Mutual of Omaha Can’t Escape Suit Over Telemarketing Calls

Mutual of Omaha Co. must face a proposed class action alleging it made marketing calls to Maryland consumers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a federal court ruled.

Keyonna Jones claimed in the lawsuit that Mutual of Omaha made pre-recorded telemarketing calls to her phone through a third party telemarketer without her consent.

The insurer argued in its motion to dismiss that the court lacked jurisdiction over the lawsuit because it hadn’t made the calls at issue and was neither directly nor vicariously liable for them under the TCPA, but Judge Ellen L. Hollander of the US District ...