Under the Utah Worker’s Compensation Act, debt collection agencies are not allowed to collect worker’s compensation medical debts from injured workers. Instead, worker’s compensation insurance is required to pay. This is true under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act as well. Worker’s Compensation Medical Collection Efforts Work injuries are tragic. To make matters worse for … Read more
Stopping collections and credit reporting of fraudulent accounts can be a difficult and time-consuming process. There are steps you can take however to protect your credit reports and prevent lawsuits against you for debt you don’t owe. Follow these ten essential tips to simplify the process of creating and using an effective Identity Theft Report … Read more
If you have received a collection letter or series of collection letters from Midland Credit Management, Midland Funding, or any other company that make false legal threats or deceptive representations you can fight back. Midland Credit Management, Midland Funding, and other related companies are blanketing the country with threats and statements that are sometimes false. … Read more
Debt collectors are eager to take your Coronavirus stimulus payment. In many cases they will seek to garnish the stimulus money right from your bank account. Congress has not entered any legislation to protect these payments from seizures by debt collectors but there are still a few ways to protect your Covid-19 stimulus payment. Get … Read more
By law, a statute of limitations prohibits collection agencies from suing you for old debts. The limitation period varies for different kinds of debt and can be re-started under certain circumstances so never assume a debt collector is barred from collecting a debt under the statute of limitations simply because the applicable time period has … Read more
There are many misconceptions about whether or not an arrest warrant can be issued by a court of law for failing to pay debt. A recent article from the Standard Examiner entitled “Utah courts increase use of civil bench warrants to compel debt payments” shows how easily some of these misconceptions are spread. And that … Read more
Parking Solutions, a Salt Lake City, Utah based company, issues tickets and immobilizes vehicles for various businesses around the Salt Lake valley. In some of these cases, they are doing so illegally. Parking Solutions’ deceptive practices One typical scenario occurs in the parking lot on the corner of 600 East and 400 South in Salt … Read more
Identity fraud can be financially and emotionally devastating. According to some studies, victims of identity theft suffer the same emotional harm suffered by victims of violent crime. Even those that don’t, still suffer from devastating financial loss and a massive consumption of time to repair the damage done to their credit. Here are a few … Read more
Identity fraud increased 16 percent in 2016 with a record 15.4 million Americans falling prey to one form of identity theft or another according to the new 2017 Identity Fraud Study from Javelin Strategy & Research. The total amount stolen in 2016 also increased to $16 billion dollars. Card-not-present online fraud saw the biggest increase … Read more
Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its recently completed Consumer Experiences with Debt Collection survey. The survey provides a comprehensive insight into consumer experiences with debt collection activity which occurs when a debt collector, collection attorney, or collection agency contacts consumers to collect unpaid debts. These debts include various past due loan and bill … Read more
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