![]() Hardison $2,500 in compensatory damages, and these damages were trebled to $7,500.00 due the willful violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA). In assessing damages, Judge Clarkson awarded Ms. Hardison brought the vehicle back to Checkered Flag with her concerns, it stated that there was nothing it could do about it since she had driven it off the lot. Hardison asked why there was a dent in the engine, Checkered Flag’s salesman stated it came from a wrench falling on it. ![]() In fact, according to the decision, the vehicle had been owned by numerous owners, repossessed, had suffered a serious front end collision, all of which the dealership knew about, and the mileage was questionable. Judge Clarkson found that Checkered Flag fraudulently misrepresented the vehicle to Sunshine Hardison, as a one owner non-wrecked vehicle and that it concealed the vehicle’s prior repossession, something which the Virginia Consumer Protection Act requires to be disclosed, according to John Cole Gayle, Jr., of The Consumer Law Group, a Richmond law firm, who represented Ms. JanuA judgment for intentional fraud and willful violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act against Checkered Flag Motor Car Company was entered by the Virginia Beach Circuit Court on Janubased on an arbitration decision by an arbitrator, retired Norfolk Circuit Court Judge, John E. ![]()
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