Hertz said Monday it will pay $168 million to settle hundreds of claims by customers who were falsely reported by the rental car company as having stolen its vehicles, with some innocent renters arrested and jailed for weeks or months over the reports.
In many of the cases, the customer had paid for and properly returned the car weeks or months prior — or had never rented a car at all.Drew Seaser, a real estate appraiser in Colorado, learned of a warrant for his arrest in Georgia when he was stopped at the airport on the way to Mexico with his family. Seaser
It was not immediately clear whether Seaser, Knight and Burnside were among the claimants who settled with Hertz, which emerged from
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