The ability of mortgage servicers to call struggling borrowers and help them resolve their problems is being compromised by an order from the Federal Communications Commission and needs to be overturned, a trio of industry groups argued in a recently submitted legal brief. The FCC’s order, released June 18, 2015, aims to bolster consumer protections against unwanted telephone calls and texts by, in part, restricting the ability of mortgage servicers, debt collectors and others to make autodialed or prerecorded phone calls without prior express consent of the person called. Violators can be subject to fines of $500 per phone call. A challenge to the FCC’s order is being led by ACA International before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...