MACA announces results of 2025 Board Election and Officer Election

On Monday, September 8, 2025, the General Membership elected the following individuals to serve a one-year term on the Board of Directors:

Harry Albert, Jr.

Modern Recovery Solutions

Patricia A. Cobb, Chief Operations Officer

Ability Recovery Services, LLC

Billy Comer, Director
HealthCare Financial Services

Steven Kusic

National Recovery Agency

Monica M. Littman, Partner

Kaufman Dolowich LLP

Charles W. Riter, Jr.

Emergent Business Group

Tammy Robertson, President
Eastern Revenue Inc.

Jim Simmermon

Collection Service Center, Inc.

Harry A. Strausser III, President

Applied Innovation, Inc.

Following adjournment of the Annual Meeting, the newly elected Board convened to elect a Vice President. Tammy Robertson (Eastern Revenue) was elected as Vice President through the 2026 Annual Membership Meeting.

California Expands Scope of Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Act to Certain Commercial Debts

Posted November 15, 2024: According to a a post on Kaufman Dolowich LLP's web site dated November 6, 2024, on September 24, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1286 into law, broadening the scope of California’s Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Act (“Rosenthal Act”) to include certain commercial transactions.

Today, the Rosenthal Act prohibits debt collectors from engaging in unfair or deceptive debt collection acts or practices when collecting consumer debt. On July 1, 2025, the effective date of Senate Bill 1286, the purview of the Rosenthal Act will expand to most commercial debt where the total amount owed by the debtor to the lender is $500,000 or less. Senate Bill 1286 states that the provisions of the Rosenthal Act will apply to covered commercial debt entered into, renewed, sold or assigned on or after July 1, 2025.