The ABC News reported on July 29, 2013, that an Oregon woman named Julie Miller wins $18.6 million as a compensation for mistakes in her Equifax credit reports.
Miller found that her credit report contained false information that showed her incapable of getting credit from several banks.
Miller told that in a span of two years, she contacted the company around eight times to get the mistakes fixed.
The report showed her false Social Security number, birth date and collection accounts. She recalls that Equifax told her that her account had accidentally got combined with someone else’s account.
She tried hard to solve her problem. In 2011, finally she decided make Equifax answer in the court.
On Friday, the jury ordered Equifax to pay $18.6 million to Miller as a compensation of all her troubles. Miller’s victory is one of the largest fiscal wins of consumer complaints against credit companies.
Miller's lawyer, Justin Baxter, mentioned in an interview with the ABC News that the jury felt sympathetic to several ways that bad credit had affected her life. At a point of time Miller couldn’t get credit for her disabled brother.
Quoting Baxter, the ABC News mentioned, "There was damage to her reputation, a breach of her privacy and the lost opportunity to seek credit."
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