Unpaid debt is creating a boon for lawyers across the country, who are being inundated with calls for help from companies desperate to collect money owed to them. The work is going to debt collection ...

Debt collectors rarely disappear on their own. Old balances can be sold, resold, and pursued in different ways for years, ...

The Third Circuit says the continuing violation theory cannot be applied to a debt collection suit. The ruling affirms a decision by a District Court judge, dismissing the suit. The plaintiff claimed ...

With federal oversight in retreat, deep-pocketed collection companies are aggressively pursuing down-and-out consumers who are struggling with record levels of credit card debt. Meanwhile, consumer ...

In March 2013, Mississippi dead debt buyer-collector Security Credit Services LLC and debt collection law firm Jacob Law Group PLLC settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint in a Georgia federal ...

No one ever notified tens of thousands of New Yorkers in financial trouble that they were embroiled in a debt-related lawsuits. Courts handed out default judgments and froze assets, to the surprise of ...