The Fair Credit Reporting Act or ("FCRA") governs your credit report and what is contained in it. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, credit reporting agencies have a duty to produce accurate credit reports.
Further, any businesses that provide information to the credit reporting agencies must investigate the information that they are providing, but you can only sue them if you have disputed the accuracy directly to the credit reporting agencies.
Once again, unless you report your dispute directly to the credit reporting agencies, the businesses on your credit report cannot be held liable.
Therefore, if you ever find an inaccurate account information on your credit report, dispute that information directly to the credit reporting agency. To be thorough, you may then want to send a copy of that to the business directly.
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