Time Warner Cable has to pay woman who received 153 calls over $200,000

Araceli King of Irving, Texas was so annoyed by Time Warner Cable’s robocalls that she went to court over it. She was driven to the extreme after receiving 153 robocalls from the company.

A Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday that TWC will have to pay King, an insurance claims specialist, $229,500. King claimed that she received 153 calls from TWC to her cell phone between July 3, 2013 and Aug. 11, 2014. The calls were meant for someone named “Luis Perez,” who started an account at TWC in 2012 with a phone number that Sprint later gave King.

“She’s happy, not just about the money, but more so that the outcome was in her favor, given how long and how many calls she received and how harassed she felt,” her lawyer, Sergei Lemberg, told ABC News.

Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that TWC had violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, but the company argued that it was not liable since Perez had agreed to receive the robocalls, reports Reuters.

Hellerstein was particularly appalled by the fact that 74 of the 153 calls to King were actually placed after she first sued the company in March 2014. “Defendant harassed plaintiff with robo-calls until she had to resort to a lawsuit to make the calls stop, and even then TWC could not be bothered to update the information in its IVR system,” the judge wrote.

Those 74 calls “particularly egregious violations of the TCPA and indicate that TWC simply did not take this lawsuit seriously,” Hellerstein ruled.

TWC spokeswoman Susan Leepson told Reuters that the company is reviewing the decision.

TWC was acquired by Charter Communications for $56 billion, although the deal hasn’t been made official yet.

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