Debt Collection Calls Class Suit Settled For Nearly $2.3 Million

Mealey's (April 1, 2020, 11:29 AM EDT) -- WORCESTER, Mass. — A federal judge in Massachusetts on March 23 granted final approval of a $2,275,000 settlement to be paid by Target Enterprise Inc. to end class claims that it placed more than two debt collection calls in a seven-day period to a class of Massachusetts residents but reduced the class counsel’s request for attorney fees of 33-1/3 percent of the total settlement (Gabrielle Carlson, et al. v. Target Enterprise, Inc., No. 18-40139, D. Mass., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49636)....