Public Storage Wins Consumer Insurance Class Trial

Public Storage didn’t have a policy of misleading consumers into believing they were required to buy insurance from the company for their storage units, a state court held Feb. 21.

The judgment in favor of the company came down after a rare class action bench trial. The court certified the case as a class action with an estimated 700,000 members in May 2018.

The individual plaintiffs testified that storage agents didn’t provide all of the disclosures required by California insurance law to prospective renters, but “did not offer evidence of systemic violations,” Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl wrote for the California ...