{"id":780,"date":"2013-04-04T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2017-01-03T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:20:39","slug":"west-virginia-collection-agency-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/west-virginia-collection-agency-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Collection Agency Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to West Virginia law, no person, firm, corporation or association may conduct within this State a collection agency without having first provided a <strong><a title=\"Surety One\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\" target=\"_blank\">West Virginia collection agency bond<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and obtained a business franchise registration certificate. \u00a0&#8220;Collection Agency&#8221; is defined as all persons, firms, corporations and associations; (1) engaged in the business of soliciting from or collecting for others any account, bill or indebtedness originally due or asserted to be owed or due another, or engaged in asserting, enforcing or prosecuting those claims; (2) which, in attempting to collect or in collecting his or her own accounts or claims uses a fictitious name or names other than his or her own name; (3) which attempts to or does give away or sell to others any system or series of letters or forms for use in the collection of accounts or claims which assert or indicate that the claims or accounts are being asserted or collected by any person, firm, corporation or association other than the creditor or owner of the claim or account; or (4) directly or indirectly engaged in the business of soliciting, or who holds himself or herself out as engaged in the business of soliciting, debts of any kind owed or due for fee. The <strong>West Virginia collection agency bond\u00a0<\/strong>must be written in the amount of $5,000, currently. \u00a0A separate West Virginia surety bond must be deposited with the State for each branch office of the same collection agency. \u00a0The bond must guarantee that the agency will pay all damages to the State or a private person resulting from any unlawful act or action by such person or his or its agent in connection with the conduct of the business of the collection agency. The <strong>West Virginia collection agency bond<\/strong> must be filed with the <a title=\"WV Tax Commiss.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wva.state.wv.us\/wvtax\/meetTheCommissioner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Commissioner<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0<strong>national surety leader<\/strong>,\u00a0<a title=\"Surety One\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surety One, Inc.<\/a>, is a specialist in the bonding needs of the financial services industry. \u00a0We will issue\u00a0<strong><em>collection agency bonds\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>for ALL applicants in every state where this type of bond is required regardless of the applicant&#8217;s credit condition. We also offer broad\u00a0<a title=\"Surety One fidelity bond page\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/fidelity-bonds\" target=\"_blank\">fidelity bond<\/a>\u00a0coverages to protect against losses due to employee dishonesty. \u00a0Visit\u00a0<a title=\"Surety One\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SuretyOne.com<\/a>\u00a0for a\u00a0<strong>West Virginia surety <\/strong>expert,\u00a0call\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(787) 333-0222<\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(800) 373-2804<\/span>, or email\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Underwriting@SuretyOne.com<\/span>\u00a0for an <strong>West Virginia\u00a0collection agency bond<\/strong>\u00a0application or information about any surety or fidelity bond product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to West Virginia law, no person, firm, corporation or association may conduct within this State a collection agency without having first provided a West Virginia collection agency bond\u00a0and obtained a business franchise registration certificate. \u00a0&#8220;Collection Agency&#8221; is defined as&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/west-virginia-collection-agency-bond\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[943,946,945,944],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>West Virginia Collection Agency Bond &bull; Surety One, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/west-virginia-collection-agency-bond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"West Virginia Collection Agency Bond &bull; Surety One, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pursuant to West Virginia law, no person, firm, corporation or association may conduct within this State a collection agency without having first provided a West Virginia collection agency bond\u00a0and obtained a business franchise registration certificate. \u00a0&#8220;Collection Agency&#8221; is defined as... 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