Steve in NY
Clifton Park,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, May 09, 2012
These clowns sent me a letter for a bill that was paid with Seton Health System and kept sending letters. Since I paid the urgent care directly I have no business with these clowns and will instead sue them under FDCPA if they every show up on my credit report as a collector of debt.
What you should do is write to the 3 credit reporting agencies challenging that you have never had an account with ORD&D and ask for it to be removed unless they can validate the debt. The credit reporting companies will as part of their investigation contact ORD&D and if they do indeed claim it is a valid debt when it is not you now have a legitimate cause of action against them.
Find a good consumer lawyer and they can sue for damages including entries detrimental to your credit score. It is illegal for a Debt Collector to indicate "Paid" on an account that they did not validate the debt nor collect on. If after you challenge the entry with the Credit Reporting agencies they still insist that it is valid and can't prove that it is you can sue them. Also if you are turned down credit or charged higher interest rates because of erroneous information that you challenge and is deemed to be invalid you can sue for financial damages. A good consumer lawyer can let you know all of your options. The only way to punish folks like this and Brian S. Strohl, Esq who defend their practices is to hit them in the wallet for more than they make off of collections. These Debt Collectors wouldn't use their tactics that violate the FDCPA if consumers were informed and sued them. Unfortunately they get away with it because people don't know their rights and don't make them pay.
Of course you can give me a call I am only about 30 minutes from Brian S. Strohl's office at ORD&D and can pay him a visit on your behalf. I don't think he will so quick to call anyone a disgruntled debtor in person. What I would call him is a sleazebag of the worst kind - An Attorney who is a Debt Collector. I don't think that God has made any worse scum than that. They make ambulance chasers look human.
Steve in NY
Clifton Park,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, May 09, 2012
These clowns sent me a letter for a bill that was paid with Seton Health System and kept sending letters. Since I paid the urgent care directly I have no business with these clowns and will instead sue them under FDCPA if they every show up on my credit report as a collector of debt.
What you should do is write to the 3 credit reporting agencies challenging that you have never had an account with ORD&D and ask for it to be removed unless they can validate the debt. The credit reporting companies will as part of their investigation contact ORD&D and if they do indeed claim it is a valid debt when it is not you now have a legitimate cause of action against them.
Find a good consumer lawyer and they can sue for damages including entries detrimental to your credit score. It is illegal for a Debt Collector to indicate "Paid" on an account that they did not validate the debt nor collect on. If after you challenge the entry with the Credit Reporting agencies they still insist that it is valid and can't prove that it is you can sue them. Also if you are turned down credit or charged higher interest rates because of erroneous information that you challenge and is deemed to be invalid you can sue for financial damages. A good consumer lawyer can let you know all of your options. The only way to punish folks like this and Brian S. Strohl, Esq who defend their practices.
Of course you can give me a call I am only about 30 minutes from Brian S. Strohl's office and can pay him a visit on your behalf. I don't think he will so quick to call anyone a disgruntled debtor in person. What I would call him is a sleazebag of the worst kind - An Attorney who is a Debt Collector I don't think that God has made any worse scum than that.
lawyersareliars
Watertown,#4Consumer Comment
Sun, December 12, 2010
In response to Overton, Doerr and Donovan's rebuttal.....
Remember Susan Bourk, from Ballston Lake? The elderly woman's credit whom you destroyed illegally? You should, it made the headlines. While in cahoots with Ellis Hospital, a bungling bunch of arbitrary billers, they illegally billed her, and you illegally damaged her credit.
Fully aware that this was a mistake on Ellis's part, even when the mess they created was cleared up, you refused to remove negative remarks from her credit, but instead put the equally damning statements as "Paid". As debt collection lawyers and agents, you know full well that is viewed negatively, and adversly affects consumer's credit and their credit score.
Research shows this to be standard proceedure with this collection agency.
They violate HIPPA laws, along with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Truely bottom feeders of the worst kind.
Brian S. Strohl, Esq, states "I am confident the consumer's story is not accurate and this is a mere attempt to slander our firm's reputation by a disgruntled debtor."
Typical sleezy lawyer speak sliding around the issue. In other words, he either hasn't checked, or wont check the facts, or is relieving himself of accountability by using the words "I am confident" versus "I can prove". I for one am "confident" the latter is the truth.
This "individual" came into the world greasy, and continues to be greasy.
And who, Mr. Strohl Squire, would want to call your office and discuss any matter of any kind as it is interpreted by you or your associates? Posting your ilk's phone number was yet another thinly veiled sham by a deceitful ambulance chaser.
Brian S. Strohl, Esq.
Clifton Park,#5REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, September 23, 2008
I am confident the consumer's story is not accurate and this is a mere attempt to slander our firm's reputation by a disgruntled debtor. Regardless, our telephone number is 518 383-4876 or 888 708-5088. A representative can assist with any questions to the account or a concern.