Lobel Financial TCPA Lawsuit Filed by Calif. Man

A California plaintiff recently filed a class action Lobel Financial TCPA lawsuit, alleging that the company violated TCPA rules by placing robocalls without his prior express permission.

The plaintiff, Daniel Glantz alleges in his Lobel Financial TCPA lawsuit that the company made 8 calls to the plaintiff’s cell phone between December 29, 2015 and January 15, 2016, each time using an autodialer and/or an artificial voice recording.

These calls were directed not at the plaintiff, but instead at the previous owner of his cell phone number.

In fact, the plaintiff allegedly had no contact with Lobel Financial prior to receiving these calls, and could not have consented to receiving these robocalls in any way, whether written or verbal.

Many of these calls were placed days apart, but some were even made twice on the same day.

Glantz is not the only person who has been contacted by an autodialing system from Lobel Financial without prior express consent. Consumers have made online complaints about the robocalling tactics of this company for quite some time.

These consumers note that they were contacted despite never having had any contact or relationship with Lobel Financial, and that the company was consistently calling for someone else.

Some of these complaints date as far back as 2014.

Because so many consumers seem to have been affected similarly by robocalls from Lobel Financial, Glantz filed a class action Lobel Financial TCPA lawsuit that consists of class members who received a non-emergency autodial robocall without prior written consent.

The class extends back to those who received these calls up to four years before the filing of this Lobel Financial TCPA lawsuit.

TCPA Basics

Without prior express written consent to make these calls, the plaintiff claims in the lawsuit, Lobel Financial violated TCPA rules.

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, was first instigated in 1991. The TCPA was intended to protect consumers from unwanted solicitation through technology.

The TCPA has always focused on the placement of unwanted robocalls, or the use of an auto dialer or pre-recorded messaging system to contact consumers who have not given their explicit permission to receive such calls.

As new technology such as cell phones has emerged, the TCPA has expanded to include SMS text messaging as well.

Reporting Violations of the TCPA

Reporting TCPA violations or filing a lawsuit over unwanted robocalls like this Lobel Financial TCPA lawsuit can help force companies to comply with TCPA rules. Reports of such violations may also reward consumers with a set amount of award money per individual violation.

According to the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, reports of TCPA violations are extremely common. The FCC received more than 215,000 individual TCPA complaints in 2014 alone.

If you have received robocalls from a company without having given permission, you may be able to report these violations and receive compensation per violation.

Keep messages and phone records of the robocalls placed to your phone. In order for your TCPA lawsuit to be most effective, you will need proof of these violations.

The Lobel Financial TCPA Lawsuit is Daniel Glantz v. Lobel Financial Corp., Case No. 3:16-cv-00804, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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If you were contacted on your cell phone by a company via an unsolicited text message (text spam) or prerecorded voice message (robocall), you may be eligible for compensation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

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