Tag Archives: TCPA

The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld a lower court’s ruling granting summary judgment in favor of an insurance company that did not cover a client that was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. A copy of the ruling in American Family Mutual Insurance Company …

A student loan servicer has won summary judgment after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using an automated telephone dialing system to contact the plaintiff. A copy of the ruling in Collins v. National Student Loan Program can be accessed by clicking here. During the …

While higher than in April, the overall number of lawsuits filed against collection agencies in May alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act continued their year-long decline, according to data released yesterday by WebRecon. Through the first …

A federal judge in the Southern District of Indiana has denied a summary judgment motion from a defendant after it was sued for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by contacting the nanny of an account holder using an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS) in an attempt to collect …

Aaron’s, a lease-to-own retail company, has had a class-action lawsuit filed against it for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by contacting individuals believed to be debtors using an automated telephone dialing system. While a TCPA class-action in and of itself is not a man-bites-dog type of story, it …

Eric Troutman from Womble Bond Dickinson has an interesting summary of a case from the District Court for the Western District of New York in which Navient Solutions was granted summary judgment after being sued for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. What makes the case interesting, Troutman points …

Companion bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate aimed at expanding the definition of automated telephone dialing systems to include platforms that make calls from numbers stored on a list, as well as those that use random or sequential number generators. Sen. Edward Markey [D-Mass.] …

ACA International wants the Federal Communications Commission to adjust its priorities and instead focus on dealing with “onerous” Telephone Consumer Protection Act interpretations before tackling its proposed database of reassigned phone numbers. ACA International asserted its position in a comment filed with the FCC regarding a notice of proposed rulemaking …

A woman from Florida has filed a lawsuit against ADT Corp., alleging the company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act by making debt collection calls to her mobile phone without first obtaining her consent. The suit was filed in the District Court for the …

In what might be a first, all of the data points tracked by WebRecon were lower in April than they were in March, including the number of complaints filed with the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, the number of complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau, and the number of …