Plaintiff Alleges Insurer Phoned Her at Least 17 Times Since Dec. 11
United Insurance Professionals, which sells policies on behalf of several insurance companies, made multiple telemarketing calls to residential phone numbers, despite their presence on the national do not call registry, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, alleged Kelly…
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Pinn’s class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00127) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus. Pinn, a Texas resident, never consented to receive the calls, said the complaint. Her number has been listed on the registry since February 2009, yet United phoned her at least 17 times since Dec. 11 to sell her final expense insurance, and did so using various illegally spoofed caller ID numbers, it said. Pinn’s cellphone number is used for residential purposes and isn’t associated with a business, nor is it associated with a phone service sold for business use, it said. Pinn and members of the class have been harmed “because their privacy has been violated, they were annoyed and harassed, and, in some instances, they may have been charged for incoming calls,” it said. The calls also occupied their cellphone lines, “rendering them unavailable for legitimate communication,” it said.