Class Action Alleges Dominion Energy Runs Unlawful ‘Wide-Scale Calling Campaign’
Dominion Energy generates substantial profits “from soliciting potential customers through telemarketing in markets where consumers have a choice as to what utility company they use,” alleged plaintiffs Terry Galyean and Gregg Snare in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action…
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Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-00477) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Richmond. Dominion conducted “a wide-scale calling campaign, repeatedly making unsolicited telemarketing calls” in violation of “applicable federal law,” it said. Due to Dominion’s unlawful acts, the plaintiffs and their proposed class members “have suffered harm,” including lost time, loss of the use of their phones as the calls came in, involuntary phone charges, involuntary electrical charges due to the increased battery use necessitated by the calls and mental and emotional distress, it said. The facts as they concern each named plaintiff “are indicative and exemplary of a wider pattern of knowing and willful violations of the TCPA and its associated regulations,” it said. Both plaintiffs had their numbers listed on the national do not call registry for at least five years, but the calls from Dominion never stopped, said their complaint.