Lawsuit: Chase Bank declared Fla. woman dead

[Zephie]

SANFORD, Fla. – A central Florida woman says she's having numerous financial troubles because of a bank error that caused Chase Bank USA to declare her dead last November.

Wrenella Pierre has filed a lawsuit and Chase officials said Monday they're investigating how the mistake happened.

When Pierre and her husband built their home in 2007, they got two mortgages through Chase.

According to the lawsuit, the bank notified credit-reporting agencies last year that Pierre had died. They sent a letter of condolence to the family, saying someone from the bank would be in touch about the mortgage.

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110712/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_woman_declared_dead
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She both showed up at the local branch and consulted with bank officials, but she is still considered "dead" by credit reporting agencies.

[krispos42]

1. She was spending the year dead for tax purposes, no doubt.

Obscure? ;-)

[Turbineguy]

2. Didn't Mark Twain

have a saying about that?

[csziggy]

3. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

(Actually, in 1897, when reports of the illness of James Ross Clemens, a cousin, were somehow misconstrued to mean that Twain himself was lying at death's door in London, he cleared up matters by telling the reporter who'd stopped by to check on him that "The report of my death was an exaggeration." The 'greatly' was added by Twain himself years after the fact in preparing an account of this incident. In his first draft he has himself directing the reporter to "Say the report is exaggerated," but in a later draft he scribbled "greatly" in front of "exaggerated." And there was never a wire sent to a London paper, as the anecdote now has it.)
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp

[sakabatou]

4. ...

:wtf:

[ananda]

5. As of this week, I'm out of Chase for good and all!

Hooray hooray hooray!

[Lance_Boyle]

6. Sooooo...

Chase is dead to you now?