CPI Security Wins $189M Deceptive Practices Verdict Vs. Vivint
A North Carolina court unanimously found Vivint Smart Home responsible for using deceptive door-to-door sales practices to mislead and confuse CPI customers.
A North Carolina court unanimously found Vivint Smart Home responsible for using deceptive door-to-door sales practices to mislead and confuse CPI customers.
Legal expert Ken Kirschenbaum is not prepared to say in-home central station monitoring is deceptive or a dereliction of duty.
The lawsuit asks for a jury trial, an order requiring Vivint to pay an ongoing royalty to Alarm.com of an yet-to-be-determined amount, enhanced damages for up to three times the actual damages, plus attorney’s fees.
Fractus claims instead of obtaining a license for use of the patents, ADT and Vivint have ignored correspondence while continuing to make and install infringing products.
The lawsuit alleges Resideo/Honeywell knew about defects in its burglar and fire alarm system control units but continued to market and sell them.
The lawsuit seeks more than $5 million in response to a ‘defect’ that renders the fire control units non-conforming to the minimum standards required by both UL and NFPA 72.
ShotSpotter filed a $300 million lawsuit against Vice last October for publishing a “misleading and inaccurate story claiming the company alters evidence for law enforcement.”
An investigation was opened after a whistleblower provided the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office with a Safe Haven training manual containing deceptive sales tactics.
Legal expert Ken Kirschenbaum explains why the decision of this ADT lawsuit is likely to come back to haunt the alarm industry for a long time to come.
According to the lawsuit, the Securitas guard on duty failed to activate the building-wide in-unit voice alarm prior to the collapse.