Scott
Scott v. Credit Consulting Services CA6
Opinion
Opinion
Lie, J.
I. BACKGROUND?
In or around February 2016, Scott received medical treatment from Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital. Asa result, Scott incurred unpaid medical debts. Hazel Hawkins referred those debts to CCS for collection.
CCS sent Scott eight letters between July 27, 2016 and September 11, 2018. By 2017 at the latest, Scott was aware Hazel Hawkins had assigned the debt toa debt collector and had received at least one collections letter. Scott did not pay the debt.
On October 30, 2018, CCS initiated the present action by filing a collection complaint against Scott seeking recovery of the debt. The court issued a summons the same day. CCS stapled “a small yellow note... to the summons at a 90[-]degree angle” (the attachment). The attachment read: “If you have any questions regarding this matter,
please contact: Credit Consulting Services, Inc., 201 John Street, Suite E, Salinas, CA
* We base our factual summary on the parties’ separate statements of undisputed material facts, evidence admitted in conjunction with CCS’s motion for summary judgment, and admissions in the parties’ briefs. (See Thompson v. Ioane (2017) 11 Cal.App.5th 1180, 1186, fn. 4.)
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