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AT&T Customers Win Class Action Settlement Jackpot

By Kimberly Mirando

 

AT&TAlmost 7,000 AT&T customers in California have hit the class action lawsuit settlement jackpot, with each receiving $1,000 or more for overcharges on their phone bills that for most of them amounted to a fraction of that. The payout underscores why it’s beneficial for Class Members of any class action lawsuit to fill out claims, even if they think a settlement payout will be small or don’t know how much money they will receive.

The AT&T class action settlement payout will go to AT&T residential landline customers in California between August 2001 and March 2003 who responded to newspaper and Web ads published statewide. One of the Plaintiff attorneys said no attempt was made to contact potential Class Members by mail because AT&T produced such poor records that the cost of providing individual class action settlement notices could have exceeded $2 million, or 20-percent of the fund.

The AT&T settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit that accused AT&T of charging its California long-distance customers more Universal Service Fund fees than allowed during that 20-month period.

AT&T was ordered to set up a $10.9 million class action lawsuit settlement fund to repay victims. Anyone who responded to the ads with a valid claim before April 29, 2011, was eligible to receive somewhere between $5 and $1,000 per phone line, depending on how many people responded.

If all of the estimated 6 million AT&T customers had filed a claim, the class action lawsuit settlement payout would have been about $2 per person. However, only 6,961 people with 9,045 phone lines submitted valid claims. As a result, starting this month the settlement administrator will mail checks for $1,000 to each of the claimants.

 

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Updated March 1, 2012

 

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28 thoughts onAT&T Customers Win Class Action Settlement Jackpot

  1. Travis Coulter says:

    I received an email and was directed to a page where I filled out a claim form and have not heard anything back.I have had ATT cell service for 9 years. The form I filled out did not say if it was for land lines or cell. Does anybody know who I can contact. I filled the form out and paid 2 dollars and change for processing fees. ??????

  2. hernan vazquez says:

    How do i know if i am in tittle of any compensation since i have been with at&t for several years now, thank you

  3. Ernesto Williams says:

    I need an attorney that can file a lawsuit on att for false damages to phone. Can you imagine how many millions are made on liquid damage phones. I send in a phone because it stopped working due to charging battery damage. Guess what att said it was guess water damage they billed me 259.00 this all you get from them. This phone was not even close to my sweat. Att is making a killing with this lie if I was an attorney I would check how many phones are billed to coustomers for liquid damage what a lie but att making big bucks with this lie

  4. alisa ware says:

    I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA YOU CAN BE IN THE SUIT,i ve had them for years. I was 19 when I first went to them and im 48 now, they have to be called from me every month to fix my bill I have had bad luck with them.the bill is never right .so can I be in on this suit.alisa ware

  5. sandra says:

    submitted a claim 11/06/13 haven’t heard anything from anyone still can’t find out when i will be receiving a check

  6. Ethel Moore says:

    I just wandering how long this settlement suppose to take it been over 2 months now and also always wandering why I paid my bill and every time new bill came. I could figure out why my bill kept getting higher still of lower.Latter I found out why and could believe the charges that was take place on my phone that I would never accept. If knew than what no now I would put stop to this but I did not see the charges all I no bill never got lower after it was paid for.

  7. Hattie Duncan says:

    I live in Jackson, Tn. and haven’t received a dam thing! I guess I’ll have to sue them individually in fed. court.

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