Encore Capital Group Inc., the country’s largest debt collection firm, is facing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lawsuit for allegedly engaging in illegal collections practices that the bureau had tried to stop.
Encore and its subsidiaries violated a 2015 CFPB consent order by filing debt collection lawsuits without the appropriate documentation that a consumer owed a debt, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The companies also failed to provide proper disclosures in more than 750,000 cases, it said.
In the 2015 order, the CFPB forced Encore to pay $42 ...
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