DOWN AGAIN!: TCPA Class Actions in August Were Narrowly Down From 2025 For the Third Month in a Row

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Is the TCPA threat slowly starting to abate?

August, 2026 saw the third straight month of TCPA class action filing declines from 2025.

In 2025 there were 162 TCPA class actions filed. In 2026 there were 143 TCPA class actions filed– a decrease of 11.7%

While this is not the epic 45% drop we saw in July, 2026 vs July, 2025 it is the third straight month of YoY declines TCPA class action filings.

Indeed 2026 TCPA class action filings are now only narrowly ahead of last year’s pace. Last year there were 1,512 TCPA class action filings through July 31, 2025. This year there were 1,514–meaning we are essentially in a dead heat with last year.

You can see the trend is this totally awesome chart… 

So was the summer dip merely a regression to the mean or is it the start of a meaningful trend of filing declines?

Several factors suggest an end to the TCPA rocket– most importantly DNC cases are absolutely cratering and SMS cases are essentially dead in most jurisdictions.

In fact when I speak at ANA Masters of Law in three weeks the theme is going to be “is it safe to go back in the water?”

Still the Plaintiff’s bar remains eager to file TCPA wrong number robocall (and AI voice) class actions so be cautious out there.

As always we thank WebRecon for the awesome stats.

Speaking of awesome, AEP is literally right around the corner and we brought Chris Michelson of EnrollHere and Medicare Compliance .com onto the podcast to discuss the challenges facing agents this year. If you’re in the medicare game you absolutely cannot miss Deserve to Win 53!

Chat soon.

 

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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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