Plaintiff Who Alleged Allstate Shows ‘Flagrant Disregard’ for TCPA Adds New Defendant
Attorney and pro se plaintiff Bryan Reo, in his first amended complaint against Allstate for statutory violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, added Allstate agent Keith Zabrocki as a new defendant. Reo’s original complaint early in 2023 alleged Allstate…
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shows “flagrant disregard” for TCPA because it got Reo’s contact information through improper means, and it repeatedly called him on his cellphone to solicit insurance products and services (see 2302220037). Allstate’s “initial disclosures” in that litigation identified the Keith Zabroski Agency as the entity responsible for obtaining Reo’s contact information and placing the unlawful calls, said the amended complaint Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-00329) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Ohio in Cleveland. Zabrocki “appears to be domiciled in Ohio and appears to be doing business in Ohio as an unincorporated sole proprietorship,” it said. Reo previously sued Allstate in 2013 and 2022, with both cases settled and resolved before “the accrual of the causes of action” pled in the current case, it said. During the 2022 litigation, Reo gave Allstate “an exhaustive list of his phone numbers,” and made it clear he didn’t want to be called by Allstate or any agents acting on its behalf, it said. But the calls ersisted, sparking Reo to file his 2023 litigation, it said.