This money will be used to: (1) make settlement payments to Settlement Class Members, (2) pay the costs of distributing notice and settlement payment checks to Settlement Class Members and other costs of administering the Settlement and (3) pay court-awarded attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses of the attorneys appointed by the Court to represent the Class (“Class Counsel”) and any service awards granted to the Plaintiffs. If the Settlement is approved and becomes final, National Grid will pay thirty-eight million five-hundred thousand dollars ($38,500,000.00) into a settlement fund.
You may be included in the Settlement Class if you are a person residing in the United States who, from Mauntil October 29, 2021, received a telephone call on a cellular telephone using a prerecorded or artificial voice from National Grid related to any one of the five reasons outlined above.National Grid denies those allegations and disputes that it did anything wrong. Plaintiffs allege that this conduct violates the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act. A proposed Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving certain claims that National Grid and its debt collectors made calls with automated dialers and/or prerecorded or artificial voice messages to cellular telephones related to: (1) the payment or status of a current or past National Grid Utility Account or bill (2) an “important matter” concerning a current or past National Grid Utility Account or bill (3) a disconnect notice concerning a current or past National Grid Utility Account (4) an invitation from National Grid to attend a Customer Assistance Expo or to meet with or speak to the National Grid Consumer Advocacy Group, National Grid Consumer Advocate, or National Grid Credit Department or (5) the availability of a government assistance program, such as the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), to assist with payments to National Grid, all without the prior express consent of the persons called.
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