Earlier this week, InsideArm identified a subtle change to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s website that may reflect an unannounced change in the regulations governing third-party collection agencies in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s website now indicates the following:
The Attorney General has issued debt collection regulations that establish standards by defining unfair and deceptive acts
On September 12, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interim final rule which provided a model Summary of Rights form, a form that both consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) and employers doing background checks use for compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. CRAs and employers are required to implement revisions to the form
Employers and consumer reporting agencies beware: a change to a commonly used form required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) becomes effective on September 21, 2018, and the price of non-compliance could be class action lawsuits.
On September 21, 2018, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act’s changes to the FCRA Summary
On Wednesday, May 23, from 3 – 4 pm ET, Troutman Sanders attorneys, Alan Wingfield, Wendy Sugg, and Meagan Mihalko presented a webinar discussing employment-purpose background screening laws. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act imposes technical paperwork requirements on employers desiring to obtain background screenings, and many millions of dollars have been paid in individual
On May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch, held that employers can include a clause in their employment contracts that requires employees to arbitrate their disputes individually and to waive the right to resolve those disputes through class actions and other joint proceedings. The Court ruled such
On Wednesday, May 23, from 3 – 4 pm ET, Troutman Sanders attorneys, Alan Wingfield, Wendy Sugg, and Meagan Mihalko will present a webinar discussing employment-purpose background screening laws. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act imposes technical paperwork requirements on employers desiring to obtain background screenings, and many millions of dollars have been paid in
On March 9, PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. moved to dismiss a class action complaint filed by Damian McCoy in the Western District of Pennsylvania. McCoy sued PNC after his conditional employment offer was revoked when a 2011 arrest was discovered during his criminal background check. Allegedly, the report indicated that the felony and misdemeanor
DirecTV was on the receiving end of a proposed class action in the Central District of California earlier this week alleging the direct broadcast satellite service provider violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act and California state law by pulling credit reports on consumers without a permissible purpose. A copy of the complaint is available here
The Seventh Circuit recently heard argument in Robertson v. Allied Solutions LLC after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed a class action while the plaintiff’s motion for preliminary approval of class settlement was pending. Although the motion was pending, the district court dismissed the case against Allied Solutions in light
A Florida jury awarded $70.6 million to Samantha Baca, a former stewardess on the Endless Summer yacht in connection with a claim that the boat’s owner failed to protect her from being sexually assaulted by a co-worker in February 2015.
The $70.6 million award included $70,000 in lost wages, $4.2 million in lost future wages,