MONTROSE, Calif., May 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hannah
Weinstein battled false information on her credit report for months
before finally filing — with help from the Law Offices of
Robert F. Brennan — a lawsuit
against Experian and Fidelity Creditor Services as a last
resort. Little did she know that Experian had taken her
dispute letters and documents—which included all of her private
personal identifying information--and shipped them off to a foreign
corporation in Santiago, Chile for
processing. There, an Experian dispute operator, for whom
English is a second language and who received no training in
interpreting American legal documents, processed Ms. Weinstein's
dispute among 90 other disputes she processes every day, averaging
a dispute every five minutes. The deposition of the Experian
dispute operator in Chile can be
found using this link: Experian dispute deposition videos.
Ms. Weinstein has alleged that Experian and Fidelity violated
two separate provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act which
require consumer reporting agencies and data furnishers to "follow
reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy" and to
conduct "a reasonable reinvestigation" of disputed credit items.
Weinstein maintains that her dispute was not given a
reasonable investigation by Experian and Fidelity, and that the
procedures Experian and Fidelity followed were shoddy and heavily
biased in favor of the debt collector, Fidelity, instead of Ms.
Weinstein.
Experian and Fidelity both recently filed motions to have the
case tossed out of court. The distinguished attorney,
Robert F. Brennan, of the Law
Offices of Robert F. Brennan APC in Montrose, Ca., represented Weinstein before
the honorable Dale S. Fischer on
May 6, opposing these motions.
Judge Fischer ruled in favor of Weinstein, and the case will
proceed to trial in August of 2019.
By way of background, Hannah
Weinstein was first notified by Fidelity that she owed
$9,320.74 in March 2017. This amount allegedly accrued during
a rent strike against her landlord, but in subsequent proceedings
the landlord agreed that Ms. Weinstein owed no money, and the Los
Angeles Superior Court entered an order that Ms. Weinstein's debt
was waived. Despite Weinstein requesting Fidelity to drop the
alleged debt, Fidelity refused to acknowledge that the debt had
been waived and credit-reported the debt to Experian. This
destroyed Ms. Weinstein's otherwise blemish-free credit
reputation. After multiple dispute letters to both Fidelity
and Experian did not result in removing the negative credit entry,
Weinstein finally sought legal action as a last resort.
Considering this case's most recent development, Brennan has a
positive outlook for the trial of this case, and believes that this
case will shed light upon Experian's shoddy practice of entrusting
U.S. consumers' information into the hands of foreign corporations
whose low-level workers daily handle the sensitive personal
information of American consumers.
Case No. 2:17-cv-08704 DSF (JEMx)
Contact
Robert F. Brennan, Esq.
(818) 249-5291
http://www.brennanlaw.com/
rbrennan@brennanlaw.com
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