Welcome to the Heaton v. Motor Vehicle Assurance Settlement Website

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Worcester Division

Heaton v. Motor Vehicle Assurance LTD., Case No. 4:17-cv-40169-TSH

• Update: The Court held the Final Approval Hearing on June 9, 2020 in the Donohue Federal Building in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Court granted Final Approval on June 9, 2020. At this time the distribution date is unknown.
• A settlement will provide $419,000.00 to pay Cash Awards to all called persons by Motor Vehicle Assurance that were sold a Sunpath, Ltd. product at any time between December 18, 2013 to September 30, 2019 that were called on a cellular telephone or while they were on the National Do Not Call Registry for at least 30 days. We project that individual Cash Awards will total about $200.00.
• The Settlement resolves a lawsuit claiming that Defendant Motor Vehicle Assurance and Defendants National Auto Protection Corp. and Sunpath, Ltd. (the “Non-Settling Defendants”) violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227, by making nonconsensual calls to cell phones offering the sale of a Sunpath, Ltd. product or by calling phone numbers that were on the National Do Not Call Registry for at least 30 days.
• Your legal rights are affected whether you act or don’t act.  Review the details of this settlement website carefully.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS IN THIS SETTLEMENT
OBTAIN PAYMENT	Class Members must submit a claim for payment by May 4, 2020. Otherwise, you will give up rights without an opportunity for a payment.
EXCLUDE YOURSELF	If you ask to be excluded, you will get no payment. This allows you to pursue your own lawsuit at your expense against Motor Vehicle Assurance and other Released Parties about the legal claims in this case.
OBJECT	Write to the Court about why you do not like the Settlement.
GO TO A HEARING	Ask to speak in Court about the fairness of the Settlement.

• These rights and options - and the deadlines to exercise them - are explained on this website.
• The Court in charge of this case still has to decide whether to approve the Settlement. Payments will be made if the court approves the settlement and after any appeals are resolved.  Please be patient.