Daily Digest - March 18, 2025

Brought to you by: TCN’s C3 User Conference | By Mike Gibb

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Mike Gibb
March 18, 2025

🎂🎉 Happy Birthday to: Dewey Ensley of Radius Global Solutions, Brad Haynes of RevSpring. Happy belated Birthday to: Kat O’Brien of UHG (March 17). 🥳🎁

🏀 NCAA March Madness Pool 🏀

AccountsRecovery is excited to once again host an NCAA men’s college basketball pool for the credit and collection industry. Free to participate. Prizes to the winner. Enter as many times as you like. Submissions must be in by Thursday at 12pm ET.

Logo Madness is Back!

AccountsRecovery is once again thrilled to be hosting it’s annual Logo Madness tournament, to identify the best logo in the credit and collection industry. This year’s competition is sponsored by Drop Cowboy.

NEW DATA SOURCING SURVEY … CLOSING SOON

This is your last chance to participate in a data sourcing survey, sponsored by Spokeo. Click here to share your insights.

Plaintiff Sues for Not Being Able to Arbitrate

  • We’ve all seen cases where a consumer files a lawsuit against a company in the credit and collection industry and the company then seeks to invoke the arbitration clause that was included in the original agreement between the consumer and the creditor. But what you don’t see everyday is the flipside of that — a consumer filing a lawsuit because he was not allowed to invoke an arbitration clause after he was sued by a company for not paying a debt.

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Judge Denies Motion from Plaintiff to Reconsider Standing in FDCPA Case

  • A Magistrate Court judge in Wisconsin has denied a plaintiff’s motion to alter a judgment which ruled he did not have standing to pursue claims the defendant violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, finding that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate a concrete injury that could be linked to the defendant’s alleged misconduct.

  • More details here.

Trade Groups Petition FCC to Delay TCPA Rule Amid Deregulation Push

  • A number of trade groups from across the financial services industry, including ACA International, have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to delay the enactment of a rule related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that is scheduled to go into effect next month. Meanwhile, the FCC has launched a deregulation initiative and is seeking comment on all existing FCC rules that may create unnecessary regulatory burdens.

  • More details here.

Oklahoma Bill Would Shield Some Medical Debt from Credit Reports

  • A bill is under consideration in the Oklahoma legislature that would prohibit certain medical debts from being reported to credit bureaus, preventing them from impacting consumers’ credit scores.

  • More details here.

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