Blog Posts in June, 2011

We came across this great ABC News video about debt collector tactics on YouTube. The video, in which ABC has assembled a collection of tapes of abusive and harassing telephone calls from consumers ...

The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs has implemented a new program it is calling “Protect Your Money.” You may have seen it advertised on the front and back pages of today’s AM New York ...

Today we report on yet another case of robosigning, this time involving Bank of America. In a new decision from Nassau County (NY) Supreme Court, reported in today’s New York Law Journal, the court ...

Interesting news from JP Morgan Chase on Friday (6/24/2011). The bank has dropped over a thousand debt collection lawsuits pending in five different states. According to an article in The Wall Street ...

We recently wrote in this space about a controversial proposed class action settlement in a federal case pending in Ohio against debt buyer Encore Capital Group and its collections unit Midland ...

We’ve heard a lot about “robo-signing” – the practice of debt collectors robotically signing off on hundreds, sometimes thousands, of boilerplate affidavits without verifying the information contained ...