WOAH: TCPA Class Actions Up 43% in October, 2023–And a Stunning 69% of TCPA Cases Were Filed as Class Actions–the Most EVER!

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Holy insanity.

We have been tracking the impressive increase in TCPA cases year over year but October was really one for the record books.

TCPA class action filings spiked 43% above October, 2022–continuing an overall trend of MUCH more TCPA class action activity in 2023 over 2022.

And if that wasn’t eye popping enough for you– 69% of all TCPA cases were filed as class actions. That’s 7 out of every 10 cases.

My goodness.

I have never seen anything like this– no one has. A federal statute that is generating many times more class actions than individual suits? Such a thing has never existed before.

Indeed, other statutes generate single digit class litigation.

Just unbelievable.

And once the FCC’s new ruling takes effect we can foresee a further spike in TCPA class litigation.

The TCPA really is a once in a generation opportunity for plaintiff’s lawyers to get rich, and man are they taking it.

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Published by Eric "Czar" Troutman

The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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  1. No surprise here. The Robocall Index (TM) has been showing all year that 2023 is on track to be a “robocall epidemic.”. Either the telemarketers are not listening to their attorneys, or their attorneys are giving them bad legal advice, or they just do not care about the TCPA Whichever it is, kudos to those bringing on the lawsuits against these rabid telemarketers and making robocalling less profitable for them.

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