Portland, Oregon.
Julie Miller of Marion County, Oregon was awarded $18.4 million in punitive damages and $180,000 in compensatory damages, by a federal jury though Friday's award against one of the nation's major credit bureaus. Julie Miller spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report.
The jury was told woman has contacted Equifax eight times between 2009 and 2011 to correct the errors in her credit report which includes the inaccurate accounts, incorrect social security number and date of birth. Miller discovered the problem in her credit files when was declined credit by a bank in December 2009. When she contacted the credit bureaus, other credit bureaus are said to have corrected their errors but Equifax didn't. Despite Miller contacting Equifax several times, the errors were not corrected
The Associated Press quoted Justin Baxter, an attorney from portland who worked on this case as him saying: "There was damage to her reputation, a breach of her privacy and the lost opportunity to seek credit. She has a brother who is disabled and who can't get credit on his own, and she wasn't able to help him." ABC News Quoted Justin Baxter as: "She did what you're supposed to do. She didn't go running straight to the courthouse. ... We found that when complaints would come in, they'd run them through a scanner and then send them overseas."
Equifax declined to comment on this lawsuit when contacted by ABC News and The Associated Press.
Sources:
- "Oregon woman: $18.6M, credit bureau: 0" — The Associated Press, July 28, 2013
- Alan farnham. "Jury Awards $18.6M For Equifax Credit Report Mix-up" — ABC News Internet Ventures. Yahoo! - ABC News Network, 2013/07/29
all rights reversed. This article is especially written for Wikinews: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/A_Woman_wins_18.6_Million_USD_lawsuit_against_Equifax
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