Woman sues debt collection company
A Connellsville woman filed suit against a Bloomsburg collection agency, alleging she has been harassed over a debt that is not hers.
In the federal suit filed Friday, Mary Jane Nicklow alleged that Remit Corp. has been calling her “for several years” about a debt that her late husband owed. Attorney Brent F. Vullings alleged in the suit that Nicklow neither took out the loan or used the account.
The suit indicated that Nicklow agreed to make $50 monthly payments on the account, but Remit got a judgment against her and continues to call her “on a daily basis demanding more money each month.”
“(Nicklow) is frightened by the continuous calls and harassment from the defendant,” Vullings wrote. “Defendant clearly uses this fear to their advantage as their agents continue to threaten the elderly plaintiff with loss of her home if she so much as misses one payment.”
“Plaintiff has been told on more than one occasion that the county sheriff will be at her home to sell it out from under her if she does not pay off this debt,” Vullings wrote.
He also alleged that Remit has continued to deduct $50 monthly “for several years” but never deducted that money from the balance of the account.
The alleged harassment has caused Nicklow “humiliation, anger, anxiety, emotional distress, fear, frustration and embarrassment,” Vullings wrote.