Jury Awards $500,000 To California Couple In FDCPA Case
Posted June 13, 2010 – 12:10 pm in: CreditLast month, Manuel and Luz Fausto won one of the largest collection awards documented in the last couple of years under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) against Credigy Services Corporation. A California jury awarded the Faustos $500,000 in damages caused from harassment by Credigy collectors. Of the sum, granted $100,000 was for actual damages the Faustos experienced, while $400,000 was in punitive damages, granted for malicious and reckless disregard of the couples rights. According to one of the Faustos lawyers, David Humphreys of Humphreys Wallace Humphreys, P.C., and the case stemmed from a debt on a Wells Fargo charge card opened in 1992.
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Collection Industry Tries A Different Approach In A Rough Economy
Posted April 13, 2010 – 9:33 am in: Debt ConsolidationThe debt collection industry’s techniques might be taking a turn for the….better? Bearing in mind the number of recent lawsuits against bill collectors, ACA International, the largest trade group of professional creditors and collectors, alleges more and more collection companies are working towards training collectors to take a more of an empathetic position.
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