Bankruptcy Blogs

Action Against Medical Debt Collector

06/18/15

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "CFPB") announced today that it has taken action against a medical debt collection company in regard to the manner it handled consumer credit reporting disputes and consumer debt collection rights.

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Personal Bankruptcy in Florida

06/18/15

What types of bankruptcy are available?

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The Means Test: "Household" Size and Contributions

06/18/15

Miami Personal Bankruptcy Lawyer Jordan E. Bublick has over 25 years of experience in filing Chapter 13 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases. His office is centrally located in Miami at 1221 Brickell Avenue, 9th Fl., Miami and may be reached at (305) 891-4055.  www.bublicklaw.com

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Texas Sues Over RadioShack Gift Cards

06/18/15
Sale signs greeted customers walking to the now-closed RadioShack at Valley View Plaza in Marion,
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Union Workers Hold Anti-Icahn March on Atlantic City Boardwalk

06/18/15
Members of Unite Here Local 54, which represents the Trump Taj Mahal and other Atlantic City, N.J., cooks, bartenders, waitresses and bellmen, protest benefit cuts along with members of other unions in front of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic
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Mobile Payments Remain Endgame

06/18/15

It's hard to get consumers and merchants to change their behaviors. But eventually the convenience and well-crafted incentives of mobile payments will prompt people to give up the plastic habit.

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Mobile Payments Remain the Endgame

06/18/15

It's hard to get consumers and merchants to change their behaviors. But eventually the convenience and well-crafted incentives of mobile payments will prompt people to give up the plastic habit.

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How Do You Market to Millennials? Answer: You Don't

06/18/15

Millennials are individuals first and millennials second. Demographers and sociologists may like to group consumers, but when bankers market to the average instead of the individual, it's a losing strategy.

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Baker Botts v. Asarco: The Supreme Court Shows Again That It Really Doesn’t Understand Corporate Bankruptcy Cases

06/18/15

The Supreme Court has not handled its recent major bankruptcy decisions well. The jurisdictional confusion engendered by its 2011 decision in Stern v. Marshall was only partially clarified by this term’s opinion in Wellness International Network v. Sharif.

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Bankrupt No More, Sonja Morgan Gets to Keep NYC Home

06/18/15
Sonja Morgan of “The Real Housewives of New York” attends the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment 2015 Upfront in New York in May.
Evan Agostini/Associated Press
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