At Healey Law LLC, we take pride in protecting consumers from unscrupulous individuals and businesses that seek to deceive and otherwise manipulate innocent consumers. Our work has shown that some companies will violate the law in order to extract hundreds,...
Debt Collection
A Debt Collection Cautionary Tale
My colleague Dale Irwin has written a great article in the Kansas City Star regarding the utterly ridiculous state of affairs in the debt collection industry these days. What Dale is so incensed about is something that I’ve seen hundreds of times over the years...
THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION CONFIRMS IT-OVER 40 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE ERRORS IN THEIR CREDIT REPORTS
THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION CONFIRMS IT-OVER 40 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE ERRORS IN THEIR CREDIT REPORTS Recently, the Federal Trade Commission released a study which confirms what consumer advocates have known for quite some time. A significant number of...
Debt Collector Robocalls To The Wrong Cell Phone Number – A New Case from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Recently, I wrote an article which discussed the issue of debt collector liability for auto-dialed or robo-calls from an automatic or predictive dialer pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). You can review this article here:...
Debt Collection and the Law – Know Your Rights
You owe money to a debt collection agency or debt collector; you need to know what they can and cannot do in order to collect the money which they are trying to collect. You have an obligation to pay what you owe, and the debt collectors have an obligation to follow...
