As many as 40,000 people whose private credit information was unlawfully disclosed to debt collectors after their cars were towed will be able to claim a portion of an $8 million settlement preliminarily reached in a class action against credit report compiler Experian.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved the settlement on April 29 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In the suit, Holman v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that Experian had sold credit reports to a debt collection company that used them to recover towing and storage charges from the vehicles’ owners in California.
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