BUSA 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wachovia, Wells Fargo, Bank Teller
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Appellees womble, carlyle, sandridge & rice, robert rles ambler, jr. , john gregory perry. What: in stephen kale jenkins brought a tort action against wachovia bank, n. a. , wells fargo. Pertinent to this appeal, jenkins asserted claims that the bank negligently failed to protect the information, breached a duty of confidentiality, and invaded his privacy. The trial court granted the bank"s motion for judgment on the pleadings. The teller gave the information to her husband, whose last name also was jenkins and who used the information to steal jenkins"s identity. This damaged his credit, hindered his efforts to obtain loans, required him to spend enormous amounts of time and energy trying to correct false credit reports, and caused him emotional injury. Ltd. partnership v. wachovia bank, n. a. , 2009 wl. 290992 (m. d. fla. 2009), for the proposition that the glba does not impose upon it a duty to protect its customers" information.