LexisNexis FCRA Class Action Settlement Checks Mailed

Top Class Actions viewers are starting to receive checks in the mail from a class action settlement that accused LexisNexis of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

According to comments and posts on the Top Class Actions Facebook page, Class Members who submitted timely and valid claims for the LexisNexis FCRA class action settlement began receiving checks worth as much as $336.36 on Feb. 27, 2017.

If you filed a claim for the LexisNexis settlement, keep checking your mailbox because payouts are on their way!

The LexisNexis class action settlement resolves allegations that the company sold its “Accurint brand reports to debt collectors without treating the reports as ‘consumer reports’ within the meaning of the FCRA.”

LexisNexis claimed that its Accurint service provided to debt collectors did not fall under the scope of “consumer reports” and therefore didn’t need to comply with the FCRA. However, after extensive mediation with both parties, LexisNexis agreed to settle the dispute for $13.5 million.

Class Members included all individuals who “requested a copy of an Accurint® report about yourself and/or initiated or submitted a dispute or other inquiry about information in an Accurint® brand product about you at any time between October 1, 2006 to April 19, 2013.”

The deadline to object or ask to be excluded from the LexisNexis settlement passed on July 12, 2013.

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The Class is represented by Leonard Bennett of Consumer Litigation Associates, Dale Pittman, Michael Caddell of Caddell & Chapman, and James Francis of Francis & Mailman.

The LexisNexis Fair Credit Reporting Act Class Action Lawsuit is Gregory Thomas Berry, et al. v. LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group Inc., et al., Case No. 3:11-cv-00754-JRS, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division.