Feb 20, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Employment & Technology Archive
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware of the following Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class action lawsuit filing:
Insurance Services For You Inc.
Class action lawsuit filed on February 19, 2020 in United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, against Insurance Services For You Inc. in order to “stop [Insurance Services For You’s] practice of sending unauthorized and unwanted fax advertisements.” According to the complaint, Insurance Services For You, “[i]n an attempt to generate sales leads, and ultimately increase its revenues, . . . created a fax-based marketing campaign wherein it sent numerous unsolicited faxes advertising its products and services across the country.” The fax advertisements, allegedly, were sent, even though Insurance Services For You did not have a prior relationship or the consent of the fax recipients to receive fax advertisements.
According to the complaint, Insurance Services For You sent unsolicited fax advertisements to the Plaintiff from telephone number (855) 227-5516 which “promoted health insurance plans,” despite Plaintiff neither having a previous business relationship with Insurance Services For You nor the Plaintiff’s consent to receive fax advertisements.
Do You Believe You Are a Victim of Illegal Robocalls, Text Messages, “Junk” Faxes or Telemarketing Sales Calls?
If you have received illegal robocalls, text messages, “junk” faxes or telemarketing sales calls, you may be able to recover at least $500 for each illegal call, text or fax you received and, possibly, as much as $1,500 for each illegal call, text message or facsimile that was made either willfully or knowingly in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
To help evaluate your potential legal claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, please complete KLF’s confidential Robocall Questionnaire or, if you prefer to speak with an attorney, please complete the form above on the right, e-mail [email protected] or contact Michael Yarnoff, Esq., [email protected], (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, for a free, no-obligation evaluation of your potential legal rights.
Feb 20, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Employment & Technology Archive
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware of the following Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class action lawsuit filing:
VidaCann, LLC
Class action lawsuit filed on February 19, 2020 in United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, “for legal and equitable remedies resulting from the [alleged] illegal actions of VidaCann, LLC in sending automated text message advertisements to [Plaintiff’s] cellular telephone and the cellular telephones of numerous other individuals across the country, in clear violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.”
According to the class action complaint, “[n]on-party ActiveCampaign, Inc. is a marketing company that specializes in e-mail and SMS text-message marketing to consumers.” Allegedly, non-party ActiveCampaign “initiated and transmitted the SMS text messages at issue in [the class action lawsuit] to Plaintiff and members of the proposed Class on behalf of VidaCann, LLC, “a medical marijuana company based in Jacksonville, Florida.”
VidaCann, according to the complaint, “transmitted, by itself or through an intermediary or intermediaries, multiple text messages” to the cellular telephone used by the Plaintiff. The complaint alleges that “[a]ll of the subject text messages received by Plaintiff and the members of the putative Class were transmitted by or on behalf of Defendant, including by ActiveCampaign, Inc. on Defendant’s behalf, without the requisite prior “express written consent” of Plaintiff or any member of the putative Class.”
According to the complaint, “[e]ach unsolicited text message sent by or on behalf of [VidaCann] to Plaintiff’s [cellular telephone] originated from the telephone number (833) 223-3820, which is a dedicated telephone number leased or owned by or on behalf of ActiveCampaign, Inc. or [VidaCann] that [VidaCann] uses to transmit text messages to consumers en masse, in an automated fashion and without human intervention.”
The complaint contained the following example of a text message, allegedly, sent to the Plaintiff’s cell phone:
VidaCann: Our delivery special is extended! Click the link for this
great deal. Reply STOP VIDACANN to cancel https://erll.co/gB9qlsFXXVg9
Do You Believe You Are a Victim of Illegal Robocalls, Text Messages, “Junk” Faxes or Telemarketing Sales Calls?
If you have received illegal robocalls, text messages, “junk” faxes or telemarketing sales calls, you may be able to recover at least $500 for each illegal call, text or fax you received and, possibly, as much as $1,500 for each illegal call, text message or facsimile that was made either willfully or knowingly in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
To help evaluate your potential legal claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, please complete KLF’s confidential Robocall Questionnaire or, if you prefer to speak with an attorney, please complete the form above on the right, e-mail [email protected] or contact Michael Yarnoff, Esq., [email protected], (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, for a free, no-obligation evaluation of your potential legal rights.
Feb 20, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Employment & Technology Archive
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that on February 20, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is sending refund checks totaling more than $34 million to consumers who, allegedly, were tricked by Office Depot, Inc. and a software provider into buying computer repair products and services.
According to the FTC, Office Depot paid $25 million while its software supplier, Support.com, Inc., paid $10 million as part of 2019 settlements with the FTC. The FTC alleged that Office Depot and Support.com configured a virus scanning program to report that it found symptoms of malware or infections—even when that was not true—whenever consumers answered “yes” to at least one of four “diagnostic” questions. The false scan results were, according to the FTC, then used to persuade consumers to purchase computer repair and technical services that could cost hundreds of dollars.
The FTC announced that it is sending out 541,247 checks averaging $63.35 per check. Recipients, according to the FTC, should deposit or cash checks within 60 days, as indicated on the check. The FTC never requires people to pay money or provide account information to cash a refund check. If recipients have questions about the refunds, they should contact the FTC’s refund administrator, Epiq, at (855) 915-0916.
The FTC advised that its new interactive dashboards for refund data provide a state-by-state breakdown of the Office Depot refunds, as well as refund programs from other FTC cases.
Source: FTC.gov
Feb 20, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Employment & Technology Archive
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware of the following Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class action lawsuit filing:
Wavve Marketing and The Federal Savings Bank
Class action lawsuit filed on February 19, 2020 in United States District Court for the Central District of California against Wavve Marketing Group and The Federal Savings Bank for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”).
According to the complaint, “Wavve Marketing Group is a Maryland corporation hired by Federal Savings that makes automated telemarketing calls, such as those made to the Plaintiff.” Allegedly, the Plaintiff “received at least seven automated telemarketing calls from Wavve on behalf of Federal Savings.” The Plaintiff’s caller ID reflected telephone number (818) 740-6932.
According to the complaint, “[d]uring at least one of the . . . calls[,] the Plaintiff asked to no longer be contacted,” and, allegedly, “the Plaintiff’s number was not added to Wavve’s Do Not Call list.” Additionally, the complaint states that “Wavve was contractually required to promote Federal Savings products on their telemarketing calls in order to potentiall generate new customers”; “Federal Savings knew that Wavve was making automated telemarketing calls”; and “Federal Savings was knowingly and actively accepting the business that originated through the [alleged] illegal telemarketing calls.”
Do You Believe You Are a Victim of Illegal Robocalls, Text Messages, “Junk” Faxes or Telemarketing Sales Calls?
If you have received illegal robocalls, text messages, “junk” faxes or telemarketing sales calls, you may be able to recover at least $500 for each illegal call, text or fax you received and, possibly, as much as $1,500 for each illegal call, text message or facsimile that was made either willfully or knowingly in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
To help evaluate your potential legal claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, please complete KLF’s confidential Robocall Questionnaire or, if you prefer to speak with an attorney, please complete the form above on the right, e-mail [email protected] or contact Michael Yarnoff, Esq., [email protected], (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, for a free, no-obligation evaluation of your potential legal rights.
Feb 20, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Employment & Technology Archive
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware of the following Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class action lawsuit filings:
My Home Group Real Estate, LLC
Class action lawsuit filed on February 19, 2020 in United States District Court for the District of Arizona against My Home Group Real Estate, LLC “to stop My Home Group from [allegedly] directing, or at the very least ratifying, My Home Group’s realtors’ violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (‘TCPA’).” According to the class action complaint, “. . . at My Home Group’s direction and/or with My Home Group’s knowledge and for My Home Group’s benefit, My Home Group realtors purchase lead[] lists for real estate listings and autodialers with the ability to deliver prerecorded voice messages specifically marketed to the real estate industry to solicit real estate listings from consumers without the consumers’ consent.”
The complaint states that the Plaintiff had a property he owned removed from the real estate Multiple Listing Service, and “just 2 days after [Plaintiff] had the listing removed, he received a prerecorded voice call from a My Home Group realtor.” The telephone number which called Plaintiff was (480) 712-9135, which, allegedly, belongs to a My Home Group realtor. Plaintiff, according to the complaint, “has never provided his consent to My Home Group or any of its realtors to be called.”
Secure Lending Incorporated
Class action lawsuit filed on February 19, 2020 in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, against Secure Lending Incorporated “pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act” for, allegedly, initiat[ing] autodialed telemarketing calls that utilized artificial or prerecorded voice messages to cellular phones, including Plaintiff’s cellular phone, without the prior express written consent of Plaintiff or the other members of the Class and in violation of the TCPA.”
According to the complaint, Secure Lending Incorporated “initiated unauthorized telephone solicitations to the cellular phones of Plaintiff and other members of the Class” to, allegedly, “advertise the availability of [Secure Lending Incorporated’s] loan products,” as well as to “encourage Plaintiff and other members of the Class to apply for loan products” and “obtain applications for loan products offered by [Secure Lending Incorporated] from Plaintiff and other members of the Class.”
Do You Believe You Are a Victim of Illegal Robocalls, Text Messages, “Junk” Faxes or Telemarketing Sales Calls?
If you have received illegal robocalls, text messages, “junk” faxes or telemarketing sales calls, you may be able to recover at least $500 for each illegal call, text or fax you received and, possibly, as much as $1,500 for each illegal call, text message or facsimile that was made either willfully or knowingly in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
To help evaluate your potential legal claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, please complete KLF’s confidential Robocall Questionnaire or, if you prefer to speak with an attorney, please complete the form above on the right, e-mail [email protected] or contact Michael Yarnoff, Esq., [email protected], (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, for a free, no-obligation evaluation of your potential legal rights.
Feb 20, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Employment & Technology Archive
Reportedly, Personal Details of 10,683,188 Former MGM Resorts Hotel Guests Published on Hacking Forum
On February 19, 2020, ZDNet.com reported (“Exclusive: Details of 10.6 million MGM hotel guests posted on a hacking forum“) that “[t]he personal details of more than 10.6 million users who stayed at MGM Resorts Hotels have been published on a hacking forum this week.” ZDNet.com reported that its analysis determined that “the MGM data dump . . . contains personal details for 10,683,188 former hotel guests.” Reportedly, “[i]ncluded in the leaked files are personal details such as full names, home addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth.”
On February 19, 2020, NBCnews.com reported (“MGM hack exposes data of 10 million, including government officials“) that “[t]he information of more than 10 million people who stayed at MGM Resorts, including data appearing to belong to government officials, was posted on a hacking forum this week.” Further, NBC News reported that “[n]o financial data were included in the dataset, which has been reviewed by NBC News. But it includes full names, birthdates, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers. The information was posted to the hacking forum Monday.”
Have You Been Impacted by A Data Breach?
If so, please either contact Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. Partner Michael Yarnoff, Esq., (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, [email protected], complete the form on the right or send an e-mail to [email protected] for a free, no-obligation case evaluation of your facts to determine whether your privacy rights have been violated and whether there is a basis for a data privacy class action.
Examples of the type of relief sought by data privacy class actions, include, but are not limited to, reimbursement of identity theft losses and of out-of-pocket costs paid by data breach victims for protective measures such as credit monitoring services, credit reports, and credit freezes; compensation for time spent responding to the breach; imposition of credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance, paid for by the defendant company; and improvements to the defendant company’s data security systems.
Data privacy class actions are brought on a contingent-fee basis; thus, plaintiffs and the class members do not pay out-of-pocket attorney’s fees or litigation costs. Subject to court approval, attorney’s fees and litigation costs are derived from the recovery obtained for the class.
