AT&T Landline Third-Party Billing Class Action Settlement Claims Being Processed

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Payments from a 2013 class action lawsuit settlement with AT&T landline customers over third-party billing charges may be finally be on their way according to Court documents.

In a letter dated June 5, lead counsel John G. Jacobs of the law firm Jacobs Kolton, CHTD. told the Court that approximately 76 percent (128,048) of Class Members’ claims have been processed by the Settlement Administrator for a total dollar amount of over $48.7 million.

The money is from a class action lawsuit settlement reached in early 2013 over allegations that AT&T placed unauthorized charges from third-party companies on its landline customers’ bills and collected money for those charges.

AT&T denied any wrongdoing but agreed to offer landline customers who were billed for one of these unauthorized third-party charges a 100-percent refund. Some Class Members stand to receive hundreds of dollars while others may only see a few dollars, depending on how many charges they paid.

A California federal court approved the AT&T landline class action settlement on Nov. 27, 2013, but payments were delayed by an appeal filed by a single Class Member in December 2013. The Appellant subsequently withdrew his appeal and on March 19, 2014, the Court granted the Objector-Appellant’s unopposed voluntary motion to dismiss the appeal with prejudice. The dismissal now frees up the Settlement Administrator to begin processing claims and to send out payments to Class Members.

Class Members of the AT&T third-party billing settlement had until Dec. 2, 2013 to file a claim to receive a full refund of any unauthorized third-party charges they paid to AT&T. Class Members who requested a Billing Summary from AT&T to help them identify which unauthorized charges they paid had 30 days after they received the Summary to file a claim.

Jacobs told the Court that as of June 1, over 549,000 Billing Summary requests had been made, covering over 806,000 telephone numbers.

Jacobs’ update did not indicate when the Settlement Administrator planned on distributing payments to approved claimants, but Class Members are encouraged to keep checking the Settlement website www.ATTThirdPartyBillingSettlement.com for updates. Top Class Actions will also continue to update our viewers as new information becomes available.

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The AT&T Landline Third-Party Billing Class Action Lawsuit Settlement is Nwabueze et al. v. AT&T. et al., Case Number CV-09-1529, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Important Alert from the Settlement Administrator:

The Garden City Group, the claims administrator for the Nwabueze v. AT&T Inc. settlement, has recently learned that individuals representing themselves to be associated with the Nwabueze v. AT&T Inc. settlement have contacted one or more class members and sought to obtain full social security numbers and bank account information. Please be advised that these individuals are not acting on behalf of the Nwabueze v. AT&T Inc. settlement. No one associated with the Nwabueze v. AT&T Inc. settlement will ever request that you provide information regarding your full social security number or personal bank account. Therefore, please be careful about releasing your full social security number and bank account numbers to others.

If you receive a call requesting such information or if you are concerned about a call you receive, please write down the phone number and contact the Garden City Group at Nwabueze v. AT&T, Inc. c/o GCG, P.O. Box 35045, Seattle, WA 98124 or by email at info@ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com.