Months later, she was pulled over for wearing a seatbelt incorrectly when police informed her she had a warrant for her arrest she was jailed for more than 30 days, she said in a lawsuit.Īnother customer in Florida extended her Hertz rental four times - but the car was reported stolen before the end of the extension period in spite of text message communications with a Hertz employee confirming her plans to return it, court records show. One Hertz customer was driving her rental car in Chicago when she got a flat tire, and she called Hertz to have the car towed, court records state. In lawsuits and in press reports, stories of false accusations revealed lapses in Hertz's rental records and theft policies that led to the errors. Of the company's 25 million rental transactions, 0.014% are reported stolen each year, or about 3,500, the company has said.īut some of those reports have been proven to be false. Business Tesla's market value hits $1 trillion after Hertz agrees to buy 100,000 of its cars