UPDATE: Claim Deadline for Filing with Our Law Firm has Passed!

Watts Guerra Craft LLP and its team of TransUnion Class Action Settlement Lawyers and staff are now in the final stages of preparing to file a historic collection of lawsuits against credit reporting giant TransUnion.  As part of a 2008 class action settlement, TransUnion set aside $75 million dollars in an escrow account to compensate persons whose credit information was illegally sold by the U.S. credit reporting company to target marketing companies in the United States between the years 1987 and 2000.  If you are one of the tens of thousands of Americans who used or had any form of credit or credit cards, or had any kind of loan, including a car loan, home loan or student loan, between 1987 and 2000, you likely have a claim under the class action settlement for money damages against TransUnion.  The deadline for making such a claim against TransUnion under the 2008 TransUnion class action settlement agreement to make a claim against the $75 million dollar settlement fund is September 17, 2010!

Unfortunately, TransUnion is not just going to hand over $75 Million Dollars to you – you will have to hire a lawyer and file a lawsuit to make your claim for this money. To find out if you can make a claim against the $75 million dollars put into an account by TransUnion to settle the class action lawsuit you must fill out the form at the “Make A Claim Today” link at the top of this page.

The deadline to file a lawsuit to preserve your claim is September 17, 2010. To find out if you have a claim against TransUnion, click this link to fill out our confidential client questionnaire and contract. If you qualify, we will pursue a claim on your behalf with no cost or expense to you unless we win your case. We are ready to help you make a claim against TransUnion for a portion of the $75 million class action settlement fund today.

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Do I Likely Qualify to Make A Claim against the TransUnion Class Action Settlement stemming from the TransUnion Class Action Lawsuit?

Unless you’ve managed to avoid borrowing money in the past 21 years — we’re talking everything from credit card purchases to buying a home — you’re probably eligible for the class action settlement with TransUnion.   And while the primary registration period for making a passive claim against TransUnion has expired (as of Sept. 24, 2008), you still have the opportunity to make a direct claim and/or file a lawsuit against TransUnion, however, you must act fast and you must file a lawsuit against TransUnion by September 17, 2010 in order to claim a portion of the $75 million settlement fund.

As a part of the now expired passive portion of the settlement, TransUnion had been offering free credit-monitoring services to settle the claims that the company had illegally distributed private information about consumers for marketing purposes. The settlement gave consumers the ability to sign up for either six or nine months of credit monitoring, as more fully discussed in a previous post you can find below.  The eligibility criteria was extremely broad: if you had any open credit account or line of credit between Jan. 1, 1987 and May 28, 2008 you were a member of the class.  More than 150 million consumers were eligible for this settlement, and the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the class-action suit against TransUnion says that roughly only 400,000 signed up for the settlement.

While the initial phase of the settlement described above has since expired, there is still a right to make a direct claim against the $75 million settlement fund as a result of a unique provision placed in the TransUnion class action settlement agreement.  That provision allowed for persons to make “post settlement claims”.   Fill out our form today to see if you qualify to make a post settlement claim in a 2010 lawsuit against TransUnion.  If you had at least one form of credit, or a loan of any type between 1987 and 2000, you will likely qualify to make a claim for a portion of the $75 million dollars.   Sign up today to make your claim against TransUnion for a portion of the $75 million settlement fund!

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$75 Million Dollar Settlement of Class Action Against TransUnion Provides Americans Opportunity for Potential Cash Payments

The team of TransUnion Class Action Settlement Lawyers at the renowned mass action trial firm of Watts Guerra Craft LLP are currently handling over ten thousand claims against US credit reporting agency TransUnion.  The claims made by our law firm, and the related lawsuits against TransUnion, focus primarily on issues arising from a 2008 class action settlement with the credit reporting agency.  The TransUnion Class Action arose out of TransUnion’s sale of private credit information to target marketing companies for use in junk mail and unsolicited telemarketing campaigns throughout the United States.  Most of these offending sales of marketing materials took place between 1987 and 2000, and if you are one of the tens of thousands of Americans who had a car loan, home loan, student loan, credit card, and/or retail line of credit (for example, a Sears card) during that time frame, then TransUnion might have sold your private credit information to one or more target marketing companies.  We contend that TransUnion’s sale of your private credit information for profit to various marketing companies broke federal law and (together with all such sales) generated tens of millions of dollars in profits for the credit reporting titan.  Quite simply, TransUnion’s greed and desire for profit could have compromised your private credit information and resulted in annoying telemarketing calls and piles of junk mail.  As a result of these unlawful acts, you may be entitled to money damages for TransUnion.

In the underlying TransUnion Class Action Lawsuit, Defendants TransUnion LLC and Acxiom Corporation established a $75 million settlement fund in order to resolve the class action lawsuit filed against them in the Northern District of Illinois styled In Re TransUnion Corp. Privacy Litigation, Case No. 00-CV-4729, MDL Docket No. 1350. The attorneys at Watts Guerra Craft LLP can help you understand your rights under this settlement agreement, and if you qualify, will make a claim or file a lawsuit for money damages on your behalf.

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The Court granted final approval of the class action settlement nearly two years ago. You may click here to view the Court’s Order. The deadline to register for passive benefits was September 24, 2008, and has since passed. No further passive registrations for benefits are being accepted; however, you may still file a direct lawsuit against TransUnion in order to make a claim for a portion of the $75 million settlement fund.

Watts Guerra Craft LLP is currently representing thousands of clients who are making direct claims and filing direct lawsuits against TransUnion. As part of the settlement agreement with the class action lawsuit lawyers, TransUnion agreed that individual claimants could make direct claims and/or file direct lawsuits against the $75 million class action settlement fund until September 17, 2010.  As a result, you still have the opportunity to make a claim and/or file a lawsuit against Trans Union for potential money damages, but you must act fast.

Importantly, the TransUnion Lawyers at Watts Guerra Craft LLP will represent you on a pure contingency basis, that is, you pay no attorney’s fees, costs or expenses unless we make a recovery on your behalf. We take all the financial risk in connection with prosecuting your TransUnion Lawsuit – you cannot owe us a penny unless we win on your behalf, and then only to the extent we win. Click on the following link to fill our our confidential client questionnaire and contract to see if you qualify.

CLICK HERE TO FILE A CLAIM AGAINST TRANSUNION TODAY!

2008 Class Action Lawsuit Settlement by TransUnion Yields $75 Million Dollar Escrow Fund for Claimants in 2010

The dedicated team of TransUnion Settlement Lawyers and legal staff at the nationally prominent law firm of Watts Guerra Craft LLP have spent the last year preparing evidence and documents in order to file lawsuits against Chicago credit reporting titan TransUnion.  We established this website and created the materials herein for the benefit of our clients and those interested in becoming our clients.  Our mission is quite simple: hold TransUnion accountable for its violations for the Fair Credit Reporting Act throughout the better part of the last two decades.  In the coming months, we intend to file thousands of individual lawsuits against TransUnion and demand that the $75 million dollar TransUnion Class Action Settlement fund resulting from the nationwide TransUnion Settlement in 2008 be paid to our clients.

As many of you are aware, the TransUnion Settlement and the related TransUnion Class Action Lawsuits resulted in a historic $75 million dollar class action settlement being reached in 2008; however, the legal battle had started years before that time.  Beginning in 1999, the company was accused in 14 different lawsuits of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by disclosing more information about consumers than the law allows to marketers of insurance and credit products.  TransUnion was exposed to the potential for a huge verdict being rendered against the company, and as a result, they elected to settle the class action lawsuit for $75 million and free credit reports.  There were essentially five options that the class had under the TransUnion settlement agreement:

1. File an individual lawsuit against Defendant(s) for claims related to target marketing and pre-screening. You could also sign up for six months of credit monitoring and retain this option.

2. Sign up for six months of credit monitoring services. You could have also registered to receive a possible cash payment in the event of a cash distribution or file an individual lawsuit against the Defendants under this option.

3. Sign up for nine months of enhanced credit monitoring services. If you chose this option, you will not receive any further benefits, including a cash payment, and you will not be able to file an individual lawsuit against the Defendants.

4. Register to receive a possible cash payment. You could also sign up for six months of credit monitoring with this option; however if you received a cash payment, you could not file an individual lawsuit against the Defendants.

5. Do Nothing: You won’t get any benefits. You will keep your right to sue the Defendants individually.

If you are one of the thousands who qualified for this class action lawsuit, that is, anyone who had a car loan, home loan, student loan, credit card or retail line of credit between 1987 and 2000, you still have options today in 2010.  While you no longer can select free credit reports from the list of 5 options above (those options expired Sept. 24, 2008), you are still able to file what the settlement termed a “post settlement claim.”  Post settlement claims are what this website and our lawsuits are about.  If you qualify under our broad qualifying criteria, sign up at the make a claim link, and we’ll make a claim against the $75 million dollars for you.

The posts and comments on this website regarding the TransUnion Settlement are designed to provide insight into that 2008 settlement and help you determine whether you might consider making a claim against TransUnion under that settlement. The posts on this site, however, are solely the opinion of the TransUnion Class Action Settlement Lawyers at Watts Guerra Craft LLP.  Nothing that appears in the TransUnion Settlement website is intended to be, nor is it, legal advice.  Indeed, if you seek legal advice please fill out our client questionnaire and contract, and if you qualify, we will contact you related to your options for making a claim against TransUnion.

If you wish to communicate with a TransUnion Settlement Lawyer feel free to do so directly through this website by using the Make a Claim link, or email us at transunion@wgclawfirm.com.  If you would like to fill out our secure and confidential client questionnaire and contract to see if you qualify for the TransUnion Lawsuit please click on the following link to fill out our confidential client questionnaire and contract.

CLICK HERE TO FILE A CLAIM AGAINST TRANSUNION TODAY!