Litigation Landscape in West Virginia
ACA Cast
English - September 02, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBusiness News Business News debt collection debt collectors debt collector arm aca international aca cast aca debt collection industry collection agencies collection agency Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Historically, West Virginia has been known for its draconian collection laws. But since 2015, an unsuspecting litigation trend has surfaced. Industry leaders have recognized an increase in class action filings in West Virginia and two of those leaders want to tell ACA Members why. What once was a predicable award for damages pursuant to an individual cause of action under the West Virginia Consumer and Credit Protection Act has morphed into a potential catastrophic class action payout.
Jeff Turner, partner at the law firm of Surdyk, Dowd & Turner in Ohio and Nick Mooney, Partner at the law firm of Spilman, Thomas, and Battle in its Charleston, West Virginia office, discuss why consumer attorneys prefer to file class actions in the state of West Virginia instead of filing in federal court pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act in the latest episode of ACA Cast titled, “Litigation Landscape in West Virginia: What Debt Collectors should know about the 2015 Amendments to the Consumer and Credit Protection Act”.