Mealey's (January 4, 2018, 9:43 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on Dec. 26 partially certified a class in a lawsuit accusing an insurance agent of sending faxed advertisements to parties who had not consented to receiving them in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), finding that the named plaintiff may represent only one of two proposed classes (John C. Etter, et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al., No. 17-184, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 212166)....