A lawsuit has been filed against Daimler Chrysler Financial Services, and several affiliated companies, over lost confidential client data. The Canadian lawsuit, filed on behalf of four named individuals from Saskatoon, Montreal, Winnipeg and Edmonton, was filed in Regina's Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatchewan and is seeking class action status for "all individuals in Saskatchewan, Canada and elsewhere whose personal information was transferred to the defendants and has been lost by the defendants," the complaint states.
The plaintiffs allege that the companies were negligent when handling confidential client data and not notifying clients after a archive tape of that data was "lost in transit" sometime between January and May 2008. The named defendants are Daimler Chrysler Financial Services Canada Inc., Chrysler Canada Inc., Daimler Chrysler Services Canada Inc., Daimler Canada Finance Inc., Daimler Chrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, Chrysler LLC, Cerberus Capital Management LP, United Parcel Service Canada Ltd. and United Parcel Service of America.
