Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Debt collection

  • My story about Diana Mey of Wheeling, West Virginia and her battle to collect a $10-million judgment against some abusive debt collectors continues to alternately delight and dismay readers.
  • (ABC News)
  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants his Democratic colleague Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to lay off hospital debt-collector Accretive Health, which is based in the Windy City.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, never one to avoid the fray or back off from a fight, has waded into a battle between a hometown company and the Minnesota Attorney General's probe of the firm's medical debt collection practices.
  • (Forbes)
  • In its first five months of implementation, Access Receivables Nice People Collect More debt recovery strategy yielded a 40% increase over average collections previously established.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Turns out nice guys may not always finish last. Access Receivables, a Baltimore-based debt collection agency, is finding success using a novel approach to its business: Just being nice.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The company also last week filed a motion to dismiss the suit, which alleges the company violated patient-privacy and debt collection laws when a laptop containing private data on 23,500 patients was stolen from an employees car.
  • (Chicago Tribune)
  • Anyone who thinks they got away with blowing off a citation written in Fulton County -- even a decade ago -- should think again.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  • The Governments crackdown on GST will continue for another two years after the Government said it will provide an additional $195 million to the Australian Taxation Office to extend its GST compliance program.
  • (smartcompany.com.au)

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