{"id":1215,"date":"2022-04-21T00:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/index.php\/settlement\/ally-financial-smartlease-contracts-class-action\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T04:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:24:20","slug":"ally-financial-smartlease-contracts-class-action","status":"publish","type":"settlement","link":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/settlement\/ally-financial-smartlease-contracts-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally Financial SmartLease Contracts Class Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bank, Ally Financial, has agreed to a settlement of $19.7 million in order to end a class action lawsuit. The company allegedly failed to disclose hidden fees part of their lease-to-purchase program called &#8220;SmartLease Contracts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This settlement will go toward refunds for affected Ally clients. Records revealed consumers paid anywhere from $50 to $1,000 extra for their cars than the price listed on the lease, an average of $238.06.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ally continues to believe that its customer experience is best in class, but also believes that settling the case at this time is in the best interests of all parties,&#8221; an Ally spokeswoman said in a statement.&nbsp;A final approval hearing is expected in early October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bank, Ally Financial, has agreed to a settlement of $19.7 million in order to end a class action lawsuit. The company allegedly failed to disclose hidden fees part of their lease-to-purchase program called &#8220;SmartLease Contracts.&#8221; This settlement will go toward refunds for affected Ally clients. Records revealed consumers paid anywhere from $50 to $1,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/settlement"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement\/1215\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}