The Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act (CSPA) provides consumers with remedies against suppliers who engage in deceptive or unconscionable acts or practices. The CSPA allows consumers to recover economic and non-economic damages as well as treble damages, attorney’s fees and court costs in some situations. The prospect of large payouts […]
Several of the actions prohibited by the Fair Dept Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) use vague language that is not defined by the Act. Recently, debtors have attempted to use the language as an enforcement mechanism for procedural violations of unrelated statutes to collect statutory damages and attorney’s fees otherwise not […]
In response to the increasing influence of health insurance corporations and medical providers, the Ohio legislature attempted to set forth circumstances under which a hospital or other provider could collect on medical debt, and from whom. On July 8, 2013, in Annette Hayberg v. Robinson Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Ohio […]
Slovin & Associates attorney, Brad Council attended the annual Consumer Law conference sponsored by the Ohio State Bar Association on July 31, 2013. The conference included presentations by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Ohio Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Section, as well as distinguished […]
