Credit Agencies Sued Over Bankrupt Account Reporting
RICHMOND, Va. -- A group of consumers in Virginia who have previously filed bankruptcy are suing the credit repositories because their former debts don't show as discharged on their credit reports and instead show as outstanding and delinquent. In other credit-related litigation, one borrower claims that after two of the credit agencies settled a lawsuit she filed against them, she began receiving calls from creditors trying to collect someone else's debt. So she is back in court.

For three years, Sharon Ross has battled with credit-reporting agencies.

Last year, she sued two of the big three agencies for mixing her credit history with that of a stranger in Chicago -- a place where she neither had worked nor lived.
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