Class Action Seeks to Halt LifeMD’s ‘Barrage’ of Illegal Text Messages
Telehealth company Life MD contributed to the national “barrage” of phone spam by initiating more than 100 illegal text messages to the residential cellphone of plaintiff Shannan Davis, alleged her Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Thursday (docket 8:23-cv-02138) in…
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U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa. “Davis wants this telephone spam to stop,” said her complaint. “Others do as well,” it said: “LifeMD has been sued other times for telephone spam, but that has not gotten LifeMD to stop spamming illegally.” Court records show Davis’ TCPA complaint is the third against LifeMD filed since Jan. 23. The Lakeland, Florida, resident alleges her home, phone and privacy “have been invaded by LifeMD’s non-emergency text messages,” said her complaint. The text messages solicited products, offered deals and discounts, “and even offered gifts for patronage,” it said. Davis replied “stop” at least twice since November, and immediately received a confirmation SMS saying she had been unsubscribed and would no longer receive messages, it said: “But LifeMD ignored the stop requests and continued to spam Davis with more text messages.” The court should award Davis and her class members $1,500 in statutory damages for each TCPA violation “because the violations were knowing and willful,” said her complaint. It should also enjoin LifeMD from future violations, it said.