Woman wins $18.6 million over erroneous Equifax credit report
An Oregon woman who says her reputation was ruined by an erroneous credit record has won a major chunk of change from Equifax over the mix-up.
July 30, 2013 at 09:13 AM
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An Oregon woman who says her reputation was ruined by an erroneous credit record has won a major chunk of change from Equifax over the mix-up.
A jury awarded $18.6 million to Julie Miller, who says that the company refused to correct a low credit score, and violated her privacy by giving out her unredacted personal information.
Miller claims that she had the misfortune of sharing her name—but evidently not her good credit score—with another Oregon woman, who had several collection attempts on her record. Miller realized this after a bank denied her credit based on a report from the credit reporting agency Equifax.
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