Sec. 15. (a) A consumer who suffers injury by an act of a consumer reporting agency that violates this chapter may bring a civil action against the consumer reporting agency in a circuit or superior court in the county in which the consumer resides.
(b) A person who knowingly or intentionally fails to comply with any requirement imposed under this chapter with respect to a consumer is liable to that consumer in an amount equal to the sum of the following:
(1) The greater of:
(A) the amount of actual damages sustained by the consumer as a result of the failure to comply; or
(B) five hundred dollars ($500).
However, the amount awarded to a consumer under this subdivision may not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000), regardless of the consumer's actual damages.
(2) Such punitive damages as the court may allow.
(3) In the case of a successful action by a consumer under this section, the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney's fees as determined by the court.
As added by P.L.104-2007, SEC.1.
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