Pro Se Plaintiff Alleges Allstate Hounded Her With 17 Phone Solicitations
Allstate removed to U.S. District Court for Northern West Virginia in Wheeling Friday a Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint (docket 5:23-cv-00331) Diana Mey filed Sept. 29 in an Ohio County, West Virginia, state court in which the pro se plaintiff…
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alleges the insurer hounded her with at least 17 solicitation calls to her residential cellphone between October 2019 and October 2020. Mey never gave Allstate or its agents “express written consent” to call her, “nor does she have an established business relationship with any of them,” said her complaint. Mey “was harmed by these calls,” it said. She was “temporarily deprived of legitimate use” of her phone, and her privacy “was improperly invaded,” it said. The calls also injured Mey “because they were frustrating, annoying, were a nuisance” and disturbed her “solitude,” it said. Court records since June 2019 show roughly two dozen suits in federal court against Allstate for alleged TCPA violations.