2020 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 25 - Fair Credit Reporting Act
380-L - Civil Liability for Willful Noncompliance.

Universal Citation: NY Gen Bus L § 380-L (2020)
§  380-l. Civil liability for willful noncompliance. Any person, firm,
partnership, corporation,  or  association  whose  knowing  and  willful
violation  of section three hundred eighty-s of this article resulted in
the  transmission  or  provision  to  a  consumer  reporting  agency  of
information  that would otherwise not have been transmitted or provided,
and any consumer reporting agency or user of information  who  or  which
willfully  and  knowingly  fails  to comply with any requirement imposed
under this article with respect  to  any  consumer  is  liable  to  that
consumer in an amount equal to the sum of:

(a) Any actual damages sustained by the consumer as a result of such failure or as a result of a violation of section three hundred eighty-s of this article;

(b) Such amount of punitive damages as the court may allow; and

(c) In the case of any successful action to enforce any liability under this section, the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney's fees as determined by the court.

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