J.G. Wentworth class action overview:
- Who: Plaintiff R.R. filed a class action lawsuit against The J.G. Wentworth Co.
- Why: R.R. claims J.G. Wentworth shared sensitive financial information about its consumers with third parties without their knowledge or consent.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
A new class action lawsuit accuses J.G. Wentworth of sharing sensitive financial information about its consumers with third parties without their knowledge or consent.
Plaintiff R.R. claims J.G. Wentworth embedded web trackers on its website that transmitted the contents of consumers’ loan applications to third parties without their knowledge or consent.
“These trackers perform various functions, often with the ultimate purpose of analyzing consumer information, and then monetizing those analyses by further disclosing the information to advertisers,” the J.G. Wentworth class action lawsuit says.
R.R. seeks to represent a nationwide class and a California class of consumers who submitted contact information through J.G. Wentworth’s website in connection with an application for a financial product or service offered by the company within the past two years.
J.G. Wentworth failed to inform consumers of trackers, class action alleges
R.R. claims J.G. Wentworth failed to inform consumers about the trackers, which allegedly disclosed sensitive information contained in the consumers’ loan applications, such as their names, email addresses, phone numbers, loan amount, income, homeownership status, credit worthiness and, in the case of a home equity line of credit, the home’s value and equity.
The plaintiff argues J.G. Wentworth failed to obtain the sufficient consent required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and related state statutes to disclose consumers’ sensitive financial information to third parties.
“Despite legal and ethical duties to protect consumers’ financial information, [J.G. Wentworth] undermined the importance of safeguarding consumers’ financial information, breaching consumers’ trust,” the J.G. Wentworth class action lawsuit says.
R.R. claims J.G. Wentworth is guilty of violating the Electronic Communication Privacy Act and California Information Privacy Act and of intrusion upon seclusion, breach of confidence and negligence.
The plaintiff demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief and an award of statutory damages, disgorgement of profits, costs and attorneys’ fees.
Similarly, Hilton, LinkedIn, PNC Bank and Wells Fargo are facing class action lawsuits alleging they secretly tracked users’ online activity using pixel trackers and other hidden technologies.
Have you ever submitted contact information through J.G. Wentworth’s website? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Yaman Salahi, Nicole Cabañez and Taylor Applegate of Salahi P.C. and Albert Plawinski of Plawinski PLLC.
The J.G. Wentworth class action lawsuit is R.R. v. The J.G. Wentworth Co., Case No. 3:26-cv-03082, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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