APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS DISMISSAL OF ‘SHOTGUN’ FDCPA, FCRA, TCPA CASE
- The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has partially overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against a number of defendants alleging they violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, ruling that the third amended complaint filed by the plaintiff was not filled with “shotgun pleadings.”
ARIZONA SENATE PASSES BILL ALLOWING PARTIAL PAYMENT TO REVIVE SOL
- A bill has been passed in the Arizona Senate and is now working its way through the Arizona House of Representatives that would restart the statute of limitations to file lawsuits to collect on unpaid debts when a partial payment is made.
CFPB EMPLOYEES WORKING FROM HOME AFTER CONTRACTOR TESTS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
- Employees at the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., and its regional field office in New York are working from home this week after a contractor who was working at the D.C. office of the bureau tested positive for the coronavirus.
JUDGE AWARDS $42k IN SANCTIONS TO DEFENDANT IN FDCPA CASE
- A District Court judge in Connecticut has awarded a defendant nearly $42,000 in fees and costs after it was sued and won a motion for summary judgment for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not using its proper name in a collection letter sent to the plaintiff.
DID YOU PLAN FOR THE WRONG DISASTER?
- Manny Newburger and Tom Good from Barron & Newburger pose a number of poignant questions that companies in the collection industry should be asking themselves these days, to make sure that people are not overlooking important business and compliance details.
WORTH NOTING: How to clean surfaces that may have coronavirus on them … The best things you can do to protect yourself … Amazon is hiring 100,000 workers thanks to a spike in sales … Things you can do to help local businesses who are likely feeling the pinch … Things to do while you are stuck inside … What it means to self-quarantine … For anyone who quickly needs to upgrade their home office … Everything that is being released for free to help people get through this crisis.
Things to make working from home easier
Things that rich people don’t spend their money on
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.
APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS DISMISSAL OF ‘SHOTGUN’ FDCPA, FCRA, TCPA CASE
- The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has partially overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against a number of defendants alleging they violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, ruling that the third amended complaint filed by the plaintiff was not filled with “shotgun pleadings.”
ARIZONA SENATE PASSES BILL ALLOWING PARTIAL PAYMENT TO REVIVE SOL
- A bill has been passed in the Arizona Senate and is now working its way through the Arizona House of Representatives that would restart the statute of limitations to file lawsuits to collect on unpaid debts when a partial payment is made.
CFPB EMPLOYEES WORKING FROM HOME AFTER CONTRACTOR TESTS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
- Employees at the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., and its regional field office in New York are working from home this week after a contractor who was working at the D.C. office of the bureau tested positive for the coronavirus.
JUDGE AWARDS $42k IN SANCTIONS TO DEFENDANT IN FDCPA CASE
- A District Court judge in Connecticut has awarded a defendant nearly $42,000 in fees and costs after it was sued and won a motion for summary judgment for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not using its proper name in a collection letter sent to the plaintiff.
DID YOU PLAN FOR THE WRONG DISASTER?
- Manny Newburger and Tom Good from Barron & Newburger pose a number of poignant questions that companies in the collection industry should be asking themselves these days, to make sure that people are not overlooking important business and compliance details.
WORTH NOTING: How to clean surfaces that may have coronavirus on them … The best things you can do to protect yourself … Amazon is hiring 100,000 workers thanks to a spike in sales … Things you can do to help local businesses who are likely feeling the pinch … Things to do while you are stuck inside … What it means to self-quarantine … For anyone who quickly needs to upgrade their home office … Everything that is being released for free to help people get through this crisis.
Things to make working from home easier
Things that rich people don’t spend their money on
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.
