Progressive Wins Class Status Appeal in Totaled Car Value Case

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday reversed certification of a class of Indiana drivers insured by Progressive Corp. subsidiaries, finding that a jury would have to consider several individual questions to resolve claims that the cash value of their totaled vehicles were too low.

The district court rested its class certification decision on an “erroneous legal conclusion about the duties contained in Progressive’s standard-form Indiana auto insurance policy,” Judge Amy J. St. Eve of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said in the opinion.

Progressive Paloverde Insurance Co. and Progressive Southeastern Insurance Co. provide individuals the actual ...