A New York federal court certified a consumer class alleging Geico General Insurance Co. breached insurance contracts by improperly withholding some parts of auto coverage.
The class, certified by Judge Dora Irizarry of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Saturday, consists of policyholders earning “actual wages” of more than $2000 per month who say Geico wrongly calculated their insurance benefits for injuries stemming from car accidents.
The judge held that the plaintiffs’ claims “not only arise from the same course of events, but rest on similar legal arguments regarding the premature exhaustion of insurance ...
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