Judge Recommends Summary Judgment for Debt Buyer Sued Over Collecting Time-Barred Debt
A Magistrate judge in Maryland has recommended granting summary judgment to a defendant in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act...
Judge Allows TCPA Suit Over Calls That Kept Coming After Consumer Texted ‘Stop’ to Proceed
A District Court judge in Florida has allowed most of a consumer's Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit to move forward,...
Collector Facing FCRA, FDCPA Suit Over Alleged Reporting on Recalled, Settled Account
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of a series that is sponsored by WebRecon. WebRecon identifies serial plaintiffs lurking in...
Daily Digest – August 13. Getting to Know Max Hawes of Hawes Group; Labeling Yourself a ‘Debt Collector’ Doesn’t Make What You Are Collecting a Debt, Judge Rules
Getting to Know Max Hawes of Hawes Group Max Hawes started out building operational fixes for creditor rights firms while...
NYT: Credit Counseling Demand Surges, and the Charged-Off Pipeline Grows
Consumer financial strain is deepening, and the nonprofit credit counseling sector is responding in ways that could reshape the environment...
Why Trust in AI Agents Starts With the Data Underneath
A new report from MIT Technology Review Insights, sponsored by Google Cloud, finds that the gap between AI ambition and...
N.Y. DFS Flags N-central Breach in Unusual Warning
The New York State Department of Financial Services issued a cybersecurity threat alert earlier this week, warning regulated entities of...
Mortgage Servicer NewRez to Pay $15.5M in Multi-state Enforcement Action
NewRez has agreed to pay $15.5 million to resolve a coordinated multi-state examination that found the mortgage servicer charged thousands...
Judge Trims, But Doesn’t Fully Dismiss, FCRA Suit Over Retained Dispute Notation
A District Court judge in Michigan has allowed a consumer to proceed with a negligence claim under the Fair Credit...
Labeling Yourself a ‘Debt Collector’ Doesn’t Make What You Are Collecting a Debt, Judge Rules
A District Court judge in Illinois has granted summary judgment to a defendant sued under the Fair Debt Collection Practices...
