In March 1996, Portfolio Recovery Associates opened its doors in the Pembroke area of Virginia Beach with four employees. The company went public in 2002 and now has operations in 10 states including ...

"CFPB orders are not suggestions, and companies cannot ignore them simply because they are large or dominant in the market," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said after announcing a $24 million settlement ...

They garnished my wages and placed a lien on my house. They took more money than I owed and extended my garnishment by 6 months. I wrote to them with proof of overpayment twice and they still stole ...

Good afternoon. Thank you for joining Portfolio Recovery Associates Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call. Your host for the call today will be Steve Fredrickson, PRA's Chairman, President and ...

A debt collection agency has been ordered to pay $83 million to a Missouri woman after a jury decided that the agency 'maliciously prosecuted' her to collect a debt she did not owe. Maria Guadalupe ...

We’ve all heard horror stories about predatory lenders. How about predatory collection agencies? Just ask Thomas Rizzo or Gloria Morrissette, or the countless others who fell for the deliberately ...

Maria Guadalupe Mejia Alcantara hopes that as a result of damages assessed against a debt collection firm as part of a counterclaim filed on her behalf, other families won’t have to suffer what she ...

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC (Portfolio Recovery) agreed to pay $18 million to end multi-district litigation against the debt collection company for its alleged violations of the Telephone ...

Debt buyer Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc., based in Norfolk, Va. and operating in the U.S. and U.K., announced Tuesday the acquisition of certain operating assets from Pamplona Capital Management ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Portfolio Recovery Associates, a Virginia-based debt acquisition and recovery firm, plans to expand its Birmingham operations with the addition of 200 call center jobs, the ...

Equifax and Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC were sued Friday in Florida Southern District Court for claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The lawsuit, filed by the Law Office of Jason ...

Jibril Greene of Seyfarth Shaw and Winnie N. Kibe and Whitney L. White of Sessions, Israel & Shartle have entered appearances for Equifax and Jefferson Capital Systems, respectively, in a pending ...