Using a letter vendor is ruled an unauthorized third-party communication. What else then?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit delivered a very novel and consequential interpretation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act that could prove transformative for debt collectors and their third-party service providers. And while apparently focused on the collection agency industry, it’s application could have reaching effects to the repossession forwarding industry and perhaps the agencies themselves.
11th Circuit Court Ruling Opens an FDCPA Pandora’s Box of Consequences
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