{"id":61,"date":"2019-05-08T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/?p=61"},"modified":"2019-07-30T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:24:11","slug":"deadline-draws-near-for-compliance-with-u-s-department-of-educations-2016-borrower-defense-to-repayment-bdr-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2019\/05\/08\/deadline-draws-near-for-compliance-with-u-s-department-of-educations-2016-borrower-defense-to-repayment-bdr-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Draws Near for Compliance with U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s 2016 Borrower Defense to Repayment (BDR) Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for complying with certain provisions of the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s borrower defense regulations is Tuesday, May 14. These requirements are summarized briefly below and in greater detail in our March 21, 2019,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Implementing the 2016 Borrower Defense to Repayment (BDR) Rule - Arbitration Agreements and Class Action Waivers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/implementing_bdr_rule_arbitration_agreements_class_action_waivers_0319.html\">Alert<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and April 9, 2019,\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Trouble with Triggers: Newly Effective Postsecondary Institution Reporting Obligations Under the Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/trouble_triggers_newly_effective_postsecondary_institution_reporting_obligations_bdr_0419.html\">Alert<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Arbitration Agreements and Class Action Waivers<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Starting Tuesday, May 14<\/b>, schools must either stop using binding predispute arbitration agreements and class action waivers or include the language from the regulation removing borrower defense claims from the scope of these agreements. In addition, starting May 14, students who previously signed a binding predispute arbitration agreement must be provided with specified notice language no later than upon exit counseling or the filing of the school\u2019s initial response to a demand for arbitration or service of a complaint involving a borrower defense claim.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this\u00a0<em>Alert,\u00a0<\/em>please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/deadline_draws_near_compliance_us_department_education_2016_bdr_rule_0519.html\">Duane Morris website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for complying with certain provisions of the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s borrower defense regulations is Tuesday, May 14. These requirements are summarized briefly below and in greater detail in our March 21, 2019,\u00a0Alert\u00a0and April 9, 2019,\u00a0Alert. Arbitration Agreements and Class Action Waivers Starting Tuesday, May 14, schools must either stop using binding predispute &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2019\/05\/08\/deadline-draws-near-for-compliance-with-u-s-department-of-educations-2016-borrower-defense-to-repayment-bdr-rule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deadline Draws Near for Compliance with U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s 2016 Borrower Defense to Repayment (BDR) Rule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,13,17,18],"ppma_author":[179],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-borrower-defense-to-repayment","tag-department-of-education","tag-duane-morris-alerts","tag-education"],"authors":[{"term_id":179,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}