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    [01]_COMPLIANCE

    TCPA Isn't A Compliance Checkbox Anymore. It's Litigation Exposure.

    Through 2025, TCPA lawsuits naming MCA-adjacent callers — brokers, lead sellers, and the shops dialing their leads — rose sharply year over year, and the majority now arrive as class actions rather than single-plaintiff claims. Per-violation exposure runs $500 to $1,500 with no statutory cap on total damages, and a class action multiplies that per-violation number by every call made to every class member on the same dialing campaign. This page lays out the actual exposure a shop is carrying today, before it shows up as a lawsuit instead of a line item.

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    TCPA lawsuits naming MCA-adjacent callers rose an estimated 60-95% year over year through 2025, with roughly 80% of those suits now filed as class actions rather than individual claims. Per-violation exposure runs $500-$1,500, with no statutory cap on total damages across a class.

    TCPA litigation-trend reporting compiled by industry compliance trackers, 2025 — not a Scaler client result.

    [02]_What the exposure actually looks like

    One dialing campaign, multiplied across a class, is how a compliance gap becomes a seven-figure claim.

    • 01Per-violation statutory damages of $500-$1,500 apply to each call found in violation — not each lawsuit. A single campaign that dialed a purchased list without verified consent can generate thousands of individual violations if it's certified as a class.
    • 02Roughly 80% of current TCPA suits against MCA-adjacent callers are filed as class actions, which is the mechanism that turns a per-call number into a claim that can run into the tens of millions rather than a few thousand dollars per plaintiff.
    • 03There is no cap on total statutory damages under TCPA — unlike many consumer-protection statutes, exposure scales directly with call volume and class size, with no ceiling built into the law itself.
    • 04Consent chain is the actual point of failure in most of these suits: a lead purchased from a vendor with unclear or unverifiable opt-in, then dialed by the ISO or broker, puts the liability on whoever made the call — regardless of what the vendor represented about the lead's consent status.
    • 05Plaintiff's firms specializing in TCPA class actions actively monitor MCA-adjacent dialing patterns, which is part of why the surge in suits has concentrated in this vertical rather than being spread evenly across all outbound-calling industries.
    [03]_How it works

    Live in days, not months.

    01

    Audit

    We review your current dialing lists, lead sources, and consent documentation to identify where verified opt-in is missing or unverifiable before a call is made.

    02

    Build the consent gate

    We build automated consent verification into intake, so a lead can't reach a dialer or texting system without a checked, logged consent record.

    03

    Automate suppression

    We wire in do-not-call, litigator-list, and prior-complaint suppression automatically, removing the manual step where these checks currently get skipped under call-volume pressure.

    04

    Run and document

    We keep the consent and suppression system running and maintain the audit trail — the documentation that matters most if a claim is ever filed.

    [04]_What changes

    What changes once consent verification happens automatically, not by memory.

    • Every lead checked against verified consent status before it reaches a dialer or SMS system — closing the specific gap most current suits are built on.
    • Do-not-call, litigator, and prior-complaint suppression applied automatically across every list, not dependent on a rep remembering to check.
    • An audit trail of consent and suppression checks maintained automatically, which is the documentation that actually matters if your shop is ever named in a claim.
    • Compliance built into the dialing process itself, so call volume and speed-to-lead don't have to be traded off against consent verification.
    [05]_FAQ

    Questions, answered.

    Plaintiff's firms that specialize in TCPA class actions actively monitor high-volume outbound dialing patterns, and MCA lead-gen and follow-up calling is high-volume by nature — purchased and aged lead lists in particular carry consent-chain risk that these firms have gotten efficient at identifying and litigating.

    Not necessarily. Liability generally attaches to whoever makes the call, and courts have not treated a vendor's representation about consent as a reliable shield if that consent can't actually be verified. This is the single most common fact pattern underlying current TCPA suits in this space.

    A class action requires a common pattern affecting a group — for example, a single dialing campaign or a single list that was called without verified consent across many recipients. That's exactly the structure of most MCA-adjacent dialing operations, which is part of why roughly 80% of current suits in this space are certified as class actions.

    No — TCPA has no statutory cap on total damages. The $500-$1,500 figure applies per violation, and in a class action that multiplies by every call found in violation across the class, which is why exposure in this category can scale far beyond what a single-plaintiff claim would suggest.

    This page is focused specifically on the litigation exposure — what's actually at risk and why the numbers look the way they do. Our broader automation work covers building the consent verification, suppression, and dialing compliance systems that reduce that exposure day to day.

    Most shops can have automated consent checks and suppression list integration live within a few weeks, since it plugs into existing intake and dialing workflows rather than replacing them outright.
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