McMickle, Kurey & Branch, LLP partners Scott McMickle and Luke Kennedy recently obtained a complete defense verdict in an admitted liability dump truck accident case while representing a local gravel hauling trucking company in Walton County Superior Court.
McMickle, Kurey & Branch, LLP partners Scott McMickle and Matt Sessions obtained a de facto defense verdict in an admitted liability truck wreck case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia before Judge Charles Pannell. Defendants uncovered significant evidence of bias, intent, and motive of Plaintiff’s post-accident medical provider, Spine Center Atlanta (“SCA”)
With foreclosure moratoria behind us, inflation and interest rates on the rise, and the Country seemingly headed toward another recession, post-COVID debt collection activity is ramping up. Accordingly, lenders and creditors must remain vigilant to avoid inadvertent missteps that may compromise their ability to collect on their debts. This includes not only from principal debtors, but from guarantors and other sureties of those debts, as well.
In Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP, 139 S. Ct. 1029, 203 L. Ed. 2d 390 (2019) the United States Supreme Court held that a business, including a law firm, engaged in the enforcement of a security interest through nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings was not a “debt collector” for nearly all purposes under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) (15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.)
