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Class Action Suit Filed Against NJ Law Firm Debt Collector Pressler & Pressler
A deceptive-practices lawsuit against Pressler & Pressler, New Jersey’s largest collections firm, is moving forward as a class action. U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden in Newark certified a class of individuals who allege misrepresentations in a form letter they received...
Read MoreMidland Funding LLC Agrees to Settle Lawsuit by Minnesota Attorney General
Debt buyer Midland Funding LLC agreed to pay Minnesota $500,000 to settle a lawsuit filed last year by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson. The lawsuit accused the company of robo-signing affidavits in collection lawsuits and sometimes targeting the wrong people...
Read MoreAlleged Collection Mill Agrees To Settle Class Suit Over Cursory Case Handling
Hackensack law firm Forster, Garbus & Garbus has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle claims that it filed hundreds of debt collection suits against consumers without individual attorney review. The firm allegedly violated the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,...
Read MoreWoman Sues Capital One For Debt Collection Harassment After Letter Demanding $286 Million
(Philadelphia, PA) -A woman saying she was harassed by Capital One for a disputed $4,000 credit card debt has filed suit after the bank demanded more than $ 286 million dollars. Attorney Craig Thor Kimmel of Kimmel and Silverman, P.C., an...
Read MoreBoom in Debt Buying Fuels Another Boom in Lawsuits
Across the nation, there is a surge in lawsuits against people who aren’t paying their bills, driven by the debt-buying industry that has surged in the past three years as debt has become cheaper and cheaper to buy amid hard...
Read MoreWomen Sues Debt Collector Over FB Messages
Should Facebook be off-limits for debt collectors on the prowl? One Florida woman thinks so. Melanie Beacham, of St. Petersburg, Fla., filed a complaint against MarkOne Financial, LLC, alleging that employees of MarkOne harassed her and her family members over Facebook to...
Read MoreLawsuit Points to Alleged New Tool in Debt-Collection Arsenal: Facebook
When Melanie Beacham was on medical leave from her job last summer, she got behind on her car payments. Although she called the finance company to explain, debt collectors not only telephoned her repeatedly but found another way to make...
Read MoreDebt Collection Firm Accused of Misappropriation of Funds, Shuts Down
Chicago debt collection law firm Friedman & Wexler has apparently shut down as its fights lawsuits claiming it withheld money from clients. Calls to the law firm’s main number aren’t being answered, and an e-mail sent to one of its...
Read MoreMan Sues Kentucky Law Firm Over Debt Collection Letter
MORGANTOWN – A man has filed a punitive class action lawsuit against the Kentucky-based law firm that he says illegally sent him a debt collection letter. Nicholas Davis claims he received a letter from defendant Mapother and Mapother in June...
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