Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing six defunct used car dealerships that reportedly failed to provide vehicle titles to dozens of consumers.
In each of the lawsuits – filed in the common pleas courts of Butler, Fairfield, Fayette, Licking, Stark and Wood counties – an auto dealership and its operator are accused of violating Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act and the Certificate of Motor Vehicles Act.
In Wood County, John Stauffer and his Perrysburg dealership, Prestige Family Cars, are named in this lawsuit. Yost’s office has resolved three title-related complaints with $6,883 from the TDR fund.
To help consumers with title problems who bought used cars from the defendants, Yost’s Consumer Protection Section has issued payments totaling $312,690 from the Title Defect Rescission (TDR) fund. The TDR fund aids consumers who do not receive titles within 40 days of a vehicle purchase, as Ohio law requires.
