Parties in FCRA Dispute vs. AT&T, Equifax, NCTUE Pick Fla. Mediator
The parties in plaintiff Linda Surrency’s complaint for Fair Credit Reporting Act violations against AT&T, Equifax and the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE) picked Terrence White, a founding partner of Upchurch Watson in Ormond Beach, Florida, to mediate…
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their dispute, said their joint mediation notice Friday (docket 8:23-cv-02323) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa. The mediation is to take place April 8 via videoconference, said the notice. Surrency’s Oct. 12 complaint alleges that AT&T, Equifax and the NCTUE were “plainly deficient” in their investigations of her credit reporting dispute over identity theft (see 2310160035). She alleges that AT&T failed to remove a fraudulent account from her NCTUE credit file and reports, in violation of the FCRA, despite being aware that identity thieves, not she, opened the fraudulent account.