Common Use of Third-Party Mail Vendors is Actionable Under the FDCPA
By EsqSocial Corporation 27/04/21
In its just-released decision, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has potentially created a new claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). In Richard Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., the Court examined a district court's dismissal of a novel argument – one that the decision itself notes is a question of first impression. The issue brought before the Court was whether a debt collector's sharing of information with a vendor is a violation of the...
By: Baker Donelson