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Woman Sues Canadian Cellular Provider for Revealing Affair in Bill

By Eric Lipman

Via Overlawyered comes this story from the Toronto Star, about a woman who claims that Rogers Wireless ruined her life. The woman, Gabriella Nagy, had a Rogers cellphone account in her maiden name. The bill came to the address she shared with her husband, who was the named account holder on the home's cable service, also provided by Rogers. When Rogers consolidated the bills into a single monthly statement, Nagy claims, her husband opened it, noticed that there were a bunch of long calls to a particular number, and became suspicious. "Nobody does business this way and he's not stupid," says Nagy, who is in her 30s. He called the number, [and] spoke to the "third party" who confirmed the affair, which had lasted only a few weeks, Nagy told the Star. "My husband didn't tell me that's how he found out, he just left." So Nagy is suing Rogers for $600,000 (Canadian, presumably, though these days, what's the difference?) for invasion of privacy and breach of contract. Rogers, for its part, said, in a very Canadian way, "Are you f'ing kidding me?": In a statement of defence, Rogers denies it terminated the contract and says the company 'cannot be...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).