Court Issues Identity Theft Decision
The South Carolina High Court issued a ruling addressing the question of whether victims of identity theft have a valid claim of negligence against a credit card company that issues a card to an imposter. The court ruled that credit card companies could not be held responsible for enablement of imposter fraud, as the relationship between credit card issuers and victims of identity theft is too attenuated to rise to the level of a duty between them. Case name is Huggins v. Citibank.
Decision at
http://www.sclawyersweekly.com/archives/sc/opin/sup/25691.htm
