N.Y. General Business Law § 380-l: Civil liability for willful noncompliance

§ 380-l. Civil liability for willful noncompliance. Any person, firm,

partnership, corporation, or association whose knowing and willful

violation of section three hundred eighty-s of this article resulted in

the transmission or provision to a consumer reporting agency of

information that would otherwise not have been transmitted or provided,

and any consumer reporting agency or user of information who or which

willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any requirement imposed

under this article with respect to any consumer is liable to that

consumer in an amount equal to the sum of:

(a) Any actual damages sustained by the consumer as a result of such

failure or as a result of a violation of section three hundred eighty-s

of this article;

(b) Such amount of punitive damages as the court may allow; and

(c) In the case of any successful action to enforce any liability

under this section, the costs of the action together with reasonable

attorney's fees as determined by the court.