Hertz Customers Have Been Wrongfully Arrested For "Stolen" Vehicles They Actually Rented.😮 Car rental company Hertz faces a lawsuit from over 100 customers who claim that police arrested them after the company falsely reported the rented vehicles as stolen. Hertz filed for bankruptcy in 2020 following significant losses due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the company’s problems have compounded with some 165 claims related to the arrests. 

The customers claim that they had legal and appropriate rental contracts, but in each case ended up in trouble with police who told them the vehicle had been reported stolen. The first reports of customers facing accusations of theft for their rented vehicle surfaced in August 2020 when Philadelphia-area attorney Francis Alexander Malofiy took up the case on behalf of dozens of claimants, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.