Peoria Class Action Is 8th TCPA Complaint Filed vs. State Farm Since 2013
Plaintiff Gabriel Nater seeks an injunction requiring State Farm to cease all unsolicited artificial and prerecorded voice phone calls, plus an award of statutory damages, court costs and attorneys’ fees for the insurance company’s repeated Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations,…
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said his TCPA class action Friday (docket 1:23-cv-01408) in U.S. District Court for Central Illinois in Peoria. In State Farm’s “overzealous attempt to market its services,” it knowingly and willfully made, and continues to make, unsolicited telemarketing phone calls using an artificial or prerecorded voice without the prior express written consent of the call recipients, it said. Through this “method,” State Farm has invaded the Tennessee resident’s “personal privacy” and that of members of his putative class, it said. State Farm “has intentionally and repeatedly violated the TCPA, and will continue to do so” in violation of Nater’s and the class members’ rights, “absent judicial relief and legal redress,” it said. Court records show that Nater’s complaint is the eighth TCPA action filed against State Farm since March 2013.