Woman sues Equifax, wins court case when bureau won't fix credit errors

A woman sues Equifax, and possibly opens the door for many more people who feels the credit reporting bureaus have ruined their credit. According to CNN on July 29, the woman won $18.6 million from Equifax, the highest amount awarded against a credit bureau.

Julie Miller, from Oregon, claims that she contacted Equifax eight times between 2009 and 2011 about mistakes on her credit report. Despite her attempting to fix the mistakes, Equifax refused to do anything about it and she continued to get denials in her requests for credit.

The errors included erroneous accounts and collection attempts, and also included using the wrong social security number and birthday on her credit report.

Finally, she tired of it and took the company to court.

Miller said her reputation was damaged and she was unable to help her disabled brother with credit when he came to her for help. When she contacted Equifax, she did everything they asked of her, but nothing was done to fix the damage to her credit report. She said that the other bureaus fixed the problems, but Equifax never would.

The jury in the woman sues Equifax case found in favor of Miller and awarded her $18.4 million in punitive damages as well as $180,000 in compensatory damages. Equifax plans to appeal the decision.

source: http://www.examiner.com/article/woman-sues-equifax-wins-court-case-when-bureau-won-t-fix-credit-errors