Due to fairly recent changes in serving regulations and licensing requirements implemented by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (NYC DCA), a great number of NYC process server agencies are having a hard time adapting to the strict system. This has led to them paying considerably higher fines, and it has even gotten to a point where a 40% decrease in NYC process servers has been reported.
This change in rules is the result of an investigation by Consumer Affairs, wherein widespread process serving violations were committed and consequently let New Yorkers down. Chris Bragg of Crain’s also mentions that the reforms were due to “the number of cases in which people subject to legal action were not properly served, never showed up in court, and were hit with judgments.” This has led a number of firms, both capable and otherwise, to close and legal processes to be delayed.
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