Solar Energy Firm ‘Bombarded’ Plaintiff With More Than 100 Sales Calls, Says Suit
Sunrun, a company that promotes and sells solar energy systems, placed numerous unwanted calls to Bradley Hofvander’s cellphone, “some or all of which deployed a prerecorded or computer-generated voice, invading his privacy and causing the loss of time and effort,”…
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alleged Hofvander's Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-02798) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The TCPA “affords special protections against harassing people with prerecorded or computer-generated voice messages," the complaint said. Hofvander, a resident of Des Plaines, Illinois, listed his cellphone number on the national do not call registry more than 20 years ago, yet Sunrun “bombarded” him with at least 100 calls touting its products, it said. The plaintiff received 40 such calls since Jan. 16, despite attempts to block them, it added. In many cases, the caller left a voicemail message, it said. “The content of the calls and the voice used is identical, inconsistent with a human caller,” said the complaint. Sunrun’s conduct harassed Hofvander and wasted his time, “in that he had to devote energy to answering, addressing and/or otherwise responding to numerous unwanted calls,” it said.