A recent decision out of the Eastern District of Virginia, Matthews v. Senior Life Ins. Co., provides a helpful reminder that TCPA complaints do not satisfy Rule 8’s pleading standard if they do not plausibly link the defendant to the making of the calls or texts at issue — even if there is no dispute that the calls concerned the defendant’s goods or services. No. 24-1550, 2025 WL 1181789 (E.D. Va. Apr. 22, 2025).
In Matthews, the plaintiff allegedly received three scripted telemarketing calls asking qualifying questions about life insurance offered by the defendant, Senior Life Insurance Company (SLIC). Id. at *1. The plaintiff alleged that the questions were the same each time and, during one of those calls, he was connected to and then spoke with an SLIC employee. Id.