Molina Healthcare TCPA Lawsuit Seeks End to Unwanted Phone Calls

In a new proposed class action Molina Healthcare TCPA lawsuit, a California woman claims the company placed multiple autodialed calls to her mobile phone without her consent.

Plaintiff Carrie Beets says defendant Molina Healthcare Inc. has been using either an automatic dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded message to contact persons on their mobile phones.

According to Beets, Molina Healthcare made more than one call to her mobile phone number using either an autodialer or an artificial or prerecorded voice.

Beets says she never gave Molina Healthcare her consent to contact her in that manner. She says she never gave the company her mobile phone number, and in fact she never even had any contact with the company prior to these phone calls.

She says she specifically asked the company to stop calling her. Nevertheless, she claims, the calls kept coming.

Beets believes the defendants used an automatic telephone dialing system to contact her. She says that after she picked up the calls, she heard a pause followed by a recorded message.

Molina Healthcare TCPA Lawsuit Cites Multiple Online Complaints

In her Molina Healthcare TCPA lawsuit, Beets cites online complaints from other recipients of unwanted calls from Molina Healthcare. Several complainants report hearing nothing but dead air when they answer the calls.

Some report receiving multiple calls, sometimes as many as three times in 20 minutes. Others say they never heard of Molina Healthcare before they started receiving repeated calls from the company.

In one online complaint, the call recipient says she was told during one call that Molina Healthcare would take her off their call lists. But the calls kept on coming even after then, she reports.

Beets’s claim falls under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA. This law was passed in 1991 in response to complaints about unsolicited telemarketing phone calls.

As originally passed, the TCPA forbids callers from placing calls to a residential telephone number using an artificial or prerecorded voice without the prior express consent of the person being called. Later amendments of the TCPA have since placed similar restrictions on SMS text messaging and calls made to mobile phone lines.

Calls that constitute willing violations of the TCPA may subject the caller to as much as $1,500 in statutory damages per violation.

Beets is asking the Court to appoint her as Class representative for all persons in the U.S. who, within the period beginning four years before the filing of this Molina Healthcare TCPA lawsuit, received a nonemergency call from Molina Healthcare without having given Molina Healthcare their prior express written consent to be contacted in that manner.

She is proposing to divide the Class Members into three different Classes, depending on whether they were called using an autodialer or a prerecorded message, or whether they were called in violation of Molina Healthcare’s internal do-not-call list.

The Molina Healthcare TCPA Lawsuit is Carrie Beets v. Molina Healthcare Inc., Case No. 2:16-cv-05642 in the U.S. District Court for the Central 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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