Daily Digest - April 3, 2025

🎂🎉 Happy Birthday to: Rakesh Manjunath of TrueML, Carlos Ortiz of Thompson Coburn, and Scott Ogden of SCJ Commercial Financial Services. 🥳🎁

Congratulations to John Griffith, the new Vice President of Collections at Momentum Financial Services Group, Jessica Duniaski, who was promoted to Production and Training Manager at Financial Recovery Services, and Bryan Paed, who was promoted to Training Manager at The CBE Companies.

Getting to Know Stephanie Strickler of Messer Strickler Burnette

• Like many, Stephanie Strickler has family to thank for getting her start in the credit and collection industry. And unless the opportunity to open a wine and cheese shop presents itself one day, she’ll be happy to stay here. Perhaps it’s the combination of her loves of true crime and jigsaw puzzles that led her to become a lawyer. Read on to learn more about Stephanie, why she has a newfound respect for working moms, and what music helps get her focused and productive in the morning.

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Judge Grants MSJ for Defendant in FDCPA Case Over Convenient Mode of Communication

• If you have ever listened to an attorney on one of my webinars talk about the differences between filing a motion to dismiss and a motion for summary judgment, they will tell you that the motion for summary judgment allows them to gather evidence, such as deposing the plaintiff. That step can get a plaintiff to say, for example, that when she claimed receiving mail is inconvenient and that a collection operation shouldn’t send her any more mail, what she meant was that it was inconvenient to get the type of mail that may include financial information, which was one of the reasons why a District Court judge granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case.

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California Pushes to Fill Gap Being Left by CFPB

• The California legislature is pushing a bill that would enhance the powers of the state’s top financial to oversee businesses traditionally governed by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As the federal government scales back its consumer protection efforts, the bill aims to fill the void left by the CFPB’s reduced oversight, especially in light of the changes initiated under the Trump administration.

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RCM Company Suffers Data Breach

• A healthcare revenue cycle management company recently notified the Massachusetts Attorney General about a data breach. The breach, which occurred between March 18 and March 24, 2024, involved an unauthorized party accessing files stored on a third-party hosting service and impacted a handful of healthcare providers.

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WORTH NOTING: As Spring blooms around the country, here are some great gift ideas for the gardeners in your life ... Understanding the physics of "torpedo" baseball bats ... Morgan Wallen is capitalizing on his early exit from "Saturday Night Live" ... A lot of older Americans agree that debt has "held them back" in life ... The continent is literally dripping away beneath our feet ... How to get over rejection at work ... A handful of takeaways from yesterday's tariffs announcement ... How job postings lead companies to hire narcissists.

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