Recent Posts in Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC Category
Posted on Oct 26, 2015 By Jesse Langel, Esq.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB"), the federal government's consumer-protection muscle levied stiff penalties against Encore Capital Group (the parent to Midland Funding, ...
Continue reading "CFPB Stiffly Penalizes Midland Funding and Portfolio Recovery Associates for Collection Defects" »
Posted on Aug 9, 2012 By Langel Law Firm
In this case [1] , before the court on the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"), debt buyer Portfolio Recovery ...
Continue reading "Portfolio Recovery Associates May Not Send Consumers "Pre-Suit Packages," Says Court" »
Posted on May 29, 2012 By Sheril Stanford
As we reported in Making Statutes of Limitations Work for You, Portfolio Recovery Assoc. v. King, a 2010 New York Court of Appeals decision, sent ripples through the debt collection industry because ...
Continue reading "Malen & Associates Loses Bid to Limit Portfolio Recovery v King to Post-2010 Cases" »
Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Jesse Langel, Esq.
The behemoth debt buyer, Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRA), is accused of filing thousands of affidavits allegedly signed by a woman -- after she died. With their employees signing "on ...
Continue reading "Portfolio Recovery Associates caught filing defective affidavits" »