you
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.
