Some customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. claim the company conspired to help elect an Illinois Supreme Court candidate so he could vote to throw out a $1 billion award against the company. Now they will be able to bring their case as a class action (Hale v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 2016 BL 306190, S.D. Ill., 12-660, 9/16/16).
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois ruled Sept. 16 that 4.7 million State Farm policyholders can band together to sue the insurer for allegedly lying about its efforts to financially back Lloyd ...
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