Portfolio Recovery Associates is a high volume debt collector located at 120 Corporate Boulevard, Norfolk, Virginia 23502.

• Consumers all over the country have sued Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC for unfair and abusive debt collection tactics.
• Ironically, Portfolio Recovery Associate’s website features this tagline: “We’re giving debt collection a good name.”
• The consumer debtor in Dunham v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, 2009 WL 3784236 (E.D. Ark. 2009), accused Portfolio Recovery Associates of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The consumer claimed that he notified Portfolio Recovery Associates in writing within thirty days that he was disputing the alleged debt. However, in violation of the FDCPA, Portfolio Recovery Associates then mailed the consumer a letter that failed to include the original amount allegedly owed and the date on which the debt accrued. The debt collector further failed to provide proof that it had verified the debt with the original creditor. Based on these facts, the Court denied Portfolio Recovery Associate’s motion to dismiss the consumer’s Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) lawsuit.
• Schlanger & Schlanger recently recently settled as against Portfolio Recovery Associates in Diaz v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, et al., a federal Fair Debt Collection Prectices Act (FDCPA) lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York that is still pending as against the other defendant, Malen & Associates, P.C.   Diaz v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, et al., 10-cv-07243 (S.D.N.Y. 2010).
• Similarly, in a recent Illinois federal case, Portfolio Recovery Associates initiated a collection suit against a debtor with “knowledge that it lacked any documentation” that the debt was actually owed, a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).  See Basile v. Blatt, Hasenmiller, Leibsker & Moore LLC, 632 F.Supp.2d 842 (N.D. Ill. 2009).  The Illinois Court denied Portfolio Recovery Associate’s motion to grant summary judgment in its favor.

Debtor’s have rights.  Don’t be a victim of Portfolio Recovery Associate’s aggressive, false and unfair collection tactics.  Contact the consumer lawyers at Schlanger & Schlanger, LLP at 1-800-685-2580 or by filling out our consumer questionnaire.