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Recent News About Portfolio Recovery Associates

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  Appeals court: Plaintiff snubbed settlement from debt collector, gets stuck with big legal bill

  By Dan Churney | Friday, May 17, 2019 @ 1:44pm

  A Chicago federal appeals court has refused to upend a lower court that ordered a collection agency pay only $11,000 of a plaintiff's $190,000 legal tab in a credit report lawsuit, saying the plaintiff doesn't deserve more, because he snubbed a reasonable settlement offer, then went to trial and won less than he would have collected in the proposed settlement.

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  Man alleges Portfolio Recovery Associates of trying to collect debt during bankruptcy

  By Louie Torres | Thursday, Apr 13, 2017 @ 2:17pm

  A man is suing Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, a debt collector, citing alleged misrepresentation in debt collection.

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