Insurance Firm Unlawfully Calls Numbers on National DNC List: Class Action
Northeastern Health Group, a health insurance company, made telemarketing calls to residential phone numbers listed on the national do not call registry, in prohibition of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, alleged Kristy Beckwith’s class action Thursday (docket 0:23-cv-62387) in U.S.…
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District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale. Beckwith never consented to receive the telemarketing calls, said her complaint. Because telemarketing campaigns “generally place calls to hundreds of thousands or even millions of potential customers en masse,” Beckwith filed her complaint on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of other persons who received illegal telemarketing calls from or on behalf of the defendant, it said. Beckwith estimates she received at least six telemarketing calls to her number, which was listed on the national DNC registry since late July, it said. Beckwith and the other call recipients “were harmed by these calls,” it said. 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, were a nuisance and disturbed the solitude of plaintiff and the class,” it said.