Dad sues PPI cold callers who phoned him 94 times and wins £1000 in court
He was left fuming after he and his wife were repeatedly and wrongly informed they had been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance
Peace at last: Steve Higgins
A dad-of-three who was bombarded with nearly 100 cold calls in two months is one of the first people to successfully claim compensation from a PPI firm.
Steve Higgins, 38, was left fuming after he and wife Gemma, 27, were repeatedly and wrongly informed they had been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance.
Despite telling Synergy Leads Ltd he was not eligible for a payout, he was called 94 times between October and November last year.
He filed a small claims application and invoiced the firm £10 per call.
When the company did not respond he then made a claim for a default judgment at Northampton county court.Synergy Leads Ltd was last week ordered to pay him £940 for the calls, plus £60 costs for making the claim application.
Mr Higgins, of Nottingham, said: “When I tried to call them I was just spoken too very rudely and they would even hang up.“It wasn’t about the money – it was the principle. They were breaking the law because we were registered with the Telephone Preference Service.”
Peace at last: Steve Higgins
A dad-of-three who was bombarded with nearly 100 cold calls in two months is one of the first people to successfully claim compensation from a PPI firm.
Steve Higgins, 38, was left fuming after he and wife Gemma, 27, were repeatedly and wrongly informed they had been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance.
Despite telling Synergy Leads Ltd he was not eligible for a payout, he was called 94 times between October and November last year.
He filed a small claims application and invoiced the firm £10 per call.
When the company did not respond he then made a claim for a default judgment at Northampton county court.Synergy Leads Ltd was last week ordered to pay him £940 for the calls, plus £60 costs for making the claim application.
Mr Higgins, of Nottingham, said: “When I tried to call them I was just spoken too very rudely and they would even hang up.“It wasn’t about the money – it was the principle. They were breaking the law because we were registered with the Telephone Preference Service.”
