All About ADT Lawsuits

Like many legal questions you have probably asked in the past, the answer is complicated. ADT offers a service and like many big businesses that are service providers, they try to make sure that they protect the best interests of their company.

To do that they include language in your user agreement that usually says you are not allowed to sue them in most types of legal courts. This is designed to reduce the unnecessary amount of lawsuits, and of course the time and money that would go with those lawsuits.

But that doesn’t mean you are out of options. As a consumer you will always have the option to take ADT to a small claims court, or to file a consumer arbitration claim against the company.

We are a little biased, but consumer arbitration is often the easier solution. It’s also the one that we can help you with.

A class action lawsuit is a type of large lawsuit against a company by a group of people, usually hundreds of thousands of people. These people are considered a class or a group and they all have the same complaint against the company.

You might even see an existing class action lawsuit that a group of other people have pending against ADT but unfortunately the wording in your contract will usually specify that you cannot join a class action lawsuit that is existing nor can you start a new lawsuit.

That doesn’t mean you have no options at your disposal, just not that option.

We are FairShake, are reinventing the ADT lawsuit process. ADT complaints are common and most consumers have the same questions about what legal rights they have against the company when something goes wrong.

Rather than trying to pursue an ADT class action lawsuit, which you probably aren’t allowed to do anyway, we will file a personalized legal document for you with ADT and guide you through the legal process.

You have a lot of options when you have a small problem with the company and they haven’t offered a solution. You can file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, you can lodge a dispute with your credit card company, but when it comes to legal issues you have one of two routes you can take:

• The first is you can sue ADT in small claims court, where you will have to present a lot of paperwork, go to a court hearing, and pay the small claims court fees.
• The second is to do everything from the comfort of your home. With consumer arbitration, you can take advantage of one of the legal alternatives that is laid out in your contract. Here you present your case in front of an independent arbitrator who can make the company fix the issue and compensate you. We at Fair Shake help you by making this process simple and convenient.

ADT found itself at the center of allegations over illegal and harassing robocalls. A man stipulated that he had received over 400 robocalls from ADT even after telling the representatives to stop calling him. The plaintiff claimed that when he would answer, it would instruct him to hold for an operator. As a result of the hundreds of calls, the plaintiff claims he “has suffered injuries and harm” that include the following:

1. 1. 1. Invasion of privacy
      2. Intrusion upon and interference with the capacity of his cell phone
      3. Wasting his time
      4. Risk of personal injury because of interruptions and distractions upon receiving ADT robocalls
      5. Depletion of his cell phone’s battery
      6. Cost of electricity to recharge his cell phone’s battery
      7. Stress, aggravation, emotional distress, mental anguish and other similar damages”

Class action settlements have been made for a security hacking lawsuit. In this case, the company settled for $16 million for consumers who used their wireless residential security system. Five separate class action lawsuits were filed in California, Illinois, Florida, and Arizona because their wireless peripheral sensor was vulnerable to a security hack. Allegedly, the flaw would allow hackers to disable the entire system and ADT failed to disclose this vulnerability to their consumers.

Other lawsuits have settled for accusations of illegal debt collection processes used by ADT. The lawsuit is for illegal practices, made by a Florida customer who stated they called her in an incessant and unsolicited fashion, in violation of the TCPA regulations and Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act. According to her lawsuit, ADT “has on many occasions called [Sandy] by telephone directly, multiple times a day, attempting to collect the debt.” The frequency of calls constitutes harassment.