Meadowbrook Can’t Shake Class Action Over Reverse Mortgage Calls

Meadowbrook Financial Mortgage Bankers Corp. failed to convince a federal trial court in Pennsylvania to strike a request for a proposed class in a suit alleging the company made unsolicited telemarketing calls.

The request came too early in the proceedings, Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said March 10.

Gerard Jackson, whose name is on the national do not call registry, sued Meadowbrook under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act after allegedly receiving multiple telemarketing calls selling its reverse mortgage services. Jackson sought to certify a class of all persons in ...