TCPA Plaintiff Seeks Treble Damages for Bank’s 'Harassing' Debt Collection Calls
Defendant Bank of the West removed to U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles Wednesday an Aug. 4 state court complaint (docket 2:23-cv-07365) in which plaintiff Renata King alleges the bank hounded her with “numerous harassing calls” using…
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an automatic telephone dialing system to collect a debt. The bank “made enough calls to be considered harassment,” causing King “high levels of stress,” said her complaint, alleging violations of California’s Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. She told the bank to stop calling her, but still the calls continued, it said. Due to the bank’s wrongdoing, King “continues to suffer injury” to her feelings, plus “personal humiliation, embarrassment, mental anguish and emotional distress,” it said. She seeks a jury trial, plus treble damages of $1,500 per violation for the bank’s willful and knowing TCPA misconduct.