A New York debt collector has been fined $100,000 by Connecticut’s Banking Commissioner, Jorge L. Perez, after the company made repeat calls to a Connecticut hospital’s emergency number to collect debt from consumers.
Omnipoint Management Solutions LLC is a full-service debt recovery agency based in West Seneca, NY. The company does not have a Connecticut consumer collection license, which is a violation of Conn. Gen. Stat. § 36a‑801(a).
According to the order on the CT.Gov portal, Omnipoint representatives made calls to a hospital in Connecticut via their emergency medical phone line seeking a debtor, violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, “by engaging in conduct the natural consequence of which is to harass, oppress, or abuse a person in connection with the collection of a debt, including communicating with hospital staff through the hospital’s emergency medical phone line after the hospital staff explained that it was an emergency medical phone line and requested that Respondent not call such line.”…