Sentence examples for collections cases from inspiring English sources

The stakes in collections cases are smaller, and of course, debt buyers were never given a taxpayer bailout.

Statewide, the category of lawsuit under which these collections cases fall has increased by 20 percent in the past five years.

He specializes in collections cases and major audits and charges a hefty $270 an hour to fix these messes.

Creditors and debt buyers are swamping the California court system with debt-collection cases".

The commission, which has limited authority to write debt collection rules, urged states to take action because most collection cases are filed in state courts.

But lawyers who defend consumers in debt-collection cases say the banks did not invent the headless, assembly-line approach to financial paperwork.

The number of collection cases has "risen considerably in the past year or so," said Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda Superior Court, who has assisted with the training sessions for lawyers.

An estimated 96,000 consumer debt-collection cases were filed in 2009 in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco Counties alone, up from about 53,665 in 2007.

The bureau has filed three debt collection cases so far in 2013, after bringing six in 2012, five in 2011 and one in 2010.

"Particularly vexing to the Oversight Board is the number of potential examination and collection cases the I.R.S. has identified but cannot pursue due to lack of resources," one board member, Karen Hastie Williams, told a House Ways and Means subcommittee.

Each day in Civil Court in Brooklyn, Judge Noach Dear presides over as many as 100 credit card collection cases, a scene repeated day in and day out in courtrooms across the country.