7th Circuit: Mortgage Field Serving Company Is Not Debt Collector Under FDCPA

Mealey's (August 13, 2018, 1:12 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A company that provides certain services to a mortgage provider is not a debt collector or indirect debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 10, upholding a trial court’s summary judgment ruling for the company, a defendant in a class complaint (Andrew Schlaf, et al. v. Safeguard Property, LLC, No. 17-2811, 7th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22281)....