Total Call International Settles Class Action Lawsuit

Total Call International announced last week that they had reached a settlement in the class action lawsuit recently brought against them by plaintiffs nationwide. The class action suit alleged that Total Call International sold prepaid phone cards without properly disclosing all of the fees and charges on their products. While Total Call admits to no wrongdoings they have agreed to the settlement to keep from having to pay further dollars in legal fees defending this mater.

While the settlement is not completely finalized yet (still requires court approval), it will give any customer who purchased a card from them between January 1st 1999 to July 28th 2009 a replacement pin valued at $0.50 to customers calling domestically (with a $0.10 a minute rate) or a pin valued at $0.25 to those calling internationally (with an undisclosed rate).

To qualify to receive a replacement pin, customers must submit a PIN number from an eligible Total Call International calling card or submit a notarized, written statement declaring that they were the purchaser of an eligible Total Call International calling card. Seems like a big process to get a $.50 PIN especially if you don't still have the pin from one of your cards in the past!

For customers to file a claim they should visit Total Call's website at http://www.totalcallusa.com/news

Just one interesting point of note, the law firm that orchestrated this whole class action lawsuit is Freed & Weiss LLC, the same one that brought the class action suit against Locus Telecommunication last year.