IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!
What that means is they are too lazy to deal with it and sent it to someone else to collect for them.
Unfortunatley Midland will still report, and now possibly the other will too.
Legal? You got me, it is their world and they expect us to live in it.
If I am not mistaken Midland has to show a 0 blance but still a collection and a comment somewhere along the lines of transfered to another DEPARTMENT. BUT that is only if the other pops up on your CR.
Now I do know this, if you dispute Midland and by chance they sell it to the other one they have to tell the other CA that the account they just aquired is in dispute and the new CA has to validate, often times with it is handed down to someone else they get limited info and have to send you a letter stating that they must inquire for all info from Midland before answering your DV, If Midland has washed their hands of it they don't have to send the new CA a thing, hince no validate no report.