Posts Tagged ‘Equifax’

What To Do If You Find An Error On Your Credit Card Statement


What To Do If You Find An Error On Your Credit Card Statement | New York Consumer Litigation

Settlement results in free credit monitoring service


Settlement results in free credit monitoring service | CNN

After a multimillion-dollar verdict, attorneys get fee award, too


To add (just) insult to (just) injury, a Florida judge awarded $518,301 to Angela Williams’s attorneys (PDF link). Ms. Williams recently won almost $3 million in a lawsuit against Equifax for Equifax’s refusal to fix her credit report after her identity was stolen.
While it may not be obvious when a consumer receives such a high [...]

A look inside the credit score cocktail


The Red Tape Chronicles recently attempted to explain what goes into the secret formula that determines a borrower’s credit score, the secret formula that determines what consumers pay for loans, credit cards, and even car insurance.
Credit scores are important to every consumer’s financial well-being. For example, a consumer with a FICO score of 619 will [...]