With Settlement in Hand, Judge Dismisses FCRA Claims vs. Experian, NCTUE

Plaintiff Linda Surrency and defendants Experian and the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE) have reached a settlement of Surrency’s Fair Credit Reporting Act claims, so her lawsuit is dismissed against those defendants only, said a text-only endorsed order issued Tuesday (docket 8:23-cv-02323) by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for Middle Florida in Tampa. The dismissal is subject to the right of any party within 60 days to submit a stipulated form of final order or move to vacate the dismissal for good cause, said the order. Surrency’s complaint alleged that AT&T, Equifax and the NCTUE were “plainly deficient” in their investigations of Surrency’s credit reporting dispute over identity theft (see 2310160035).