Serve Equifax Information Services: CT Corp Registered Agent

As of 2026, FCRA matters against Equifax require service on Equifax Information Services LLC — the operating entity that maintains consumer credit files — not on Equifax Inc., the publicly traded parent. Name Equifax Information Services LLC as defendant. Serve its registered agent at the confirmed address in the forum state.

Filings that name “Equifax, Inc.,” “Equifax,” or “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.” as the FCRA defendant share a common defect: each names an entity that either holds no consumer files or no longer exists as an active corporate registration. Equifax Inc. (FEIN 58-0401110) is the publicly traded parent — NYSE: EFX — and operates as a holding entity above the credit-reporting operating subsidiary. Naming Equifax Inc. on a § 1681e(b) accuracy claim or a § 1681i reinvestigation claim names a defendant that does not maintain the credit files at issue, which produces a Rule 12(b)(6) failure-to-state-a-claim posture before the matter reaches the merits. Every Eleventh Circuit and Ninth Circuit FCRA decision addressing the Equifax family captions the operating-entity defendant as Equifax Information Services LLC — not as the parent.

Accurint Comprehensive Business Reports generated in May 2026 identify three principal entities under the Equifax brand that recur in litigation. Equifax Information Services LLC (FEIN 58-0209400, LexID 0000-4967-0837) is the active operating LLC and the correct FCRA defendant; principal office at 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402. Equifax Inc. (FEIN 58-0401110, LexID 0000-4972-2431) is the publicly traded parent at the same Atlanta address — established 1913, foreign-qualified across 40 state filings under the parent FEIN. Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. (FEIN 58-0209400 — same FEIN as EIS LLC) is the predecessor Inc. designation that converted to LLC form; it survives in older state filings and OCR-degraded court captions but is no longer the operative entity. Two additional Equifax entities appear in the family — Equifax Workforce Solutions, Inc. (employment-data, “The Work Number”) and Equifax Consumer Services LLC (direct-to-consumer products) — and each is the correct defendant only for matters arising from that subsidiary’s specific operations.

OCR transcription errors in court electronic-filing systems produce caption variants that frustrate service. Pennsylvania Montgomery County Prothonotary civil filings include “EQUIFAX INFOMATION SERIVCES LLC” (filing 201615226), “EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICIES LL” (filing 201405964), and “EXUIFAX CREDIT INFORMATION SERVI” (Santa Monica Superior Court filing 18SMSC03358) — each a recurring keying defect that auto-populates from prior-case histories in court systems. None of these spelling variants corresponds to a Georgia state-of-organization filing under that name, and each produces a search miss on the Georgia Secretary of State Corporations Division portal when queried directly. A pre-draft caption verification against the current Georgia SoS record for “Equifax Information Services LLC” — the verbatim active-entity name — eliminates the OCR-variant risk before the summons is served.

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Which Equifax Are You Trying to Serve?

The Equifax entity family contains one publicly traded parent, one active operating LLC that maintains consumer credit files, one predecessor Inc. designation that survives in legacy filings, and at least two additional operating subsidiaries with discrete lines of business. Selecting the correct entity before drafting the caption is not a pre-litigation courtesy — it is a pleading prerequisite under FCRA. The 15 U.S.C. § 1681e(b) duty to maintain reasonable procedures for accuracy attaches to the consumer reporting agency that maintains the file. Equifax Inc. holds no consumer files. Equifax Information Services LLC does. A complaint that names the parent on a file-accuracy claim names a defendant that did not engage in the conduct alleged.

Three-Tier Equifax Structure: Why Accurint Returns Multiple Results

Entity	Jurisdiction / FEIN	Role	Service Status
Equifax Inc.	Georgia parent; FEIN 58-0401110; NYSE: EFX	Publicly traded parent; holds no consumer credit files	WRONG DEFENDANT for FCRA file-accuracy and reinvestigation claims
Equifax Information Services LLC	Georgia LLC; FEIN 58-0209400; LexID 0000-4967-0837	Active operating LLC; maintains consumer credit files	PRIMARY TARGET — FCRA, credit-report disputes
Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.	Georgia (predecessor); same FEIN 58-0209400	Predecessor Inc. designation; converted to LLC form	LEGACY NAME — surviving in older filings only
Equifax Workforce Solutions, Inc.	Missouri-domiciled subsidiary (formerly TALX)	Employment-data subsidiary; operates “The Work Number”	SUBSIDIARY — employment-verification matters only
Equifax Consumer Services LLC	Texas LLC; same FEIN 58-0401110 as parent	Direct-to-consumer products subsidiary	SUBSIDIARY — direct-to-consumer disputes only

Two Accurint artifacts require identification before caption-drafting. The first is the Inc.-to-LLC conversion: Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. and Equifax Information Services LLC share the same FEIN 58-0209400 because the LLC is the converted form of the predecessor Inc. Captions drafted from older case-management templates may name the Inc. designation; current filings must name the LLC. Searching the Georgia Secretary of State portal under “Equifax Credit Information Services” returns inactive results — the active entity is registered as “Equifax Information Services LLC.” The second artifact class is OCR transcription error: in addition to the spelling variants identified above, “EQUIFAX CREDIT INFORMATION SVCS” and “EQUIFAX CREDIT INFO SERV INC” appear in NYC Department of Finance tax warrants and California small-claims filings with sufficient frequency to suggest a recurring keying defect across multiple court systems.

Equifax Inc. is the parent. Equifax Information Services LLC is the operating defendant. The same Atlanta address houses both — but only one maintains consumer credit files.

Equifax Inc.: The Non-Operating Parent

Equifax Inc. is a Georgia for-profit corporation, established in 1913, with principal place of business at 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402. The parent is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol EFX and is foreign-qualified across 40 state filings as of May 2026 Accurint verification. FEIN 58-0401110 and LexID 0000-4972-2431 confirm parent-entity identity across all 40 corporation filings. Mark W. Begor has served as Chief Executive Officer since April 2018 and is confirmed in that role through Equifax’s 2026 investor disclosures; John W. Gamble Jr. serves as Chief Financial Officer.

The parent holds no consumer credit files. Equifax Inc. is a holding-and-management entity whose operating revenue is consolidated from its credit-reporting, employment-data, identity, marketing, and international subsidiaries. The 2017 CFPB consent order (File No. 2017-CFPB-0014) imposing a $2.5 million civil money penalty on Equifax for deceptive credit-score marketing, and the 2019 multistate data-breach global settlement of up to $700 million in In re: Equifax, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL No. 2800, 1:17-md-2800-TWT (N.D. Ga.), named Equifax Inc. as a respondent because the CFPB’s regulatory authority and the multistate AG coalition’s enforcement authority both reach holding-company structures in regulatory enforcement. That captioning does not establish Equifax Inc. as a state-registered defendant for private FCRA litigation — and federal courts addressing the issue have consistently dismissed § 1681e(b) and § 1681i claims against Equifax Inc. for failure to state a claim, on the ground that the parent does not maintain the consumer credit files whose accuracy or reinvestigation is at issue.

Equifax Inc.’s registered-agent network across its 40 foreign-qualified states uses Corporation Service Company (CSC), Prentice-Hall Corporation System, and Illinois Corporation Service Company depending on the forum state — not C T Corporation System. In New York, the parent’s registered agent is The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc. at 80 State Street, Albany, New York 12207-2541 (filing 1722, foreign incorporation date 02/04/1914). In California, the parent’s registered agent is Corporation Service Company (dba CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service) at 2710 Gateway Oaks Drive Ste 150N, Sacramento, California 95833-3502 (filing 0075536, in good standing). In Washington, D.C. — the venue for federal-question matters that reach the parent in regulatory contexts — Corporation Service Company at 1156 15th Street NW Ste 605, Washington, D.C. 20005-1767 (filing 551424). These are the parent’s agents; private FCRA matters do not name the parent and therefore do not use these addresses.

Equifax Information Services LLC: The Primary FCRA Defendant

Equifax Information Services LLC is the operating entity that maintains consumer credit files and furnishes consumer reports under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. FEIN 58-0209400 and Accurint LexID 0000-4967-0837 confirm operating-entity identity across 96 corporation filings dating from 1937. Principal office is 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402 — co-located with Equifax Inc.’s parent address but operating under separate corporate registration. The current operating-entity executives, per Accurint records dated 12/10/2024, include William V. Catucci as President, Kent Mast as Secretary, and Michael G. Schirk as Senior Vice President.

The Inc.-to-LLC conversion is the operationally significant fact for caption drafting. The predecessor entity, Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc., shares FEIN 58-0209400 with the current EIS LLC because the LLC is the legal-form-converted continuation of the Inc. — not a successor or affiliate. Captions naming “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.” reach the same legal person as captions naming “Equifax Information Services LLC,” but the current operative state-filing record is the LLC. Service on the LLC’s registered agent satisfies state-court and federal-court service requirements under any applicable state long-arm or corporate-service statute; service captioned to the Inc. predecessor at the LLC’s current registered agent generates an agent-acceptance ambiguity that Equifax’s counsel may exploit on a Rule 12(b)(5) motion. Caption-update before service, not caption-correction after a rejected return, is the operationally clean path.

The records-routing address for FCRA records-only subpoenas commanding production of a consumer’s credit file is PO Box 4081, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4081 — the EIS records-custodian routing address verified in Accurint across multiple lien filings, property records, and Connected Businesses entries. This PO Box is not the litigation service-of-process address; it is the operational endpoint for records-only consumer-file pulls. Litigation service of process and litigation-related subpoenas commanding corporate-representative depositions or document production beyond the consumer’s own file go to the LLC’s registered agent in the forum state — not to PO Box 4081.

Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.: The Surviving Predecessor Designation

Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. is the predecessor Inc. form of the current EIS LLC — same FEIN, same Atlanta principal office, same operational role as consumer-file maintainer, but a legal-form designation that has not been the active operative entity since the LLC conversion. The Inc. designation persists in three contexts that produce caption errors. First, older case-management software at law firms continues to populate “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.” as the FCRA defendant from prior-case templates. Second, court electronic-filing systems with auto-population from defendant-history records continue to surface the Inc. caption when partial-name search queries return prior cases. Third, OCR transcription of pre-2010 case captions reproduces the Inc. designation in matters where the captioning question was never re-evaluated.

The 60 lien-and-judgment records in Accurint show the Inc. designation under multiple OCR-degraded variants. NJ Superior Court Monmouth County Lien #44 — filing DJ-258974-2003 — names “EQUIFAX CREDIT INFORMANTION SERVICES INC” [sic — “INFORMANTION”] as creditor in a $691,146 judgment against Hamilton Capital Group; a transcription error in a captioning that reaches the predecessor Inc. designation. NYC Department of Finance tax warrants from 1993 and 1996 against “EQUIFAX CREDIT INFO SERV INC” at PO Box 4081 confirm the legacy Inc. captioning persisted in NYC tax records through the late 1990s. PA Montgomery County Prothonotary filings from 2014 to 2017 show the post-conversion era — those captions name “EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES LLC” with the residual OCR variants noted above. The pattern: the LLC has been the operative entity since the conversion; older Inc. captions are residual, not active.

Operating Subsidiary Routing: When EIS LLC Is Not the Correct Defendant

Two Equifax operating subsidiaries carry independent corporate registrations and each handles a discrete line of business. Selecting EIS LLC as the defendant in a matter that arose from a subsidiary’s conduct produces a caption error parallel to selecting Equifax Inc. — the named defendant did not engage in the conduct alleged, and service on EIS LLC however correctly executed does not cure a complaint captioned to the wrong Equifax entity. The caption-controls-service doctrine applies across the entire Equifax family: the entity named in the caption is the entity that must be served, and service on a different — even closely affiliated — Equifax entity does not satisfy that requirement.

For employment-verification matters, including disputes over information furnished through Equifax’s “The Work Number” employment and income database, the correct defendant is Equifax Workforce Solutions, Inc. (formerly TALX Corporation). The Work Number maintains employer-furnished employment and income records separately from the consumer credit files maintained by EIS LLC; FCRA claims arising from inaccurate employment-verification reports are governed by the same § 1681 framework but reach a different operating subsidiary. For direct-to-consumer credit monitoring, identity-protection products, and disputes over Equifax’s myEquifax consumer portal, the correct defendant is Equifax Consumer Services LLC (Texas LLC, Atlanta GA). For matters arising from Equifax’s healthcare data operations, pre-filing matter classification against the current operating entity is required before caption drafting because the historical Equifax Healthcare Information Services, Inc. registrations show mixed status — most NOT IN GOOD STANDING or DISSOLVED across 30+ historical state filings under FEIN 58-0209400. The routing principle is conduct-based: identify which Equifax entity operated the system, maintained the file, or furnished the data that gave rise to the claim — that entity is the correct defendant, regardless of the Equifax brand name that appeared in any consumer-facing communication.

The Statutory Service Framework for Equifax Information Services LLC

Equifax Information Services LLC presents three distinct service paths depending on the forum: Georgia-domestic service (state of organization), foreign-qualified state service (states where EIS LLC holds an active foreign-LLC qualification), and federal court service under FRCP 4(h)(1)(B). A fourth path — subpoena service under FRCP 45 or state subpoena rules — bifurcates between litigation subpoenas served on the LLC’s registered agent and records-only subpoenas routed to the EIS records-custodian PO Box. Each path uses a different procedural authority but converges on a multi-vendor registered-agent network: Corporation Service Company (CSC), C T Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall Corporation System depending on the forum state. The statutory references below govern which path is available; the agent addresses below govern where service is executed once the correct path is selected.

Georgia-Domestic Service: State of Organization

Equifax Information Services LLC is a Georgia limited liability company. In Georgia-filed actions — including matters before the Fulton County State Court, Fulton County Superior Court, and the Northern District of Georgia at Atlanta — EIS LLC is suable as a Georgia-domestic defendant rather than as a foreign LLC qualified to do business in Georgia. The governing procedural rule is O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209, which authorizes service on a Georgia LLC by serving the registered agent on file with the Georgia Secretary of State, an executive officer or general manager of the LLC, or — if the registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served — the Georgia Secretary of State as substitute agent under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209(f).

The Northern District of Georgia at Atlanta is the federal venue most frequently associated with EIS LLC matters because EIS LLC’s principal office is at 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402 — within the Atlanta Division. Multistate FCRA enforcement actions and consolidated FCRA class actions naming EIS LLC have been venued in N.D. Ga. on general-jurisdiction grounds. The 2017–2019 Equifax data-breach multidistrict litigation, In re: Equifax, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL No. 2800, 1:17-md-2800-TWT (N.D. Ga.), consolidated hundreds of breach-related actions in N.D. Ga. before Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. For Georgia-filed FCRA matters in which the breach litigation’s procedural posture is relevant, service on EIS LLC at the registered agent confirmed via the Georgia Secretary of State Corporations Division portal — under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209 — is the operationally clean path.

Foreign-Qualified State Service: The Multi-Vendor Agent Network

In states where EIS LLC holds an active foreign-LLC qualification, service is made on the registered agent on file with that state’s secretary of state. Unlike Experian’s single-vendor C T Corporation System network across its 41 qualified states, EIS LLC’s agent network is split across three Wolters Kluwer–owned registered-agent vendors: Corporation Service Company (CSC), C T Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall Corporation System. The vendor varies by state and historical filing path. Pre-dispatch verification against the current state Secretary of State portal is required for every state — vendor identity cannot be inferred from a prior state’s filing.

In New York, multiple registered-agent records on file under FEIN 58-0209400 reflect the multi-vendor pattern. C T Corporation System at 28 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10005-1400 is the verified service address for EIS-family California-incorporation filings (Direct Marketing Solutions LLC filings #6 and #12, both ACTIVE / IN GOOD STANDING) — this is the same Manhattan address used for Experian Information Solutions, Inc. service in New York. A second CT Corporation System address — 1633 Broadway, New York, New York 10019-6708, Date Last Seen 04/28/2026 — also appears in EIS-family registered-agent records. The governing authority for state-court service in New York is CPLR § 311-a, which authorizes service on a foreign limited liability company by delivery to “any member or manager of the limited liability company in this state, any agent authorized by the limited liability company to receive process or any other agent authorized by appointment to receive process.” CT Corporation System’s authorization for an EIS-family entity is established by the relevant New York DOS foreign-LLC registration, and that authorization is confirmed by the agent-status lookup available through CT Corp’s public records portal before dispatch.

In Louisiana — the only filing in this Accurint pull that shows EIS LLC as ACTIVE under its current LLC name — the verified service address is Corporation Service Company at 450 Laurel Street Floor 8, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70801-1834 (filing 34140132Q, Foreign LLC Statement of Change filed 09/01/2023). Louisiana service on a foreign LLC is governed by La. R.S. 12:1308.1, which authorizes service on the registered agent on file with the Louisiana Secretary of State. In states where Direct Marketing Solutions LLC and Healthcare Information Services Inc. predecessor filings show CSC, Prentice-Hall, or CT Corporation as the historical agent, those registrations are not the current EIS LLC registrations — pre-dispatch verification against the current state SoS portal is required to confirm which vendor holds the current EIS LLC registration in that state.

In California, the parent Equifax Inc.’s registered agent is Corporation Service Company at 2710 Gateway Oaks Drive Ste 150N, Sacramento, California 95833-3502 — the parent address, not the operating LLC. EIS LLC’s California foreign-qualification status requires confirmation via the California Secretary of State Business Search before California-filed FCRA service, because the California governing authority — California Code of Civil Procedure § 415.95 for service on an unincorporated association including a foreign LLC, or CCP § 416.10 for service on a corporation — depends on the LLC’s California registration status. If EIS LLC is foreign-qualified in California, service is on the registered agent confirmed in the California SoS Business Search; if EIS LLC is not separately qualified in California beyond its parent’s registration, the service path requires pre-dispatch confirmation from California counsel.

In Washington State, C T Corporation System at 711 Capitol Way South Ste 204, Olympia, Washington 98501-1267 (Date Last Seen 04/14/2026) is a verified registered-agent address under EIS-family FEIN 58-0209400. In Ohio, CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service (Corporation Service Company) at 50 W Broad Street Ste 1800, Columbus, Ohio 43215-5910 (Date Last Seen 04/27/2026) is the verified agent. In Massachusetts, Prentice-Hall Corp Sys Inc at 84 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109-2202 (Date Last Seen 04/27/2026). In Rhode Island, Prentice-Hall Corp System at 170 Westminster Street Ste 900, Providence, Rhode Island 02903-2101 (Date Last Seen 03/27/2026). Pre-dispatch agent-status confirmation in each state — through the relevant state SoS portal and the relevant vendor’s public records portal — is required for every dispatch.

Pennsylvania Montgomery County Prothonotary records show 25 separate civil filings naming Equifax Information Services LLC since 2014. The volume tracks consumer-driven FCRA matters — not the parent.

Federal Service Under FRCP 4(h)(1)(B)

Federal court service on Equifax Information Services LLC is governed by FRCP 4(h)(1)(B), which authorizes service on a domestic or foreign corporation, partnership, or association “by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to an officer, a managing or general agent, or any other agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process.” Each of EIS LLC’s foreign-qualification filings constitutes an express appointment of the registered agent named in that state’s filing for service-of-process purposes. No additional authorization is required in the forum state beyond the existence of that foreign-qualification filing.

In the Northern District of Georgia at Atlanta — the federal venue where EIS LLC is headquartered and where the consolidated FCRA class actions and the breach-related multidistrict litigation have been venued — federal service may be made either at the EIS LLC Georgia registered agent confirmed via the Georgia SoS portal, or directly at EIS LLC’s principal executive office at 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402, by delivering to an officer, managing member, or general agent. The direct-principal-office path requires confirmation that an officer or managing member is available to accept service; the registered-agent path does not require that confirmation because the registered agent is a professional service with defined acceptance procedures.

In the Eastern District of New York and Southern District of New York — primary federal venues for FCRA claims arising from New York consumers — federal service under FRCP 4(h)(1)(B) uses C T Corporation System at 28 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10005-1400, with a secondary EIS-family CT Corporation System address at 1633 Broadway, New York, New York 10019-6708. The current EIS LLC New York foreign-LLC registration agent should be confirmed via the New York Department of State Business Entity Database before dispatch. The procedural mechanics for SDNY and EDNY federal service track CPLR § 311-a state-court service at the same agent address; the only difference is the authority cited on the return of service. A federal FCRA plaintiff in EDNY serves EIS LLC by delivering to the registered agent at the address confirmed pre-dispatch — the same address, the same agent, and the same physical steps as state-court service.

Subpoena Service: FRCP 45 vs. Litigation Process Service

Subpoena practice against Equifax Information Services LLC bifurcates at the purpose of the subpoena. A subpoena duces tecum under FRCP 45 compelling production of a consumer’s credit file — issued as a records-only production request without accompanying litigation process — is routed through EIS LLC’s records-custodian PO Box: PO Box 4081, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4081. This PO Box is verified across multiple Accurint records as the operational endpoint for EIS records-custodian routing. Subpoenas addressed to PO Box 4081 reach the EIS records-custodian team that processes consumer file productions.

A subpoena that is part of pending litigation and commands a deposition or the production of documents from an EIS LLC corporate representative — as distinct from a records-only consumer-file pull — follows the same service path as litigation process: the registered agent in the forum state. The distinction is conduct-based: if the subpoena compels a corporate-representative appearance or commands document production beyond the consumer’s own credit file, the registered agent is the correct recipient. If the subpoena requests only the consumer’s credit file by account number or Social Security number, PO Box 4081 Atlanta Georgia is the operational route.

Two address artifacts cause rejected subpoenas. First, serving at 1550 Peachtree St NW for litigation-related subpoenas — that address is EIS LLC’s principal office and a permitted FRCP 4(h)(1)(B) federal service location, but it is not the operational records-custodian routing point for FRCP 45 records-only subpoenas. A records-only subpoena delivered to 1550 Peachtree St NW reaches the corporate front-desk, not the records team, and adds processing delay. Second, serving litigation process at PO Box 4081 — the records-custodian team is not the litigation service desk and is not authorized to route litigation process to EIS LLC’s legal department. Pre-service identification of subpoena type eliminates both errors.

FCRA Litigation and Federal Court Service

The Fair Credit Reporting Act is the principal federal statute under which Equifax Information Services LLC faces private litigation, consumer enforcement actions, and regulatory proceedings. FCRA claims are filed in federal district courts under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (federal question jurisdiction) and in state courts under the concurrent jurisdiction provision of 15 U.S.C. § 1681p. In both forums, the correct defendant — as confirmed by every circuit court opinion addressing FCRA claims against the Equifax family — is Equifax Information Services LLC, the operating entity that maintains the consumer credit files, not the parent Equifax Inc. This section addresses the FCRA statutory framework, the standing requirements controlling FCRA federal filings post-2021, the circuit-level precedent bearing directly on EIS LLC, and the regulatory enforcement posture against Equifax.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act: Operative Provisions

The FCRA, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., imposes duties on consumer reporting agencies — a category that includes Equifax Information Services LLC as the entity that maintains and furnishes consumer credit files. Six provisions govern the majority of private FCRA claims against EIS LLC. Section 1681e(b) requires reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy of consumer report information. Section 1681i imposes a reinvestigation duty: when a consumer disputes the accuracy or completeness of information in a credit file, the CRA must conduct a reasonable reinvestigation within 30 days of receiving the dispute. Section 1681g requires the CRA to disclose to any consumer, on request, all information in the consumer’s file. Section 1681n creates liability for willful noncompliance, authorizing statutory damages of $100 to $1,000 per violation plus punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Section 1681o creates liability for negligent noncompliance, authorizing actual damages and attorney’s fees. Section 1681p establishes the statute of limitations: two years from the date the plaintiff discovered the violation, or five years from the date of the violation, whichever is earlier.

Federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 is the primary basis for FCRA claims filed in federal court. Concurrent jurisdiction under 15 U.S.C. § 1681p permits FCRA claims to be filed in state court as well, and CPLR § 311-a service applies in New York state court filings on the same terms as any other foreign-LLC action. The choice of forum does not alter the service path — the registered agent confirmed pre-dispatch in the forum state is the service address for both federal-court FRCP 4(h)(1)(B) service and state-court service under the relevant state’s foreign-LLC service statute.

Article III Standing After Spokeo and TransUnion

Two Supreme Court decisions have narrowed the class of FCRA plaintiffs with Article III standing to sue in federal court. In Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 578 U.S. 330 (2016), the Court held that Article III standing requires a concrete and particularized injury — a bare statutory violation, without more, does not automatically confer standing. Spokeo established the analytical framework but remanded for application, leaving circuit courts to work out what concrete injury means in the FCRA context.

TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), applied the Spokeo framework to a certified FCRA class of 8,185 individuals whose TransUnion credit files contained inaccurate OFAC-alert information linking them to terrorist or drug-trafficking watchlists. Justice Kavanaugh, writing for a 5-4 majority, held that only those plaintiffs who have been concretely harmed by a defendant’s statutory violation may sue that private defendant over that violation in federal court. The Court found that only 1,853 of the 8,185 class members — those whose inaccurate credit files had actually been disseminated to third-party businesses during the class period — had Article III standing. The remaining 6,332 class members, whose inaccurate OFAC information existed in internal TransUnion files but had not been shared with any third party, lacked standing despite the § 1681e(b) statutory violation in their files.

The operational rule for Equifax FCRA matters: no concrete harm, no standing in federal court. Pleadings for FCRA claims against EIS LLC must allege concrete injury beyond the bare § 1681 violation — the inaccurate information must have been disseminated to a third-party creditor, employer, or landlord, resulting in a denial of credit, employment, or housing; an identifiable monetary harm; or a reputational injury traceable to the third-party disclosure. An inaccurate item in an EIS LLC credit file that was never disclosed to any third party during the limitations period does not support a federal § 1681e(b) claim with Article III standing under TransUnion, even if the inaccuracy is clear and EIS LLC failed to correct it on reinvestigation.

Circuit Decisions on Equifax FCRA Liability

The Eleventh Circuit carries the predominant federal FCRA docket involving Equifax Information Services LLC, reflecting EIS LLC’s headquarters in the Northern District of Georgia and the concentration of FCRA class actions filed in that district. Two Eleventh Circuit decisions bear directly on EIS LLC liability and reinvestigation duties.

In Pedro v. Equifax, Inc., 868 F.3d 1275 (11th Cir. 2017), the Eleventh Circuit addressed whether a consumer reporting agency’s reading of § 1681e(b) was objectively reasonable for purposes of willful-noncompliance liability under § 1681n. The panel affirmed dismissal of the willfulness claim on the ground that the CRA’s interpretation of the statute — permitting accurate reporting of authorized-user account status — was not objectively unreasonable. Pedro is binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit on Article III standing for inaccurate-credit-reporting plaintiffs and on the Safeco objective-reasonableness analysis for FCRA willfulness claims. Subsequent Eleventh Circuit decisions — including Losch v. Nationstar Mortgage and the 2025 decision in Nelson v. Equifax, Inc., No. 24-10147 (11th Cir. July 18, 2025) — have refined Pedro’s standing analysis to require concrete real-world harm beyond a self-inflicted procedural-violation injury. EIS LLC’s litigation counsel routinely cites Pedro and its progeny in FCRA standing motions; FCRA plaintiffs in the Eleventh Circuit must plead concrete dissemination-based harm that meets the post-Nelson standard.

Every published Eleventh Circuit decision addressing FCRA claims against the Equifax family captions the operating-entity defendant as Equifax Information Services LLC — never as Equifax Inc. or as the predecessor Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. designation. The Ninth Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit, and Seventh Circuit FCRA dockets follow the same caption convention: the operating LLC is the named defendant; the parent is not.

The 2017 Equifax Data Breach and Multidistrict Litigation

The 2017 Equifax data breach disclosed in September 2017 affected approximately 147 million U.S. consumers and resulted in the largest consumer data security regulatory action in U.S. history at the time of filing. The consolidated multidistrict litigation, In re: Equifax, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL No. 2800, 1:17-md-2800-TWT (N.D. Ga.), consolidated hundreds of consumer class actions, financial-institution actions, and shareholder derivative actions in the Northern District of Georgia before Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. The 2019 global settlement of up to $700 million — including a $380.5 million Consumer Restitution Fund, up to an additional $125 million for documented out-of-pocket losses, $175 million to state attorneys general, $100 million to the CFPB, and $10 million to the New York Department of Financial Services — received final court approval on January 13, 2020.

The breach-litigation captions named both Equifax Inc. (parent) and Equifax Information Services LLC (operating subsidiary) as co-defendants because the breach implicated both holding-company governance failures and operating-entity data-handling failures. The captioning model reflects the breach-litigation context — not the model for routine FCRA accuracy or reinvestigation matters. Private FCRA litigants filing § 1681e(b) accuracy claims, § 1681i reinvestigation claims, or § 1681g disclosure-scope claims against Equifax should name Equifax Information Services LLC as the sole Equifax defendant — not the parent — and should not import the breach-litigation co-defendant captioning into routine FCRA matters. The breach litigation is a precedent for catastrophic-failure consolidated litigation against the entire Equifax family; it is not a model for the day-to-day FCRA docket.

Active Regulatory Posture: CFPB, FTC, and State AG Coalition

Equifax’s regulatory enforcement posture as of May 2026 reflects a layered framework of federal and multistate oversight. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exercises supervisory authority over EIS LLC as a larger participant in the consumer reporting market under 12 U.S.C. § 5514(a)(1)(B) and the CFPB’s Larger Participant Rule at 12 C.F.R. § 1090.104. The 2017 CFPB consent order against Equifax (File No. 2017-CFPB-0014) imposed a $2.5 million civil money penalty for deceptive credit-score marketing practices. The 2019 FTC and multistate AG coalition settlement related to the data breach imposed additional consumer-protection obligations on EIS LLC and the parent Equifax Inc. In January 2025, the CFPB entered a separate consent order requiring Equifax to pay a $15 million civil penalty for improper investigations of consumer credit reporting disputes — the first new CFPB enforcement action against the credit-bureau side of Equifax’s business since the 2019 breach settlement.

The regulatory captioning model — like the breach-litigation captioning model — reaches both the parent and the operating LLC because regulatory agencies have authority to reach holding-company structures in enforcement contexts that private FCRA litigants do not have. Private FCRA captions should track the circuit-court convention: Equifax Information Services LLC as the sole defendant on file-accuracy, reinvestigation, and disclosure-scope claims. The CFPB’s larger-participant supervisory authority, the FTC’s enforcement authority, and multistate AG coalitions reach the parent on different legal grounds that do not extend to private litigants.

Where to Serve Equifax Information Services LLC

Equifax Information Services LLC operates from a Georgia principal office at 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402, and maintains foreign-LLC qualifications across multiple states under FEIN 58-0209400. The sections below identify verified service addresses for key litigation forums, the operational rules for service at the Atlanta principal office, and the distinction between litigation service of process and consumer-file records requests routed through the EIS records-custodian PO Box.

Verified Multi-Vendor Agent Network

EIS LLC’s registered-agent network spans three Wolters Kluwer–owned vendors: Corporation Service Company (CSC), C T Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall Corporation System. Vendor identity changes by state and historical filing path. The table below lists verified service addresses for ten states based on May 2026 Accurint registered-agent records. For all remaining qualified states, address confirmation via the state Secretary of State portal and the relevant vendor’s public records portal is required before dispatch — vendor identity cannot be inferred from a prior state’s filing path.

State	Authority	Registered Agent & Address
Georgia (state of organization)	O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209	Verify current via Georgia Secretary of State Corporations Division portal before dispatch
New York	CPLR § 311-a (foreign LLC)	C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005-1400 (verified via NY DOS portal pre-dispatch); 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019-6708 (secondary EIS-family address)
Louisiana	La. R.S. 12:1308.1	Corporation Service Company, 450 Laurel Street Floor 8, Baton Rouge, LA 70801-1834 (filing 34140132Q, ACTIVE)
Washington	RCW 25.15.211	C T Corporation System, 711 Capitol Way South Ste 204, Olympia, WA 98501-1267
Ohio	Ohio Civ. R. 4.2(G)	CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service (Corporation Service Company), 50 W Broad Street Ste 1800, Columbus, OH 43215-5910
Massachusetts	Mass. R. Civ. P. 4(d)(2)	Prentice-Hall Corp Sys Inc, 84 State Street, Boston, MA 02109-2202
Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-23	Prentice-Hall Corp System, 170 Westminster Street Ste 900, Providence, RI 02903-2101
North Carolina	N.C. Gen. Stat. § 57D-2-31	Corporation Service Company, 327 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603-1725
Nevada	NRS 86.231	Corporation Service Company, 112 N Curry Street, Carson City, NV 89703-4934
West Virginia	W.Va. Code § 31B-1-111	Corporation Service Company, 808 Greenbrier Street, Charleston, WV 25311-1527

Pre-dispatch agent-status confirmation is required across every state in the network. Multi-vendor coverage means that registered-agent address migrations occur on per-state, per-vendor schedules — Wolters Kluwer’s three sister-company vendors do not synchronize their internal address records, and a state-filing address that was current at the last EIS LLC annual-report cycle may diverge from the vendor’s current internal records by the dispatch date. A pre-dispatch portal lookup at the relevant vendor — the CSC public records portal, the CT Corporation System lookup, or the Prentice-Hall agent-status portal — takes under three minutes per state and catches divergence between the state-filing address and the vendor’s current internal records before the document leaves the office. Captioning to “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.” rather than “Equifax Information Services LLC” produces a parallel pre-dispatch escalation: the captioning is escalated to the ordering attorney for caption update before service rather than dispatched and rejected.

Atlanta Principal Office Service at 1550 Peachtree St NW

EIS LLC’s principal executive office is located at 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402 — co-located with parent Equifax Inc.’s registered office at the same Atlanta tower address. This address appears across all 96 corporation filings under FEIN 58-0209400 as the principal office of EIS LLC and the predecessor ECIS Inc. designation. The general operations phone number at 1550 Peachtree St NW is 404-885-8000. FRCP 4(h)(1)(B) federal service at the Atlanta principal office is permitted, but only with delivery to an officer, managing member, or general agent — not to a reception desk or security desk in the lobby. Calling ahead to confirm an officer or managing member is available at the Atlanta address before dispatch reduces the risk of a non-acceptance return.

State-court service in Georgia under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209 may be made at the Atlanta principal office on the same officer-or-managing-member terms as FRCP 4(h)(1)(B), or at the Georgia registered agent on file with the Georgia Secretary of State. The Georgia SoS portal is the authoritative source for the current registered agent in Georgia matters. State-court service in foreign-qualified states does not authorize service at the Atlanta principal office; the foreign-qualified state’s long-arm or foreign-LLC service statute requires service on the registered agent on file in that state, not on the Georgia principal office. A New York state-court FCRA matter served at 1550 Peachtree St NW Atlanta produces a CPLR § 311-a insufficient-service challenge regardless of how precisely the Atlanta delivery is executed.

Records-Custodian Routing: PO Box 4081 vs. Litigation Service Address

The EIS records-custodian routing address for FCRA records-only subpoenas commanding production of a consumer’s credit file is PO Box 4081, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4081. This PO Box is verified across multiple Accurint records — appearing as the mailing address in California small-claims filings, NYC Department of Finance tax warrants, property records under the EIS-family entities, and Connected Businesses entries dated through April 2026 — as the operational endpoint for EIS records-custodian routing. PO Box 740241, Atlanta, Georgia 30374-0241 also appears as a records-routing variant in older filings; current FCRA records-only subpoena routing should target PO Box 4081 with PO Box 740241 as a fallback if the PO Box 4081 routing produces a return.

Litigation service of process at PO Box 4081 is an error that produces a rejected return. The records-custodian operations team that processes consumer-file pulls is not the litigation service desk and is not authorized to accept service of process on EIS LLC’s behalf. The registered agent in the forum state is the correct address for litigation matters, regardless of the consumer-claim category at issue. The records-custodian PO Box is the operational endpoint for FRCP 45 records-only subpoenas requesting consumer file content by account number, Social Security number, or date of birth — not for any litigation process or for litigation-related subpoenas commanding deposition or document production beyond the consumer’s own credit file.

Scope of Services — What Undisputed Legal Does and Does Not Do

Undisputed Legal delivers legal documents to the designated service target for Equifax Information Services LLC — registered agent, executive officer, managing member, or principal office — per applicable federal or state service rules. Undisputed Legal documents every service event with GPS-verified affidavits including device-coordinate timestamps and photo documentation of the agent-acceptance interaction at the registered-agent professional desk. Undisputed Legal confirms receipt by the designated recipient through return-of-service mechanics and records the agent’s name, role, time, and jurisdiction. For matters where same-day or expedited dispatch matters, Undisputed Legal’s New York office handles New York metro service dispatches directly at (212) 203-8001.

Undisputed Legal does not verify the legal sufficiency of the caption naming Equifax Information Services LLC versus Equifax Inc., the predecessor Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. designation, or another Equifax-family operating subsidiary. Undisputed Legal does not ensure that service complies with the specific procedural requirements of the plaintiff’s chosen forum or circuit. Undisputed Legal does not track statute-of-limitations deadlines, filing deadlines, or matter-management timelines. Undisputed Legal does not classify the underlying claim — whether it arises under § 1681e(b), § 1681i, § 1681g, or a state FCRA analog — or determine which Equifax entity’s conduct gave rise to the claim. Undisputed Legal does not advise on caption strategy, multi-defendant joinder decisions, or class-action coordination.

FCRA matters carry elevated unauthorized-practice-of-law risk because caption decisions and procedural strategy interact directly with Article III standing requirements under Spokeo v. Robins, 578 U.S. 330 (2016), and TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), and with circuit-specific dispute-handling and accuracy precedent. Strategic judgment on those matters cannot be delegated to a process-service vendor. Undisputed Legal provides the operational delivery infrastructure; counsel provides the legal strategy.

How Undisputed Legal Approaches Equifax Information Services LLC Service

Undisputed Legal’s operational approach to Equifax Information Services LLC service reflects direct-dispatch experience with the multi-vendor registered-agent network — Corporation Service Company, C T Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall Corporation System — across the states where EIS LLC holds active foreign-LLC qualifications. Pre-dispatch verification, GPS-documented service events, and caption-update protocols address the specific failure modes that produce rejected returns in FCRA matters against EIS LLC: stale agent addresses across the multi-vendor network, Inc.-vs-LLC caption mismatches, and OCR-degraded captions inherited from prior court filings.

Pre-Dispatch Entity and Caption Verification

Undisputed Legal verifies the Accurint corporate filing record for Equifax Information Services LLC before every dispatch. The protocol confirms three items in sequence: (1) the entity name in the caption matches the current state filing in the forum state — “Equifax Information Services LLC” must appear verbatim in the state SoS record, not as “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.,” “Equifax, Inc.,” or any OCR-degraded variant such as “Equifax Infomation Serivces LLC”; (2) the registered agent in the forum state — CSC, CT Corporation System, or Prentice-Hall Corporation System depending on the state — is confirmed as the active agent as of the dispatch date; and (3) the agent address on the state filing matches the agent vendor’s current internal records via the relevant vendor’s public records portal.

The caption-match check at item (1) catches the Inc.-vs-LLC mismatch and the OCR-degraded variants before dispatch. A caption mismatch identified at the pre-dispatch stage is escalated to the ordering attorney for caption update — not dispatched and returned. The vendor-confirmation check at item (2) is the operationally distinctive step for EIS LLC versus single-vendor matters such as Experian Information Solutions. Multi-vendor coverage means that the vendor identity must be confirmed for each state independently; vendor identity cannot be inferred from a prior state’s filing path or from the parent Equifax Inc.’s agent network.

GPS-Verified Affidavits and Documentation Standards

Every service event on Equifax Information Services LLC is documented with a GPS-verified affidavit that includes device-coordinate timestamps at the moment of delivery, photo documentation of the agent-acceptance interaction at the registered-agent professional desk, and a record of the agent’s acknowledged receipt — name, role, time, and jurisdiction. The affidavit format meets the proof-of-service requirements for federal-court FCRA matters, where the return of service is entered into the CM/ECF docket and subject to challenge by EIS LLC’s litigation counsel. The professional-acceptance protocol at registered-agent desks produces a cleaner service record than direct executive service at 1550 Peachtree St NW Atlanta — the registered agent’s name and role are documented by position rather than by individual officer identification, which eliminates the “wrong officer” challenge that arises from direct executive service at the principal office.

Multi-State FCRA Class Action and MDL Coordination

For nationwide FCRA class actions naming Equifax Information Services LLC as defendant — including matters that may be coordinated with or follow the consolidated breach-related multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of Georgia — Undisputed Legal coordinates simultaneous dispatches across the states where EIS LLC holds active foreign-LLC qualifications. Multi-vendor agent coverage means that 41-state coordination is not a single-vendor pull through one acceptance protocol; it requires per-vendor verification across CSC, CT Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall offices, with state-specific service-statute citations in each return-of-service document. The operational consequence: a class action filed in N.D. Ga. requiring service on EIS LLC plus state-law FCRA-analog service in New York, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Washington, Ohio, and Rhode Island proceeds through a single Undisputed Legal coordinator dispatching to CT Corp at 28 Liberty Street New York; CSC at 450 Laurel Street Baton Rouge; Prentice-Hall at 84 State Street Boston; CT Corp at 711 Capitol Way South Olympia; CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service at 50 W Broad Street Columbus; and Prentice-Hall at 170 Westminster Street Providence. Pre-dispatch entity and caption verification in each forum state precedes every dispatch in that state.

Common Pitfalls in Serving Equifax Information Services LLC

PITFALL 1: Naming “Equifax, Inc.” or the Parent on FCRA File-Accuracy Claims. The most common caption error in FCRA matters against the Equifax family is naming Equifax Inc. as the defendant on a § 1681e(b) accuracy claim or a § 1681i reinvestigation claim. Equifax Inc. is the publicly traded parent (NYSE: EFX, FEIN 58-0401110) and holds no consumer credit files. The duty to maintain reasonable procedures for accuracy under § 1681e(b) and the reinvestigation duty under § 1681i attach to the consumer reporting agency that maintains the file — Equifax Information Services LLC, not the parent. A complaint that names Equifax Inc. on a file-accuracy or reinvestigation claim faces a Rule 12(b)(6) failure-to-state-a-claim posture before the matter reaches the merits. Correcting the caption to Equifax Information Services LLC resolves the issue before the threshold motion is filed.

PITFALL 2: Naming the Predecessor Inc. Designation. Captions naming “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.” reach the same legal person as captions naming “Equifax Information Services LLC” — both share FEIN 58-0209400 because the LLC is the converted form of the predecessor Inc. — but the current operative state-filing record is the LLC. Service captioned to the Inc. predecessor at the LLC’s current registered agent generates an agent-acceptance ambiguity that EIS LLC’s counsel may exploit on a Rule 12(b)(5) motion. The caption-update path before service is operationally cleaner than the caption-correction path after a rejected return.

PITFALL 3: Service at 1550 Peachtree St NW for State-Court Foreign-Forum Matters. 1550 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2402 is EIS LLC’s principal executive office and is permitted for FRCP 4(h)(1)(B) federal service when delivery is to an officer or managing member. It is not authorized for state-court service in foreign-qualified states. New York state-court FCRA service under CPLR § 311-a, Massachusetts state-court service under Mass. R. Civ. P. 4(d)(2), and equivalent foreign-LLC service statutes in other states require service on the registered agent on file in that state — not on the Atlanta principal office. A New York state-court matter served at 1550 Peachtree St NW Atlanta produces a CPLR § 311-a insufficient-service challenge regardless of how precisely the Atlanta delivery is executed.

PITFALL 4: Subpoena Routing Confusion — PO Box 4081 vs. Registered Agent. Two subpoena routing errors produce rejected returns in EIS LLC matters. The first: routing a records-only FRCP 45 subpoena commanding production of a consumer credit file to the registered agent rather than to PO Box 4081, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4081. The registered agent is the correct recipient for litigation process and litigation-related subpoenas commanding corporate-representative depositions or document productions beyond the consumer’s own credit file; it is not the operational routing point for records-only consumer file production requests. A records-only subpoena delivered to the registered agent reaches the wrong internal team and adds processing delay while the agent routes it to the records-custodian group. The second error: routing a litigation subpoena commanding a deposition or document production to PO Box 4081 rather than to the registered agent. The records-custodian operations team that receives PO Box 4081 mail is not authorized to route litigation process to EIS LLC’s legal department.

PITFALL 5: Stale Multi-Vendor Agent Addresses. The three Wolters Kluwer–owned vendors that hold EIS LLC registered-agent designations across the multi-state network — CSC, CT Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall Corporation System — do not synchronize their internal address records. A process server who pulls EIS LLC’s registered-agent address from the state SoS filing without cross-referencing the vendor’s current internal records may dispatch to a location that the vendor has vacated. The resulting rejected return requires a re-dispatch sequence and may implicate statute-of-limitations consequences in matters filed close to the FCRA’s two-year discovery limitation under § 1681p. The pre-dispatch vendor-portal lookup — under three minutes — returns the vendor’s current active address for EIS LLC in the forum state and catches any divergence from the state-filing address before dispatch.

PITFALL 6: Operating Subsidiary Mismatch. Equifax Information Services LLC is the correct FCRA defendant for matters arising from consumer credit-file maintenance, accuracy, reinvestigation, and disclosure under 15 U.S.C. § 1681. It is not the correct defendant for matters arising from Equifax’s employment-data operations through “The Work Number” — those reach Equifax Workforce Solutions, Inc. (formerly TALX Corporation). It is not the correct defendant for direct-to-consumer credit monitoring, identity-protection, or myEquifax-portal disputes — those reach Equifax Consumer Services LLC. A complaint naming EIS LLC for conduct that arose from Equifax Workforce Solutions’s employment-verification reporting faces a Rule 12(b)(6) motion for failure to state a claim against EIS LLC — the named defendant did not engage in the alleged conduct, and service on EIS LLC however precisely executed does not cure a complaint that identifies the wrong Equifax entity as the liable party. Pre-filing matter classification is the mechanism that prevents this error: identifying which Equifax entity operated the system, maintained the file, or furnished the data that gave rise to the claim determines the correct defendant.

Why Undisputed Legal for Equifax Information Services LLC Service

Multi-Vendor Direct-Dispatch Network

Undisputed Legal maintains direct-dispatch relationships with Corporation Service Company, C T Corporation System, and Prentice-Hall Corporation System offices across the states where Equifax Information Services LLC holds active foreign-LLC qualifications. For single-forum FCRA matters, Undisputed Legal dispatches to the registered-agent office in the forum state after completing the three-step pre-dispatch verification protocol. For nationwide FCRA class actions and matters coordinated with the consolidated breach-related multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of Georgia, Undisputed Legal functions as a single coordination point: one matter coordinator, one pre-dispatch verification chain per forum state, one unified return-of-service documentation package formatted for CM/ECF docketing.

The operational consequence for multi-jurisdiction matters: a class action requiring service on EIS LLC plus state-law FCRA-analog service in New York, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Washington, Ohio, and Rhode Island proceeds through synchronized dispatches to CT Corp at 28 Liberty Street New York, CSC at 450 Laurel Street Baton Rouge, Prentice-Hall at 84 State Street Boston, CT Corp at 711 Capitol Way South Olympia, CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service at 50 W Broad Street Columbus, and Prentice-Hall at 170 Westminster Street Providence. No per-state vendor onboarding, no hand-off delays between jurisdictions, and no divergence in documentation standards across the concurrent service events.

Pre-Dispatch Verification Protocol

Undisputed Legal applies a three-step pre-dispatch verification protocol before every EIS LLC service event. Step one is the caption-match check: the entity name in the caption is verified against the current state filing in the forum state via the state Secretary of State portal. A caption naming “Equifax, Inc.,” “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.,” or any OCR-degraded variant is escalated to the ordering attorney before dispatch — not dispatched and returned. Step two is active registered-agent confirmation: the active-agent vendor for EIS LLC in the forum state — CSC, CT Corporation System, or Prentice-Hall Corporation System — is confirmed via the state SoS portal and the relevant vendor’s public records portal. Step three is the address divergence check: the agent address on the state filing is cross-referenced against the vendor’s current internal records to catch any migration since the last state-filing amendment.

The three-step protocol eliminates the EIS LLC service failure modes with the highest rejection frequency: caption defects naming the parent or the predecessor Inc. (Pitfalls 1 and 2), state-court foreign-forum service at the Atlanta principal office (Pitfall 3), and stale multi-vendor agent addresses (Pitfall 5). A dispatch that passes all three steps proceeds to the registered-agent office with a confirmed agent address and a matching caption. A dispatch that fails any step proceeds to the ordering attorney with a specific identification of the failure point.

Pricing for Equifax Information Services LLC Matters

Service rates for Equifax Information Services LLC matters: New York metropolitan market (Tier 1) — routine $100–$150; priority $200–$250; expedited $250–$300; same-day $325–$425; affidavit-only $75. All other markets including the Northern District of Georgia at Atlanta (Tier 2) — routine $150–$250; priority $250–$350; expedited $300–$400; same-day $425–$525; affidavit-only $75. First service attempt on Equifax Information Services LLC occurs within 3–7 business days of dispatch authorization for routine tier matters, with same-day and expedited tiers available for FCRA matters with imminent statute-of-limitations considerations under 15 U.S.C. § 1681p.

Frequently Asked Questions — Serving Equifax Information Services LLC

Who is the correct defendant — “Equifax, Inc.” or Equifax Information Services LLC?

Equifax Information Services LLC is the correct defendant for FCRA matters arising from consumer credit-file maintenance, accuracy, reinvestigation, and disclosure under 15 U.S.C. § 1681. Equifax Inc. is the publicly traded parent (NYSE: EFX) and holds no consumer credit files; the parent is the wrong defendant on file-accuracy or reinvestigation claims. Every published Eleventh Circuit and Ninth Circuit decision addressing FCRA claims against the Equifax family captions the operating-entity defendant as Equifax Information Services LLC.

What about “Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.” — is that the same entity?

Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. is the predecessor Inc. designation that converted to LLC form. Both entities share FEIN 58-0209400 because the LLC is the legal-form-converted continuation of the Inc. — same legal person, same Atlanta principal office, same role as consumer-file maintainer. The current operative state-filing record is the LLC. Captions naming the predecessor Inc. designation are pleadable but produce agent-acceptance ambiguity at service; caption-update to “Equifax Information Services LLC” before dispatch is operationally cleaner.

Where is the correct service address for FCRA matters filed in New York?

For New York Supreme Court matters under CPLR § 311-a and for federal FCRA matters in the Eastern District of New York or Southern District of New York under FRCP 4(h)(1)(B), the verified service address is C T Corporation System at 28 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10005-1400. A second EIS-family CT Corporation System address — 1633 Broadway, New York, New York 10019-6708 — also appears in May 2026 Accurint records. Pre-dispatch agent-status confirmation via the New York Department of State Business Entity Database and the CT Corporation System public records portal is required to identify which Manhattan address holds EIS LLC’s current New York foreign-LLC registration.

What is the difference between subpoena service for records and litigation service?

FRCP 45 records-only subpoenas commanding production of a consumer’s credit file go to the EIS records-custodian PO Box: PO Box 4081, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4081. Litigation subpoenas commanding a deposition or document production beyond the consumer’s own credit file go to the registered agent in the forum state — the same address as litigation service of process. A records-only subpoena delivered to the registered agent adds internal routing delay; a litigation subpoena delivered to PO Box 4081 reaches the records-custodian team rather than the litigation service desk, generating a failure-to-appear or failure-to-produce result.

Should I join Equifax Inc. as a co-defendant in a private FCRA action?

No, on file-accuracy and reinvestigation claims. Equifax Inc. holds no consumer credit files; the duty to maintain accurate files attaches to Equifax Information Services LLC, not to the parent. Federal courts addressing FCRA claims against the Equifax family have consistently dismissed § 1681e(b) and § 1681i claims against Equifax Inc. for failure to state a claim. The 2017–2019 multidistrict breach litigation captioned both the parent and the operating LLC because the breach implicated holding-company governance failures alongside operating-entity data-handling failures — that captioning is not a model for routine FCRA matters.

What if my matter involves Equifax’s employment-data operations?

Employment-data matters — including disputes over information furnished through “The Work Number” employment and income database — name Equifax Workforce Solutions, Inc. (formerly TALX Corporation) as the correct defendant, not Equifax Information Services LLC. EIS LLC maintains consumer credit files under the FCRA; Equifax Workforce Solutions handles employment-verification reporting under separate operational and regulatory frameworks. The caption-controls-service doctrine applies across the Equifax family: the correct defendant is the entity whose systems and operations gave rise to the conduct alleged.

Does Undisputed Legal coordinate nationwide FCRA class action service against EIS LLC?

Yes. Undisputed Legal coordinates simultaneous dispatches across the states where EIS LLC holds active foreign-LLC qualifications through the multi-vendor registered-agent network. The same pre-dispatch verification protocol applies in each state, with state-specific agent vendors (CSC, CT Corporation System, or Prentice-Hall) and state-specific service-statute citations on each return-of-service. For FCRA class actions filed in the Northern District of Georgia at Atlanta — the venue of the consolidated breach-related multidistrict litigation — or in any other federal district, Undisputed Legal provides unified dispatch coordination, GPS-verified documentation, and CM/ECF-ready return-of-service handling across all forum states.

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