Boo! Everything is down in the WebRecon Stats for Sept 2021
Quick analysis: Boo! Everything is down in the WebRecon Stats for Sept 2021 Just in time for Halloween, we are pleased to report that September’s litigation numbers were anything but frightful across the board. FDCPA was down -12% from Aug and -6.7% YTD. TCPA was down -6.7% from Aug and -49.4% YTD (but view that with […]
WebRecon Stats for August 2021: Summer Divergences
Quick analysis: Summer Divergences August was marked by a few interesting divergences among the data. First, FDCPA lawsuits were up (+7.5%) over the previous month while down (-6.4%) YTD from 2020. TCPA lawsuits were down (-7.7%) from the previous month and YTD (don’t use our YTD comparison, it is tainted by a crazy 2020 filing with […]
WebRecon Stats for July 2021: Summer Vacation? Plus, Record 45% of Plaintiffs Were Repeat Filers…
Quick analysis: Summer Vacations? July Lawsuits Down It looks like lots of consumers went to the beach instead of the courthouse last month. All three of the main statutes were down: FDCPA (-10.3%), TCPA (-27.8%) and FCRA (-13.3%), though FCRA maintains its status as the only major consumer statute growing year-over-year with a +6.5 growth rate […]
WebRecon Stats for June 2021: Everything was up in June
Quick analysis: Everything was up in June. CFPB complaints (+16.3%), FDCPA (+2%), FCRA (+18.9%), TCPA (+62.2%!). Of those complaint categories, CFPB complaints and FCRA litigation are also up significantly over June of 2020 (+41.9% and +35.6%, respectively) as well as YTD (+36.3% and +7.4%, respectively). FDCPA and TCPA, on the other hand, are both slightly down […]
WebRecon Stats for May 2021: Hunsteinmania Causes FDCPA Case Increase for May 2021, TCPA, FCRA, CFPB Complaints Down
Quick analysis: FDCPA cases (+4.1%) are the only consumer complaint category up in May. Take a wild guess as to why that might be. Spoiler alert… it starts with “Hun” and ends with “Stein”. As of today, there are at least 225 filings since late April that could be considered copycat Hunstein cases. TCPA cases […]
WebRecon Stats for April 2021: FDCPA Up, TCPA/FCRA Down, CFPB Way Up YTD
Quick analysis: FDCPA Up, TCPA/FCRA Down, CFPB Way Up YTD In an unusual reversal of fortunes, FDCPA (+4.7%) numbers are up in April 2021 while TCPA (-30.7%) and FCRA (-13.4%) numbers are down. YTD is a bit of a different story with FDCPA (-15.7%) and TCPA (-57.2%) down, and FCRA (+3.4%) up. Note: That YTD TCPA […]
WebRecon Stats for March 2021: Up Across The Board…
Quick analysis: Here’s a novel twist on recent history… FDCPA (+18.7%), TCPA (+24.4%) and FCRA(+25%) numbers, as well as CFPB complaints (+28.5%) against debt collectors, were all up – by double digit percentages – in March. Even so, FDCPA (-19.7%) and TCPA (-43.8%) were both down year-to-date from 2020. FCRA (+5.7%) and CFPB complaints (+42.9%) are […]
WebRecon Stats for Feb 2021: Everything is down, except…
Quick analysis: Everything is down. FDCPA down. TCPA down. FCRA down. It’s all down month over month. It’s all down YTD. It’s all down year over year. It’s all down. Except for CFPB complaints. Those are up +4.4% for the month and a whopping +35.5% YTD. In other news, putative class actions represented 15.1% of FDCPA, […]
WebRecon Stats for Jan 2021: Lawsuit complaints 🔻 down from 2020, ↕️ mixed from previous month…
Quick analysis: 2021 Starts Down Compared To 2020 It’s something, right? All three of the major statutes are down in January from where they were a year ago at this time: FDCPA (-24.3%), FCRA (-4.4%) and TCPA (-55.6%). Of course, FCRA and TCPA are both up over December 2020 (+3.1% and +23.2% respectively) and FDCPA is […]
WebRecon Stats for Dec 2020 and Year in Review
Quick analysis: Well, 2020 ended pretty much as it ran throughout the year. FDCPA suits were down fairly dramatically from 2019 at -17.6%, TCPA was down more nominally at -3.3%, but it was actually more dramatic than that due to some early-year suits that distorted the numbers, and FCRA ended up +5.3% – the only consumer […]