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Claim Up To $101 JPMorgan Chase Unwanted Robocalls Class Action Settlement

Who is a Class Member

You are included in the JPMorgan Chase Unwanted Robocalls class action settlement “if JPMC or any affiliate or agent acting on its behalf, made one or more telephone calls to your cellular telephone through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system or a prerecorded or artificial voice between April 20, 2012, through March 16, 2018, regarding a mortgage or home equity line of credit account and, prior to being called, you orally requested not to be called.”

If you don’t qualify for this settlement, check out our database of other class action settlements you may be eligible for.

Settlement Amount

  • $2,250,000.00

Estimated Award

  • $5 to $101, depending on the number of valid claims submitted

Your exact payment will depend on how many Settlement Class members submit valid Claim Forms.

“Class counsel estimates that the amount of the settlement award, which is dependent upon the number of claims, to be approximately $101, but may be within the range of $101 (if 5% of the Settlement Class Members submit a claim) to $5 (if every estimated Settlement Class Member submits a claim).”

Proof of Purchase

  • You will need to provide a W-9 form in addition to your Claim Form.

Claim Form

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JPMorgan Chase Unwanted Robocalls Settlement Notes

  • Barrow et al., v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  • Case No. 1:16-cv-03577
  • Pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

In March 2017, plaintiffs Tomeka Barrow and Anthony Diaz filed this class action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank over allegations the company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by placing unwanted robocalls to consumers’ cell phones.

Reportedly, these unwanted robocalls were made using an automatic telephone dialing system regarding a mortgage of home equity line of credit. Both plaintiffs contend that not only did the not provide prior express consent to receive these calls, they verbally revoke any consent that Chase may have had to place these calls on multiple occasions. Still, they continued to received these unwanted robocalls.

Under the TCPA, making and/or initiating telephone calls using an automatic telephone dialing system to any cell phone number is prohibited. Companies who violated the TCPA can face hefty fines, upwards of $1,500 per willful violation.

JPMorgan Chase denies the allegations and that it violated any law. Complete details about the case and settlement are provided on the JPMorgan Chase Unwanted Robocalls settlement website.

Class members who wish to object to or exclude themselves from the JPMorgan Chase Unwanted Robocalls Settlement must do so by August 13, 2018. Class members who wish to participate in the settlement must submit a claim form on or before August 13, 2018.

Important Dates

  • 8/13/18: Claim Form Deadline
  • 8/13/18: Objection or Exclusion Deadline
  • 11/1/18: Final Hearing at 2:30 pm ET* (class members do not need to attend this hearing in order to receive a slice of the settlement pie).

*Settlement Class Members who wish to speak at the hearing should check www.BarrowTCPASettlement.com to confirm that the date or time of the Hearing has not been changed.

Contact Information

  • Mail: Barrow v. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Settlement Administrator – Kurtzman Carson Consultants, P.O. Box 404058, Louisville, KY 40233-4058
  • Phone: 1-855-201-2636

Class Counsel

Settlement Website

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Claim $85 A&B Insurance and Financial TCPA Class Action Settlement

Who is a Class Member

You are included in the A&B Insurance and Financial TCPA Class Action Settlement “if between August 18, 2012 and April 26, 2017, a third party call center hired by A&B Insurance initiated to your telephone number either:

  • more than one telemarketing call within any twelve-month period to a telephone number registered on the Do Not Call Registry for at least 31 days; or
  • any telephone calls to a cellular telephone number using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice.”

If you don’t qualify for this settlement, check out our database of other class action settlements you may be eligible for.

Settlement Amount

  • $4,250,000.00

Estimated Award

  • $85 (estimated)

Your exact payment will depend on how many Settlement Class members submit Claim Forms.

Proof of Purchase

  • Your phone must match the Settlement Administrator’s records. You can check to see if your phone number qualifies here.

Claim Form

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A&B Insurance and Financial TCPA Settlement Notes

  • Youngman and Allen v. A&B Insurance and Financial Inc.
  • Case No. 6:16-cv-01478-CEM-GJK
  • Pending in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florid

Plaintiffs Jim Youngman and Robert Allen filed this class action lawsuit alleging A&B Insurance and Financial violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by placing multiple telemarketing calls to numbers registered on the National Do Not Call Registry and made prerecorded calls via an automatic telephone dialing system to cell phones.

A person whose number is on the National Do Not Call Registry, and who has received more than one telephone call within any twelve-month period by or on behalf of the same entity in violation of the TCPA, can sue the violator and seek statutory damages. Additionally, the TCPA prohibits persons from making calls using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice to any telephone number assigned to a cellular telephone service, unless the telemarketer has the recipient’s prior express consent.

In Youngman’s case, he states he placed his telephone number on the National Do Not Call Registry in June 2003. But around January 2016, he began receiving unwanted telemarketing calls from A&B Financial and Insurance offering health insurance services.

“The caller informed Mr. Youngman at the beginning of each call that he was calling from “Florida Blue”, which is a d/b/a of A&B Insurance and they and informed him that they were calling to offer their goods and services,” the complaint states.

A&B Insurance denies that it did anything wrong. Complete details about the case and settlement are provided on the A&B Insurance and Financial TCPA settlement website.

“Class members who wish to object to or exclude themselves from the A&B Financial and Insurance TCPA settlement must do so by July 9, 2018. Class members who wish to participate in the settlement must submit a claim form on or before July 9, 2018.” – capitalist review

Important Dates

  • 7/9/18: Claim Form Deadline
  • 7/918: Objection or Exclusion Deadline
  • 8/30/18: Final Hearing at 9:00 am ET* (class members do not need to attend this hearing in order to receive a slice of the settlement pie).

*Settlement Class Members who wish to speak at the hearing should check www.ABDTCPASettlement.com to confirm that the date or time of the Hearing has not been changed.

Contact Information

  • Mail: Tallahassee Dodge Settlement Administrator, P.O. Box 6006, Portland, OR 97228-6006
  • Phone: 1-844-551-1722
  • Email: info@TDTCPASettlement.com

Class Counsel

Settlement Website

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Claim Between $20-$60 Pivotal Payments Unwanted Telemarketing Calls Class Action Settlement

Who is a Class Member

You are a member of the Pivotal Payments Unwanted Telemarketing Calls Class Action Settlement if you:

  1. Received one or more non-emergency telephone calls;
  2. Allegedly on Pivotal’s behalf;
  3. Promoting credit card processing services, other services, or goods of any kind;
  4. To your cellular telephone number;
  5. Through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice; and
  6. At any time in the period from April 15, 2016, up to and including September 2, 2016.

If you don’t qualify for this settlement, check out our database of other class action settlements you may be eligible for.

Settlement Amount

  • $9,000,000.00

Estimated Award

  • Between $20-$60 per claim

Settlement Class Members who file a valid and timely claim can receive a payment estimated to be between $20 and $60, depending on the number of valid claims submitted.

Proof of Purchase

  • To file a claim, you will need to provide your Class Member ID found on the front of your postcard notice or your affected phone number.

Claim Form

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Pivotal Payments Unwanted Telemarketing Calls Settlement Notes

  • Abante Rooter and Plumbing, Inc. et al. v. Pivotal Payments, Inc. d/b/a Capital Processing Network and CPN
  • Case No. 3:16-cv-05486-JCS
  • Pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

In 2016, plaintiff Abante Rooter & Plumbing filed a class action lawsuit alleging Pivotal Payments violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by using an automatic telephone dialing system to solicit business. Pivotal Payments is a provider of global payment processing solutions for merchants across the United States.

According to court documents, Pivotal Payments made several unwanted telemarketing calls to the plaintiffs business cell phone and allegedly did not obtain prior express consent to place these calls.

In 1991, Congress enacted the TCPA in response to a growing number of consumer complaints regarding certain telemarketing practices. The TCPA makes it unlawful “to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice … to any telephone number assigned to a … cellular telephone service.”

Pivotal Payments denies it did anything wrong. Still, the company agreed to settle the case for $9 million to avoid continued litigation. Complete details about the case and settlement are provided on the Pivotal Payments TCPA settlement website.

Class members who wish to object to or exclude themselves from the Pivotal TCPA settlement must do so by June 29, 2018. Class members who wish to participate in the settlement must submit a claim form on or before June 29, 2018.

Important Dates

  • 6/29/18: Claim Form Deadline
  • 6/29/18: Objection or Exclusion Deadline
  • 10/5/18: Final Hearing at 2:30 pm PT* (class members do not need to attend this hearing in order to receive a slice of the settlement pie).

*Settlement Class Members who wish to speak at the hearing should check the Pivotal Payments TCPA Settlement website to confirm that the date or time of the Hearing has not been changed.

Contact Information

  • Mail: Pivotal Payments Settlement, Epiq, Claims Administrator, P.O. Box 3207, Portland, OR 97208-3207
  • Phone:1-888-396-9692

Class Counsel

Settlement Website

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Cruise Robocall Settlement Claimants Required to Provide Additional Proof

At Class Action Wallet, we’ve been receiving many questions from our readers about when they can expect to receive their cash payout from the highly publicized Cruise Robocall Settlement. Many of you submitted your claims back in August and have since heard nothing from the settlement administrator or attorneys involved.

Well, now we know what is going on and are pleased to bring you an update to this settlement. According to recent email notice, the court is requiring what is known as a supplemental notice. This means claimants need to provide additional proof in order to get their money. Over two million people filed claims in the Cruise Robocall settlement, the court suspects that a substantial number of these may be fraudulent.

If you were included in the Cruise Robocall settlement and filed a claim by the original deadline of November 3, 2017, you should be receiving an email notice (make sure to check your spam folders!) from the settlement administrator that states, “Recipients of this email must submit proof of their connection to the phone numbers.” Basically, you now need to prove the phone number you gave in your claim form is actually yours. To do this, the court is asking you to provide a phone bill or any supplemental information that shows the phone number is yours. Claimants have until May 1, 2018 to upload this supplemental proof and can do this here.

To refresh your memory, the Cruise Robocall Settlement stems from claims brought by plaintiff Philip Charvet that Resort Marketing Group (RMG) violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act or TCPA, by placing automated telemarketing calls to consumers offering them a free cruise vacation with Carnival, Royal Caribbean, or Norwegian Cruise lines if they paid certain “fees”, which RMG kept.

“Over the four years prior to the filing of this lawsuit, and extending until March of 2014 – long after the filing of this lawsuit in July of 2012 – millions of illegal pre-recorded telemarketing calls were initiated by Travel Services to consumers nationwide, promoting by trade name the cruise services of the Cruise Defendants,” the Cruise Robocall class action lawsuit alleges.

Charvet challenged RMG’s practices alleging that since consumers never provided their express consent to receive these telemarketing calls as mandated by the TCPA, the company broke the law. The case also got the attention of the Federal Trade Commission. “The scope of the illegal telemarketing campaign at issue is also evidenced by records of consumer complaints obtained from the Federal Trade Commission in response to Freedom of Information Act requests,” the Cruise Robocall class action lawsuit noted.

The original settlement class included anyone who received a pre-recorded phone call on their residential or cell phone between July 2009 and March 2014 from RMG and a maximum payout of $900. This has since been updated to state “if you were the owner, subscriber, or user of a residential or cellular telephone line” that received the telemarketing robocalls. Additionally, claimants will now get a pro rata, or equal share, of the settlement, once all claims have been verified.

RMG continues to deny the claims and says they did not violate the TCPA but agreed to settle the class action lawsuit to the tune of $12.5 million.

The Class is represented by Matthew P. McCue of The Law Office of Matthew P. McCue; Alexander H. Burke and Daniel J. Marovitch of Burke Law Offices LLC; and Edward A. Broderick and Anthony Paronich of Broderick & Paronich PC.

The Cruise Robocall TCPA Class Action Lawsuit is Charvat v. Resort Marketing Group Inc., et al., Case No. 1:12-cv-5746, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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