Company denies 'no-call' violation

FORT WAYNE -- An executive with a company that settled with the state over alleged violations of Indiana's no-call provision is angry that its name appears on a listing of businesses that made illegal calls.\nTim Badgley, the operations manager of New Look Co., said he was shocked when he opened the newspaper last month and found that the company had agreed to pay fines for violating the state's Telephone Privacy Law.\nThe law prohibits most telemarketers from calling telephone numbers on the state's no-call list.\nBut New Look Co. -- just like 79 other businesses listed by the state as making illegal calls -- never admitted breaking the law and was not found guilty of doing so.\nInstead, Badgley said he signed a settlement agreement paying "administrative and investigative expenses" to end the inquiry into seven complaints.\n"We knew we were in compliance because I spent a lot of money to be in compliance," Badgley said. "But my attorney said we could fight it or settle it and save both sides a lot of time, energy and money"