Hertz customers file another suit amid false-arrest claims

by: Rich McHugh, Sydney Kalich

Posted: Jul 18, 2022 / 10:19 AM CDT

Updated: Jul 18, 2022 / 10:20 AM CDT

(NewsNation) — Hertz is coping with another lawsuit after dozens of customers sued the rental automobile big, claiming they have been wrongly arrested and accused of stealing vehicles they rented.

NewsNation previously reported on the nightmare situations that led customers to sue Hertz final 12 months. More than 200 customers have been suing the rental automobile big for psychological and emotional damages after they are saying they have been falsely arrested, and even jailed, after Hertz filed police stories saying the vehicles they rented have been stolen. Last month, NewsNation’s Rich McHugh confirmed Hertz was providing customers settlements. The new lawsuit is predicated off these earlier claims.

The customers say the vehicles have been legitimately rented and plenty of have had the fees eliminated, however not earlier than spending time in jail in some instances. That included Julius Burnside, who’s a part of one of many lawsuits towards Hertz.

“I felt it was a joke..like you’re telling me I got a warrant for my arrest for something I paid for. That’s not possible,” Burnside told NewsNation last year.

“This has been going on for two years. This latest lawsuit is 47 of the claimants have been given the green light to take their cases out of the bankruptcy court. What that means is they can now have a trial by jury of their peers, basically in the state of Delaware,’ McHugh said on “Morning in America.” “There are still more cases that are sitting in bankruptcy court, and this is the first wave of them. But now we’re officially seeing this process begin.”

Hertz has not agreed to do a sit-down interview with NewsNation however mentioned in an announcement it disagrees with the chapter court docket’s rulings. McHugh mentioned he anticipated the settlement to hit a billion {dollars}.

“In the last two years in bankruptcy, our hands were tied behind our back and our foot was stapled to the floor,” mentioned lawyer Francis Alexander Malofiy in accordance with Yahoo! Finance. “Now the gloves come off.”