Verizon Reaches Stipulation With Debt Collector to Dismiss All Claims

Verizon’s dispute with its debt collector, CBE Customer Solutions, is dismissed in its entirety with prejudice, “including as to all claims, counterclaims, and parties,” said their joint stipulation Monday (docket 1:22-cv-08703) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York. The parties will bear their own costs and attorneys’ fees, said the stipulation. Verizon sued CBE Sept. 9 to recover $6.1 million in damages and court costs spent negotiating, finalizing and executing a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class settlement that Verizon alleged CBE’s negligence caused (see 2210140026). CBE countersued Nov. 18, alleging any negligence that mushroomed into a TCPA class action and settlement was of Verizon’s doing, not CBE’s (see 2211210034).