PREFERRED FILES BRIEF WITH ELEVENTH CIRCUIT IN ADVANCE OF EN BANC HEARING
- Congress made a mistake when it drafted Section 1692c(b) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which prohibits communicating information about a debt with third parties because the way the statute is written, “there would be no corporate debt collectors because debt collectors would violate the FDCPA ever single time they communicated about a debt with any employee, independent contractor, or other agent — i.e., the very people a corporation needs to do anything,” argues the defendant-appellee in its brief to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in advance of next month’s hearing in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Management Services.
JUDGE GRANTS MTD IN FDCPA CASE ON ALL COUNTS BUT ONE
- When a collector is informed that a consumer is being represented by an attorney, there are not many exceptions allowing the collector to contact the consumer directly. One of those exceptions is when the attorney fails to respond within a reasonable period of time to a communication from a debt collector. But how long is reasonable? A District Court judge in Georgia has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss all claims except for one in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that not responding within eight months is not something that can be resolved at this stage in the case.
CONN. REGULATOR YANKS AGENCY’S LICENSE, IMPOSES $100K FINE, FOR NOT RESPONDING TO EXAMINATION REQUEST
- The Connecticut Department of Banking has revoked a collection agency’s license to collect in the state, while also issuing an order to cease and desist from not cooperating with the regulator, and assessed a fine of $100,000 for failing to provide information that had been requested as part of an examination of the agency.
25 COMPANIES SEEKING COLLECTION TALENT
- Click here to see a sampling of job listings in the accounts receivable management industry that have been posted recently. The listings offer insight into who is hiring, what they are offering, and opens doors to potential new opportunities.
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