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Top Class Actions viewers are starting to receive checks in the mail from a class action settlement that accused Portfolio Recovery Associates of placing unwanted calls to consumers’ cell phones in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
According to comments and posts on the Top Class Actions Facebook page, Class Members who filed valid claims for the Portfolio Recovery Associates settlement began receiving checks worth as much as $30.68 on June 5, 2017.
If you filed a claim for the Portfolio Recovery Associates TCPA settlement, keep an eye on your mailbox because checks are on their way!
The settlement resolves allegations that Portfolio Recovery Associates placed unsolicited robocalls to consumers in an effort to collect on outstanding debts. One of the plaintiffs claimed that Portfolio Recovery Associates called his cell phone more than 20 times in two months.
The debt collection company admitted to trying to collect on debts, but denied violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits companies from placing calls without obtaining prior express consent of the call recipient.
Portfolio Recovery agreed to pay $18 million to settle the consolidated class action lawsuit, which consisted of a Class of more than 7 million consumers.
Class Members included “All natural persons residing in the United States who received one or more telephone calls from an autodialer or a predictive dialer operated by Defendants to such person’s cellular telephone number between December 23, 2006 and July 1, 2013, inclusive, and who are listed in the csv data file titled pra_outbound_dial_list_20140304.zip produced to Plaintiffs’ counsel.”
The deadline to file a claim for the Portfolio Recovery Associates class action settlement passed on Oct. 26, 2016.
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The Class is represented by James O. Latturner of Edelman Combs Latturner & Goodwin LLC, and Ethan Preston of Preston Law Offices.
The Portfolio Recovery Associates Unwanted Calls Class Action Lawsuit is In re: Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC Telephone Consumer Protection Act Litigation, Case No. 11-MD-2295-JAH-BGS, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
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53 thoughts onPortfolio Recovery Associates Class Action Settlement Checks Mailed
I received mine for $6.76. It also stated on the check that it was residual. That’s interesting.
I received a check for $30.68 on June 5, 2017 and received a second check for $6.76 on August 9, 2018. Not sure what the second check is all about. The original settlement page stated “each claim should receive approximately twenty-eight dollars ($28)”
Just got a check today for $6.76 from the class action settlement.
Got my check today $6.76
Never got a check why???
I dunno if it’s based on state or what, but my informed delivery is showing a check for me arriving today.. I’m in WV.. yours may be coming still
I got one today for $6.76
Same thing today August 9th for $6.76. Never got the $30.68 some people say they rec’d last summer although I was at same address, in Oregon.
I wonder who is issuing these checks. Lawyers for the class action plaintiffs or lawyers for Portfolio Inc ?
I never received a check
Been trying to get my check reissued still have not got it done
Same here i cant cash it
The numbers were tore off of the bottom of my check – I need to have mine re issued, who can I contact ?
I didn’t get my check
Same here I didn’t get mine
You can contact the settlement administrator to inquire about the status of your claim: https://www.pratcpasettlement.com/Home.aspx.
I haven’t received my check yet. Is anyone else still waiting …
In Colorado?
Got mine laat,week but,can’t cash it without a bank account since it has no endorsement line. 30.68 is the amount. Why couldn’t they send a regular sized check? Lol
I think they did it for that very outcome. I wouldn’t put it past them at all. They sent it in the postcard form so some would either throw it away without realizing it was a check(something I almost did but I got a gut feeling to open it) or some wouldn’t be able to cash it. Maybe just maybe it was purely innocent and done because it would be cheaper for them to produce but I doubt it.