Health IQ Fails to Bounce Class Lawsuit Over Telemarketing Calls

HI.Q Inc. must face a proposed class action alleging it made telemarketing calls offering health insurance to consumers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a federal court ruled.

Maki Tyner alleged in the lawsuit that HI.Q Inc., which does business as Health IQ, made telemarketing calls to her number on the Do Not Call Registry without her consent, and continued making the calls after she had asked to opt-out of them.

HI.Q argued in a motion for summary judgment that Tyner’s claims were barred because she gave her consent to receiving its telemarketing calls when she filled out ...