My friend and fellow consumer advocate, John Watts, attorney with Watts Law Group and blogger over at AlabamaconsumerLawBlog.com, has recently posted an article about Portfolio Recovery Associates a debt collector they are suing for repeatedly (and illegally) calling their client's...
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Dealing with a collection agency can be a stressful experience. Not only are some debt collectors rude, but endless demanding telephone calls and letters can shake even the toughest individual. The stress and confusion that debt collectors can cause often...
Even in a good economy, the debt collector comes knocking. However, in a bad economy, he knocks a little bit louder and a lot longer. As the unemployment rate climbs and fewer people can make good on their debts -debt...
It isn't just the economy that's sinking to new lows, many debt collectors are too! Listen to abusive, threatening and harassing phone calls from debt collectors who continue to violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Dianne McLeod, is suing...
This week the Better Business Bureau issued a national warning consumers about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers nationwide and claiming that they have defaulted on a payday loan and will be arrested if they don't pay immediately. The...
According to an eye-opening BusinessWeek article, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced that the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) the same company she recently filed suit against, has agreed to stop deciding consumer arbitration cases! In an explosive suit filed on...
As an update to yesterday's blog on bank employees speaking out against predatory practices -today comes with claims that some bank employees felt forced to take part in illegal debt collection practices as well as"pushing premium services to those who...
This week brings news that the National Consumer Law Center and Public Justice's Mandatory Arbitration Abuse Prevention Project helped win a major victory for consumers. In Komarova v. National Credit Acceptance, Inc., the California Court of Appeal held -- as...
In a press release today, TransUnion and FDCPA Case Listing Service announced a partnership that will allow TU to help debt collectors and creditors figure out which consumers have previously been involved in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuits. This...
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