BROWNSVILLE – A Friendswood consumer alleges a Florida debt collector has harassed her with phone calls.
Heloisa Jager filed a complaint on May 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas against Hunter Warfield Inc. alleging violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that beginning in or around October 2016, she began receiving telephone calls to her cellular telephone from defendant. She alleges she instructed the defendant to stop contacting her in March 2017 to no avail. As a consequence of defendant's actions, she alleges she has been harassed.
The plaintiff holds Hunter Warfield Inc. responsible because the defendants allegedly repeatedly and continuously placed calls to her cellular telephone even after being instructed to stop calling her and made calls using an automatic telephone dialing system and/or prerecorded or automated voice message.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks actual, treble and statutory damages; reasonable attorneys’ fees; witness fees; court costs; and any other relief that the court deems appropriate. She is represented by Amy L. Bennecoff Ginsburg of Kimmel & Silverman PC in Ambler, Pennsylvania.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas case number 4:18-cv-01397