Federal Court in Texas Finds No Confusion Over Letter with Same Account Number for Two Separate Medical Debts
Partners David Anthony and Ethan Ostroff and attorney Punit Marwaha were published in insideARM for an article titled, “Federal Court in Texas Finds No Confusion Over Letter with Same Account Number for Two Separate Medical Debts.” The article covers a recent judgement in favor of a debt collector, holding that letters sent with the same client account number for two different debts incurred with the same underlying creditor were not false, deceptive, or misleading or otherwise in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. They concluded that, “the Court held that Medicredit’s inclusion of a self-generated account number, even viewed from an unsophisticated consumer’s perspective, is not unfair or unconscionable, just as it is not false, deceptive, or misleading.”