Plaintiff Alleges Receiving 6 Calls to Number Listed on Do Not Call Registry
New England Health Group made telemarketing calls to residential numbers listed on the national do not call registry in violation of the prohibitions in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Kristy Beckwith alleged in a class action Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-12689) in…
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U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. Beckwith listed her number on the DNC registry July 25, yet she received at least six telemarketing calls from New England Health Group throughout the months of July, August and September, said her complaint. All the calls were from the same caller ID, 605-608-8724, and the ones Beckwith answered “all followed a similar telemarketing script” in promoting New England Health Group’s insurance plans, it said. Beckwith and the other call recipients “were harmed by these calls,” said her class action. “They were temporarily deprived of legitimate use of their phones because the phone line was tied up during the telemarketing calls and their privacy was improperly invaded,” it said. The calls injured Beckwith and the other call recipients “because they were frustrating, obnoxious, annoying” and were “a nuisance,” it said. The calls also “destroyed” the recipients’ “solitude,” it said.