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Equifax Told To Pay Almost $3 Million In Identity Mix-Up

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The Associated Press

Published: December 4, 2007

ORLANDO - An Orlando jury has ordered Equifax to pay nearly $3 million in the case of a woman who says the company ruined her credit in an identity mix-up.

Angela P. Williams says she spent more than a decade trying to get the company to fix the error. The jury decided Friday that Atlanta-based Equifax Inc. must pay her $219,000 in actual damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages for negligent violation of federal credit-reporting laws.

Williams says Equifax repeatedly confused her with someone who had a similar name but had serious debt problems. She tried to correct the mistake, but Equifax kept passing along the wrong information, she said.

Equifax declined to comment.

An appeal is expected.

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