For many years the Hageman vs. AT&T TCPA class settlement was the record holder in terms of cost-per-class-member.

Back in 2014 AT&T agreed to pay $45,000,000.00 (!!!) to settle a case involving just 16,000 people.

That amounted to an eye popping $2,812.50 a class member!

To say that AT&T overpaid is a massive understatement.

Virtually zero TCPA class cases have settled for over $500.00 a class member over the years, and I cannot think of another case where the defendant paid even $1,000.00 a class member. (For comparison, many of the class settlements Troutman has been a part set a settlement range in the $2.00-$4.00 per class member range!)

Regardless the new TCPA settlement in Quinn v. JK Buick 2024 WL 4613360 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 30, 2024) is the only settlement in Troutman’s memory that even comes close to the per-class-member amount set in Hageman, but there’s a big catch.

In Quinn the defendant agreed to settle a class of only 54 people! So the total amount of the settlement was only $130,000.00. So while the per-class-member figure is massive ($2,407.00) the overall cost of the settlement is among the lowest you will ever see in a TCPA class action.

In fact, ironically, this might be the lowest dollar overall TCPA class action settlement in history, which is pretty remarkable.

So there you have it.

AT&T’s great TCPA blunder continues to stand the test of time while a tiny Buick dealership now holds the record for the cheapest overall (yet quite expensive per class member) TCPA class settlement of all time.