More Than 160 Former Hertz Customers Are Suing Company Over Claims It Falsified Stolen Car Reports

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‘I Lost Everything’: More Than 160 Former Hertz Customers Are Suing Company Over Claims It Falsified Stolen Car Reports, Landing Some Drivers In Jail

Angelina Velasquez
Mon, November 8, 2021, 4:38 PM·4 min read

A slew of former Hertz Car Rental customers are suing the company for allegedly having them falsely arrested and jailed.

More than 165 customers from Delaware, California, Florida, Illinois and other states have come forward filing legal complaints against Hertz. Each of them claiming to have rented cars from the company only to be stopped, arrested, and sometimes jailed over accusations that the vehicle was reported missing.


Hertz Car Rental. (Photo: Creative Commons)
The customers who each have rental agreements and bank statements to prove their innocence say that Hertz’s unreliable system and filing of false stolen car reports is to blame. For instance, James Tolen of Houston recalled being stopped by police last year, just two days before Christmas.

“It was just terrifying. It was bad. Actually, I was really thinking that I wasn’t gonna make it home,” he recounted to CBS News. Tolen and his wife, Krystal Carter, say they rented from Hertz at least twelve times that year.

Tolen, who was just leaving a contracting gig, said the officers had their guns drawn as they ordered him to exit the vehicle, lift his shirt to show he was not in possession of a weapon, and slowly make his way towards them during the traffic stop.

When officers handcuffed Tolen and explained he had been pulled over because the vehicle was listed as stolen he was perplexed. He said officers immediately saw him as a “felon” but that perception changed when Tolen showed the officers his rental agreement that listed him as an authorized driver.

“That’s when I heard officers telling them [Hertz] ‘Do you know what you guys put this guy through? He’s here for a stolen vehicle, his contract is valid, we’re going to give him back the vehicle, and you guys need to get a better system,” he explained.

 

Hey @jiggyfly

@pgabriel > you

 

@TheRealist137
I already made this thread before everyone else
Check the date

Don’t forget I’m a 99er not a slow tmac fan
Before making a thread saying that 99ers didn’t know
Face it we know
Like a year ago
@J.R. @Os Trigonum

 

Damn you made this post like last thanksgiving
Like before we had Jabari

why are Mcgrady fans so slow
?
@TheRealist137 @rocketsjudoka

 

@TheRealist137
Tmac fans are welcome on the original thread about the topic posted a year ago

we all know you don’t care about crime
You don’t care about anything past the first round of the playoffs !

@Os Trigonum
@pgabriel @jiggyfly
@J.R.
@Jontro
@AroundTheWorld @Salvy

 

@Os Trigonum replied
He’s one of the iconic posters on the board

quality over quantity
Kobe over Tmac

lots of posters have fallen off the d&d like the second round
Not championship posters like OS and 99ers

 

@Sweet Lou 4 2

 

I’m an Avis preferred and hertz president club
@AroundTheWorld

from all of the woke non contributors
I don’t think these gasoline climate change people rent cars

so they don’t know
@J.R.

 

His fans and himself blamed everyone for his lack of success

harden was a better team player and that dude did step back 3s all the time
@Os Trigonum

hertz did me wrong once but I’m ok now with them

 

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