Written By Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) The accuracy of job applicant criminal records used by employers and consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) to conduct background checks will become a new area of litigation filed over alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that regulates background screening, according to the “ESR Top Ten Background Check…
Written By Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) The Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) will continue to strengthen the professionalism of background screeners in the United States with a strict and thorough set of professional standards of specified requirements and measurements for accreditation, according to the “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” for 2021 compiled by leading…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 22, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a consent order that imposed a $4,750,000 civil money penalty against “a leading originator and servicer of nonprime auto loans and leases” that furnished credit information on the auto loans it serviced to Consumer Reporting Agencies…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 4, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) that provided consumer reports about job applicants complied with the “maximum possible accuracy” standard required by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that regulates background checks…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In a letter dated November 9, 2020, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathleen Kraninger told the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) the CFPB would maintain guidance issued in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that eased dispute deadlines under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). “I…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), has written an article available on LinkedIn Pulse chronicling the 40-year career in the screening industry of Attorney Larry Henry, a noted expert on the Fair Credit Reporting Act…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 24, 2020, a letter sent by a coalition of 21 consumer, faith, and advocacy groups to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) urged the CFPB to revoke the permission they granted the credit reporting industry to violate the 30-day deadline imposed by the Fair Credit…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A woman living in Lincoln City, Oregon, “was surprised to discover she had been dead since 2019” after being notified about the news of her death in a letter addressed to her estate from her bank – which is among the largest banks in the United States…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 9, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held in the case of Domante v. Dish Networks, LLC that obtaining a consumer report to verify the identity and eligibility for a service of a consumer is a “legitimate business need” and a…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 10, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a September 2019 Connecticut district court decision that dismissed a lawsuit claiming violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) because a consumer had not notified a Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) of…
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