Montana Code Annotated 2021

TITLE 31. CREDIT TRANSACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 3. RELATED CREDIT PRACTICES

Part 1. Consumer Reporting Agencies

Civil Liability For Willful Noncompliance

31-3-142. Civil liability for willful noncompliance. Any consumer reporting agency or user of information which willfully fails to comply with any requirement imposed under this part with respect to any consumer is liable to that consumer in an amount equal to the sum of:

(1) any actual damages sustained by the consumer as a result of the failure;

(2) such amounts of punitive damages as the court may allow; and

(3) in the case of any successful action to enforce any liability under this section, the costs of the action together with reasonable attorneys' fees as determined by the court.

History: En. 18-517 by Sec. 17, Ch. 547, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 18-517.