Brent H. on March 20th, 2009

Alabama collection lawsuits are up almost 4 times according to court documents for the U.S. District Court for North Alabama. Many of these cases are related to collection agencies collecting from the wrong person, and certain companies seem to have a very high rate of suits.
Unifund tops the list with 26 suits filed in [...]

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Brent H. on March 11th, 2009

In a very disturbing case, the 7th Circuit has ruled in favor of debt buyers by upholding a lower court decision that MCM Capital Group did not violate the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA).   In Wahl vs. Midland Credit Management, the court decided that by referencing the total amount of debt purchased as [...]

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