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201 East Kennedy Blvd., Suite 600
Tampa, FL 33602
Toll Free: 866.553.3272
Phone: 813.314.4595
Fax: 813.314.4555
Debt Harassment News:
Read the article regarding Attorney General Bill McCollum and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink reining in abusive debt collectors. Read more...
Suncoast Vacations
Saxon Gilmore represented two consumers against Suncoast Vacations. As a result of our efforts, the company decided not to pursue the charge for a vacation rental package, which was contested by our clients.
Equilease Residential Services, LLC
A federal judge in the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, recently entered a judgment for statutory damages against Equilease Residential Services, LLC and in favor of our clients pursuant to the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act. The Court approved the full amount of statutory damages sought by our clients.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
(a) There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptcies, to marital instability, to the loss of jobs, and to invasions of individual privacy.
(b) Existing laws and procedures for redressing these injuries are inadequate to protect consumers.
(c) Means other than misrepresentation or other abusive debt collection practices are available for the effective collection of debts.
(d) Abusive debt collection practices are carried on to a substantial extent in interstate commerce and through means and instrumentalities of such commerce. Even where abusive debt collection practices are purely intrastate in character, they nevertheless directly affect interstate commerce.
(e) It is the purpose of this title to eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors, to insure that those debt collectors who refrain from using abusive debt collection practices are not competitively disadvantaged, and to promote consistent State action to protect consumers against debt collection abuses.