While the debt collection industry spent 2022 focused on Regulation F and the Hunstein cases, consumer attorneys remained diligent in filing a record number of other FDCPA lawsuits against debt collectors again in 2022. Further, the most effective strategies for defeating these FDCPA cases shifted recently, with motions to dismiss again being considered “the first arrow from the quiver” used by debt collectors to prevail in some of these matters.
In the latest episode of the Debt Collection Drill video series, Moss & Barnett attorneys Aylix Jensen and Mike Poncin discuss specific techniques and strategies that debt collectors are using to defeat recent FDCPA cases, including the use of motions to dismiss and arbitration clauses.