By: Robert J. Nahoum National Collegiate Student Loan Trust (NCSLT) is a unique “junk debt buyer†that few people have ever heard of. NCSLT is in the business of specifically buying private student loans from banks. Much like the mortgages involved in the financial and foreclosure crisis of just a few years ago, private student loans are packaged together as […]
Student Loan Debt Buyer National Collegiate Student Loan Settles Claims of Unfair Debt Collection Practices with the Federal Government
Consumer Watchdog The National Consumer Law Center Has Issued Key Steps to Minimize Risk After Equifax Data Breach
Consumer Watchdog The National Consumer Law Center® (NCLC®), has issued the following key steps to minimize risk from the Equifax data breach: “Determining Whether the Client Has Been Affected It is very likely that any client with a credit history is one of the 143 million adult Americans whose personal information was exposed in a data breach at Equifax, one […]
Palisades Collection and its Lawyers Pressler & Pressler Settle New York FDCPA Claims for $3.9 Million and Reversal of 48,000 default judgments
By: Robert J. Nahoum In 2014, a lawsuit was filed against New Jersey-based, publicly traded, junk debt buyer Asta Funding, its subsidiary Palisades Collection and their attorneys Pressler and Pressler. The suit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), a federal law that […]
The Equifax Data Breach
By: Robert J. Nahoum Equifax, one of the nation’s top credit reporting agencies, recently reported that the private data of roughly 143 million Americans had been compromised due a security hack. It was also revealed that Equifax did not make the hack publicly known until a month and half after Equifax became aware and after Equifax management sold millions of […]