A: You are a target if you do not strictly follow the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). See 15 U.S.C. s. 1692, et seq. The FDCPA prohibits debt collectors from using abusive, unfair, or ...

LITTLE ROCK – Consumers who have fallen behind on paying their bills — and even some who haven’t — are most likely familiar with incessant calls from some debt collection agencies. Attorney General ...

On November 13, 2020, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET, we will present a webinar on the CFPB’s final collection rule. Our blog post series has detailed a number of ways in which the CFPB’s final debt ...

Medical bills can quickly spiral, so you need to understand your legal exposure if the debt goes to collections.

A federal district court in Louisville, Kentucky, erred in dismissing a woman's suit against an attorney for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

Joseph Onwuteaka is in the debt-buying business, paying pennies on the dollar for old consumer debt written off long ago by banks, payday loan companies and retailers. From a small office on the edge ...

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During the foreclosure crisis, a number of lenders, servicers, law firms, and others engaged in a practice where employees basically rubber-stamped thousands of foreclosure cases without reviewing any ...

The House of Representatives will vote on a dangerous bill, H.R. 5082, called the Practice of Law Technical Clarification Act of 2018 sponsored by Reps. Alexander Mooney (R-W.Va.) and Vicente Gonzalez ...