Collector Facing FDCPA, TCPA Class Action for Making Calls After Consent was Revoked
- A collection operation is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practice Act as well as state law in Ohio for attempting to communicate with the plaintiff via his cell phone after he revoked consent to be communicated and for sending a Model Validation Notice that did not provide at least 30 days for the debt to be disputed.
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‘Wilder West’ of Oversight Coming for Consumer Financial Services: Panel
- NEW YORK — There is clearly going to be a vacuum with respect to rulemaking, supervision, and enforcement of consumer financial services companies for at least the next three-plus years, and the expectation is that states will fill that void, but there are genuine questions about how states are going to accomplish that with limited staffs and budgets and the bigger problem for companies in this industry may be at the lower levels of government, a panel of compliance experts discussed yesterday at the New York City Bar’s Consumer Financial Law Institute. The program was chaired by Don Maurice of Maurice Wutscher.
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Appeals Court Affirms Ruling in Favor of Defendant in FCRA Case
- The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a trial ruling in favor of a defendant that was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by reporting inaccurate information to the credit reporting agencies and for not reasonably investigating disputes filed by the plaintiff.
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Compliance Digest – May 6
- Read what a handful of legal experts — Stefanie Jackman, Brendan Little, Nick Prola, and Nabil Foster — have to say on recent case rulings and a series of states enacting medical debt credit reporting and collection laws in this week’s Compliance Digest.
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