Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices: 2.2.2.1.3 Statutes that apply to “suppliers”
The Ohio UDAP statute applies to “suppliers,” a defined term.588 The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a debt buyer and the law firm it hired to collect a debt meet this definition, because their efforts to obtain payment from the debtor amounted to solicitation of a consumer transaction.589 The court distinguished a 2013 decision590 that had held the UDAP statute inapplicable to mortgage servicers.