On September 24, California enacted a series of consumer protection laws, including three bills aimed specifically at restricting certain debt collection practices in connection with medical debt reporting, civil actions for money judgments, and commercial debt collection.
Another day, another story about a court refusing to enforce a third-party lead. In Hall v. Schwartz, 2024 WL 4335509 (S.D. Oh. Sept. 27, 2024) the defendant had purchased a third-party Medicare lead from the Leads Warehouse for Medicare. The Defendant had used a pre-recorded greeting to initiate the contact and then a live agent was to join the call.
Digital Federal Credit Union and First Tech Federal Credit Union have announced plans to merge, the credit unions said in a Monday (Sept. 30) news release. If the merger is approved by the National Credit Union Administration and First Tech’s membership, the new credit union will be worth $28.7 billion and have nearly 2 million customers across eight states, the companies said in the release.
Telecom giant T-Mobile will pay a $31.5 million fine to settle investigations with the Federal Communications Commission for past data breaches that exposed the personal data of millions of customers.
This summer, the First Circuit revived a privacy class action based on debt collection practices. In Nightingale v National Grid USA Service Company, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and denied class certification. On appeal, the First Circuit vacated and remanded, focusing its analysis on (1) whether the Plaintiff alleged a cognizable injury and (2) whether the injuries alleged met the predominance requirement to certify the putative class.
.jpg)
.jpg)