A Federal Trade Commission report concludes that the system for resolving consumer collection disputes is broken, and recommends litigation and arbitration reforms to improve efficiency and fairness ...

In St. John v. Cach, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently issued an opinion holding that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) does not prohibit debt collectors ...

Industry representatives and consumer advocates collectively lamented the high non-appearance rate of debtors in court in debt collection cases at yesterday’s joint FTC-CFPB roundtable on the debt ...

Debt collection litigation is not following any particular pattern this year. The only certainty is that Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation is proving to be unpredictable, according to data ...

Defendant law firm Balsamo, Rosenblatt & Hall and named attorneys are "able to commence a high number of cases because they do not exercise any legal judgment to determine if the allegations they ...

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