PRESS RELEASE Indiana Consumer Law Group/The Law Office of Robert E. Duff announces the filing of a lawsuit against Midland Funding LLC, a California based debt collector, and Bowman, Heintz, Boscia & Vician, P.C., an Indiana based debt collection law firm. The lawsuit, which has been filed in the United…
PRESS RELEASE Indiana Consumer Law Group/The Law Office of Robert E. Duff announces the filing of a lawsuit against LVNV Funding LLC, a Nevada based debt collector, and Stenger & Stenger, P.C., a Michigan based debt collection law firm. The lawsuit, which has been filed in the United States District…
PRESS RELEASE Indiana Consumer Law Group/The Law Office of Robert E. Duff announces the filing of a lawsuit against Reliant Capital Solutions, LLC of Ohio. The lawsuit, which has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, alleges that Reliant Capital Solutions contacted the…
Are you receiving collection calls to a cell phone for a debt that belongs to someone else? If the calls are being made by an autodialer, you may have a claim under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). For there to be liability under the TCPA, collection calls to a…
Indiana consumers beware. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) recently released its list of the top debt collectors generating complaints for the period of February through April, 2015. Since its inception, the CFPB has received an average of over 7,000 collection-related consumer complaints a month. In fact, debt collection is…
I often receive inquiries from Indiana consumers about statutes of limitation on debt collection. A statute of limitation establishes an affirmative defense for a defendant when a lawsuit has not been filed in a timely manner. That means that a defendant can have a lawsuit dismissed when the lawsuit was…
Debt collectors and creditors often use what is called an autodialer to make calls to consumers. One of the ways you can tell an autodialer is being used is that when you answer the call you will experience a slight delay before a live person actually comes on the phone.…
PRESS RELEASE Indiana Consumer Law Group/The Law Office of Robert E. Duff announces the filing of a lawsuit against Indiana law firm Thrasher, Buschmann & Voelkel, P.C. arising out of the collection of an assessment by the Huntwick Community Association. The lawsuit, which has been filed in the United States…
On Thursday, September 18, I attended a field hearing the CFPB held in Indianapolis on auto finance. I also was invited to a private community roundtable meeting with Director Cordray prior to the hearing. I must say that I was extremely encouraged. I believe Director Cordray and the CFPB staff…
I just read an article called “Paper Boys – Inside the Dark, Labryinthine, and Extremely Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection” by Jake Halpern in the New York Times Magazine. If you have half an hour and are interested in learning about the debt buying/debt collection industry, it is a…