Debt Collection Companies Beware: A Slew of Lawsuits Are Coming
By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/21
Yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., -- F.3d --, 2021 WL 1556069 (Apr. 21, 2021), which almost immediately set off alarms in the debt collection industry. In that case, the plaintiff alleged that a debt collector had violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) by electronically transmitting information concerning a consumer’s debt to its mail vendor for the sole purpose of sending a...
By: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck