7/15/06
Library to use collection agency
Times Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton - Dayton,OH,USA
NEW CARLISLE - The New Carlisle Public Library has decided to use a collection agency that specializes in libraries to encourage patrons with overdue materials ...

7/14/06
Bay Citys parking ambassadors to crack down on violators
MLive.com - MI,USA
... More possible changes include reporting repeat offenders to a collection agency and incremental ticketing or increased fines for repeat offenders, said Candace ...

Even in collections, bad debt mounts
Bankrate.com - USA
... misconception is that once you stop making payments on your credit card debt, and it is written off or is turned over to a collection agency, any applicable ...

7/13/06
Agency to track down village deadbeats
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan,IL,USA
GURNEE � The village has hired a collection agency to go after nearly $350,000 in delinquent accounts. Those who are in arrears ...

A light touch recovers books from unlikely places
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Unique Management Services. Unique Management Services isn't exactly the Break-A-Leg Collection Agency. But its approach appears ...

City to send bill collectors after scofflaws
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
... Property owners who have ignored bills from the city for demolition of structures they didn't keep up could soon be getting a call from a collection agency. ...

7/12/06
Debt Collectors: The Good, the Bad...
Washington Post - United States
... Including business and personal purchases by collection agency owners and workers, the industry directly and indirectly supported a total of 426,700 American ...

7/11/06
Library program collects over half-million dollars
Hillsboro Argus - Hillsboro,OR,USA
... Since the program's inception in January 2004, the collection agency contracted by the library system has processed 7,611 patron accounts, said WCCLS Manager ...

7/9/06
ReliaBid Service Promises to Ward Off eBay Deadbeats
Auctionbytes - USA
... bidders. A service from ReliaBid promises to tackle this challenge by bringing sellers together with a collection agency. ReliaBid ...

7/7/06
County Council wants help collecting funds
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... located. The county hopes to hire a collection agency in the next few months, but believes other steps must be taken. Council asked ...

Scofflaws, beware New parking rules will raise, toughen penalties
Brattleboro Reformer - VT, United States
... He said the town will be consider hiring a collection agency to ensure it gets the money, and will also add the option to pay by credit card or debit card. ...

Collection Agency Gets Selectmen OK
Westport-News - Westport,CT,USA
... Selectman Gordon Joseloff asked: "Any complaints?" Peggy Klein, the assistant tax collector, replied, "Very, very few & considering it is a collection agency.". ...


7/6/06
Book Crook Lesson Took
Nashville Scene - TN, USA
... A few weeks passed and an official-looking letter showed up in our mailbox. It was from a collection agency and it ordered me to hand in my books OR ELSE. ...

7/5/06
Court budget request gets axed
Whitefish Pilot - Whitefish,MT,USA
... up?". When councilor Cris Coughlin asked why the court didn't hire a collection agency, Abel said they had considered the idea. "We ...

In Defense of Debt Collection
Ludwig von Mises Institute - Auburn,AL,USA
... Now, the story in question cites a number of cases when the credit collection agency apparently went after the wrong person and behaved imperviously to protests ...

7/4/06
An Outcry Rises as Debt Collectors Play Rough
New York Times - United States
...The bank agreed that the charges were not valid, but the debt case hung on because the bank turned it over to a collection agency. ...

Oxford targets scofflaws for $1.8M in unpaid fines
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
Aldermen met this past week with a local law firm that it might hire as a collection agency for the unpaid fines dating back to 2001. ...

Library faces challenges with missing books
News-Daily.com - Jonesboro,GA,USA
... But Stewart said this is difficult because Clayton is such a transient county and they are looking to begin using a collection agency. ...
 
6/30/06
Debt Collectors Go To Extremes To Get Money
KDKA - Pittsburg,PA,USA
... us,� recalled Mary. Mary owed money to a debt collection agency for a $400 internet loan she was late in paying. �I thought I ... 6/29/06

Pay taxes by Friday or pay a lot more
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Bills will rise 41 percent if they go unpaid and are turned over to a collection agency Saturday, said county Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt. ...

6/28/06
Lee County supervisors reject plan to double wheel tax
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA
... Later in the meeting, the board agreed to a request by a collection agency presently under contract for delinquent collections to continue efforts on 32 ...

Mind Your Business
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... It's reached a point with this deadbeat where you need to use a collection agency, according to Leonard Sklar, a Redwood City collection expert and author of ...

If payments to you are overdue, then collect without further ado
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... pay if they know failure to do so will hurt their credit rating, result in interest charges or cause you to refer their account to a collection agency or lawyer ...

Mind Your Commercial Credit Score
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In addition to payment history, a commercial or business credit report can include information on collection agency activity, bank and insurance data and ...

6/27/06
CDA loan Delinquency at 60 percent
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
... "We have a very good arrangement. Even if we refer the case to a collection agency, the client can still come here to work with us," he said.

GOVERNMENT: Town uses friendly collecton agency to get back taxes
Ridgefield Press - CT, USA
Starting last month, motor vehicle and personal property taxes left unpaid since July of 2004 will be handed over to a collection agency. ...

Council OHs boost in parking costs
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... Also, people who have amassed hundreds or thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets should be turned over to a collection agency. ...

Creditors look for new solutions to address recoveries challenge
ClickPress (press release) - Sharjah,United Arab Emirates
... Mon Jun 26 2006] Major creditors are seeking a new approach to debt recovery to drive performance beyond their traditional collection agency. ...

6/26/06
Outstanding fines
Northwest Arkansas Times - Fayetteville,AR,USA
... Unique Management Services, Inc., a collection agency which works exclusively with libraries, will be helping to lower those numbers beginning in August. ...

America's fastest-growing small public companies
CNNMoney.com - USA
... shoppers and economists alike try to divine the next boom or bust, our list provides one unscientific indicator: The first debt collection agency appeared on ...

Souls On Ice
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
... logistics. He has also hired a collection agency to try to track down patients and force them to make a resolution. His "biggest ...

6/23/06
Spitzer sues NJ collection agency
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
New York State's attorney general has accused a Saddle River businessman and his Rutherford-based national debt collection agency of using abusive and illegal ...

6/22/06
City serious about collections
Gadsden County Times - Quincy,FL,USA
... Last wee Bogan said that he turned $43,000 of the delinquent bills over to a collection agency as an experiment to see if the agency can collect the bills ...

Phoney Collections Scam in Anderson County
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
... dollars. Callers claiming to be from the collection agency then call the victims, but can't explain the source of the debt. Police ...

6/21/06
School puts fear of collector into parents
Chicago Daily Southtown - Chicago,IL,USA
... of students and parents flocked to pay $90,153 in late fees in the two months after Lockport Township High School announced it was hiring a collection agency. ...

6/18/06
New technology is making district attorneys' bogus check crime ...
Enid News & Eagle - Enid,OK,USA
... She has called the retailer's mid-November announcement to switch to a private collection agency "... rather devastating news." ...
               
Springfield targets tax debtors
The Republican - Sprongfield,MA,USA
SPRINGFIELD - The city, assisted by an outside collection agency, is threatening court action to pursue delinquent personal property taxes totaling ...
6/16/06
Consider bad debt options before tax time
News.com.au - Australia
... "If these bad debts are referred to a collection agency, the agency should be strictly on the 'no recovery - no charge' bases because ultimately, spending ...

6/15/06
City Owed more than $100,000 in parking fines
Portage Daily Graphic - Portage la Prairie,Manitobe,Canada
... The municipal officials said the province should hire a collection agency to secure the money owed to communities. The city would ...
6/14/06
Carlson on auction block: bidding set June 16
Willits News - Willits,CA,USA
The minimum bid has not yet been firmly established, but estimates from the collection agencySpecialized, Inc. suggest $569,000. ...

6/13/06
Norstar to create 140 jobs, double its space
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Norstar Location Services, an Amherst collection agency, plans to move to Cheektowaga as part of a $2.4 million project that will nearly double its space and ...

Debt Collection Agencies Under Scrutiny at Hearing
New York Times - United States
... David G. Peltan, director of compliance at Creditors Interchange, a collection agency in Buffalo, said that employees are trained about the legal ...

6/10/06
Consumers Warned About New Form Of Identity Theft
10news.com - San Diego,CA,USA
... know it. Pilot and business owner Joe Ryan thought it was a joke when he opened a letter from a collection agency. The letter stated ...

6/9/06
Hamilton County is billing city 'booking fee'
Fort Dodge Messenger - Fort Dodge,IA,USA
... prod repayment from prisoners, the county has been forced to look into alternative ways to seek compensation, including speaking to a debt collection agency. ...

6/7/06
M'ville schools want parents to pay up
Munster Times - Munster, IN, USA
... Fox asked for authority from the board to turn the information over to a collection agency. She asked for authority to immrdiately ...

6/5/06
Rolly: How the cookie, or credit, crumbled
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Madsen has filed a federal lawsuit against the collection agency, EPN inc., of Provo, its owner Jessica devenish and attorney Ronald J. Noyes, alleging ...

6/4/06
Heat's on county's back tax collector
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
...has acted as a collection agency for the county since 2001, despite never having registered as such with the Indiana Secretary of State. ...

Will County eyes fine collection
Joliet Herald News - Joliet,IL,USA
JOLIET - The Will County Board is considering hiring a Chicago collection agency to find "wrongdoers" who haven't paid fines. ...