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This settlement is closed!
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UPDATE 2:
- Claimants in this class action settlement reported receiving second payments of $2.50 in late April 2021.
- Congratulations to everyone who made a claim and got paid!
UPDATE:
- On April 16, 2018, Class Members in a Carnival Cruise, Royal Caribbean settlement have been asked to provideadditional proof for their claims.
- The claimants have until May 1, 2018, to respond to the settlement administrator with additional proof or to opt out of the settlement.
Recipients of cruise line telemarketing phone calls from Carnival, Norwegian or Royal Caribbean can claim benefits from a recent Royal Caribbean class action settlement.
Plaintiff Philip Charvat claims he received prerecorded cruise line telemarketing calls from defendant Resort Marketing Group Inc. These calls allegedly offered promotions from Carnival, Norwegian, and Royal Caribbean cruise lines, each of whom is also named as a defendant in this telemarketing class action lawsuit.
Charvat accused Carnival, Norwegian, and Royal Caribbean of contracting with Resort Marketing Group to initiate these cruise line telemarketing calls. He claimed that nether the cruise line companies nor Resort Marketing Group ever received prior express written consent from him allowing them to contact him in that manner.
Without such consent, Charvat argued the defendant’s cruise line telemarketing violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA.
The TCPA imposes substantial penalties on companies that knowingly violate its telemarketing restrictions. It generally forbids telemarketers from making calls using automated dialing equipment and prerecorded messages, unless the person being called has given the caller prior express written consent to be contacted that way.
The TCPA is also the legal authority behind the National Do Not Call Registry. Anyone who does not want to receive calls from telemarketers can list their phone number on this registry. The number becomes off-limits to telemarketers 30 days after its listed.
Persons who receive calls that violate the TCPA can bring a civil TCPA lawsuit against the caller. Callers who commit knowing or willful violations may be subject to statutory damages of $500 to $1,500 per call.
U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood granted preliminary approval of the Royal Caribbean class action settlement in July 2017. The agreement requires the defendants to create a settlement fund worth between $7 million and $12.5 million, depending on how many claims are filed.
This Royal Caribbean class action settlement will cover payments to qualifying Class Members, an incentive award for Charvat, costs of administering the settlement, and the Class’ court costs and attorneys’ fees.
Who’s Eligible
Class Members eligible to claim benefits include those persons in the U.S. who owned, subscribed to, or used residential or cellular telephone numbers listed in Resort Marketing Group’s dialer database, and who received pre-recorded telemarketing calls from Resort Marketing Group that mentioned either Carnival, Norwegian, or Royal Caribbean cruise lines between July 23, 2009 and March 8, 2014.
The settlement agreement specifically limits Class Members to those persons whose phone numbers are listed in Resort Marketing Group’s database.
Potential Award
Up to $900 per telephone number.
Class Members who submit valid and timely claims may receive payments for up to three calls per telephone number at $300 per call, for a total maximum payment of $900 per telephone number.
These are the maximum possible payments. Actual payments will be determined in part by the number of claims received.
Proof of Purchase
Claimants must provide either a claim number or a phone number. Claim numbers are being distributed to known Class Members in their individual class notices.
Persons who believe they may be a Class Member but did not receive a claim number may look up their phone number on the settlement administrator’s website to confirm whether that phone number is included in the settlement. If the number is included, the Class Member may file a claim for that number.
Class Members may file a claim for each number they believe is included in the settlement.
Claim Form Deadline
11/3/2017
Case Name
Philip Charvat v. Resort Marketing Group Inc., et al., Case No. 1:12-cv-05746, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Final Hearing
10/30/2018 UPDATED
UPDATE: The Carnival Cruise, Royal Caribbean Telemarketing Class Action Settlement was granted final approval on October 28, 2019. There is a 30 day period after final approval in which appeals can be filed. Top Class Actions is following the case, and will keep our viewers posted.
UPDATE 2: On November 18, 2019, an appeal to the Carnival Cruise, Royal Caribbean Telemarketing Class Action Settlement was filed. Claims will not be paid all appeals are exhausted. We appreciate your ongoing patience. Top Class Actions will continue to provide updates as we learn more.
UPDATE 3: On April 2, 2020, the appeals to the Royal Caribbean Telemarketing Class Action Settlement were resolved. It is not known at this time how quickly claims will be paid. Top Class Actions will continue to provide updates as we learn more.
UPDATE 4: On July 1, 2020, the settlement administrator posted an updated stating that settlement payments are estimated to be mailed on August 7, 2020. Let Top Class Actions know when you receive a check in the comments section below or on our Facebook page.
UPDATE 5: On Aug. 13, 2020, Top Class Actions viewers started receiving long-awaited checks in the mail from the Carnival Cruise, Royal Caribbean telemarketing class action settlement worth as much as $25.02! Congratulations to everyone who filed a valid claim and got PAID!
Settlement Website
Claims Administrator
RMG TCPA Settlement Administrator
P.O. Box 404022
Louisville, KY 40233-4022
(855) 636-6134
Class Counsel
Matthew P. McCue
LAW OFFICE OF MATTHEW P. MCCUE
Alexander H. Burke
Daniel J. Marovitch
BURKE LAW OFFICES LLC
Edward A. Broderick
Anthony Paronich
BRODERICK & PARONICH PC
Defense Counsel
Counsel for Carnival:
Jeffrey S. Becker
SWANSON MARTIN & BELL LLP
Counsel for Royal Caribbean and Norwegian:
Catherine J. MacIvor
Jeffrey Foreman
FOREMAN FRIEDMAN PA
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400 thoughts onCarnival Cruise, Royal Caribbean Telemarketing Class Action Settlement
It’s now September 16 and no word since July 31. What is going on with this?? Please tell us something.
I got my hair cut last month on the 28th. Neither thing has to do with THIS case … Marcella, Jeff, RAVEN — that is good you each got $200, but, from an action COMPLETELY SEPARATE AND NOT RELATED to this one, which is Charvat v. Resort Marketing Group — That’s what you are on the page of. Your $200 is likely from the case involving ‘Caribbean something or other’ in the name of the Class Action.
If you are following a case, it is really essential to know the name of the case.
Charvat v. Resort Marketing Group. That is what we are here for. Any official letter or document, INCLUDING any CHECK regarding this case will have printed on its face: Charvat v. Resort Marketing Group.
Is this true, I have not got anything yet.Let us know something.
My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night told us that NO, it is NOT TRUE that any $200 or any other denomination checks have been sent in relation to this case. This case remains in process.
TAKE AWAY: If I had a good claim pending in a class action vs. Coca Cola, and I noticed that people started getting checks from Pepsi — I would really do my best not to conflate the two cases. Just sayin’
It’s been over a month now with no update at all. What is going on with this?
Well, since it was July 31, 2019, the Court indicated that a status hearing had been held, and that it anticipated ruling on the pending motions in the case in short order — we have been trying and trying to remember if “short order” is three months, or if it is six months, or even more?
Of course, since U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood granted preliminary approval of the cruise line telemarketing class action settlement in July 2017, she could have retired and taken a half a dozen cruises, or more, in the years and months that we all have continued awaiting progress of the glacial adjudication process ….
A lot of people are receiving $200.00 checks in the last week. With the promise of more as the case is 100% resolved.
The $200 checks are from a completely different case.
A friend in Brady, Tex just messaged me that she received a $200 check today from this settlement.
So ……………….there is some hope, for the rest of us? ……. If so, then …..
Devilishly clever of the claims administrator, Kurtzman Carson Consultants, to start mailing without
a word of it on the case site – RMGtcpaSettlement.com [sometimes seems they are just cruisin’]
that’s great, so was that from one call two, or three?
As Destiny mentions, that was from zero calls, in this case. This case has yet to be resolved. Sorry, Hary.
Your friend probably got a check from the Caribbean cruise class settlement. Carnival has not released any money or updated any information on the website. Only cruise settlement that is paying out now is the one called Birchmeir vs Caribbean.
That is the one she said was on the check.
lets hope its one month,
This has been years now that we’ve all been strung along. Maybe we can get some help from some top news channels to research and report on this publically like nbc, cbs worth a try!
CBS has done fine expose’s on issues like this. Particularly the west coast station, KCBS.
So why are they stringing us along? So the pay out will be for all the lawyers and not the people who were harassed daily with those annoying calls?
Please, let us know when ?
The claims administrator website posted this morning:
On July 31, 2019, the Court entered a minute order reflecting that a status hearing had been held, and that the Court anticipated issuing a written ruling on the pending motions in the case in short order.
What comes after a written ruling?
It will likely depend on what the ruling is. Unfortunately, there are more than two possibilities. Like most of life, these things are seldom fully black & white … they get twisted into grey areas by the whole loooong process ….. =(
when is there going to be a update please let me know.
So I tried to get an update but the site is no longer up and running. Anyone know status as of July 2019
The site is still active but no updates.
I wish they would settle this already, so everyone can move on,
I agree. The status of what? End it already and send the amount owed to the claimants already. At least update us on what’s going on. At this point the attorneys are likely the only ones to get anything. Kind of pointless for the rest of us if that’s the case.