California Lawsuit – Short Insurance News Update California homeowners are turning to the courts in a fight over what they say is more than just insurance policies gone awry. Two separate lawsuits accuse major insurers like State Farm, Farmers, and others of colluding to push policyholders onto California’s FAIR Plan, a last-resort insurance pool that delivers bare-bones coverage at premium prices. Here’s the crux of the argument. The lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles County, allege that insurers deliberately scaled back coverage and dropped customers in wildfire-prone areas. The FAIR Plan,…
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Judge Throws Out Class Action Claiming State Farm Undervalued Home Repairs
Federal Court Dismisses State Farm Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Undervaluation of Property Damage Claims A recent decision by a federal court has brought closure, at least for now, to a contentious legal battle against insurance giant State Farm. The dismissal of a class action lawsuit alleging systemic undervaluation of property damage claims in Pennsylvania marks a significant moment in the ongoing debate over insurance claim handling practices and the software tools that power them. At the heart of the dispute was Xactimate, the widely used software for estimating repair…
Read MoreState Farm Life Insurance must pay $34M class-action plaintiffs, federal appeals court
The 8th US Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling that policyholders in Missouri must be repaid. State Farm Life Insurance must repay Missouri policyholders more than $34 million for having charged them undisclosed fees, ruled the 8th US Court of Appeals. The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 25,000 policyholders back in 2016. The plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit were people who had purchased policies from State Farm Life Insurance between 1994 and 2004. The lawsuit alleged that the insurer’s policy premiums were said to be…
Read MoreInsurance giants Allstate and State Farm file fraudulent billing suits against healthcare providers
The two carriers have each filed separate lawsuits against medical doctors and their clinics. Two U.S. insurance giants have each filed a lawsuit against medical doctors as well as the pain management clinics of those healthcare providers. The doctors and clinics have been accused of submitting bills to the insurers for unnecessary medical procedures conducted on victims of vehicle crashes. The lawsuits are against both the clinics and the doctors who own them and provide healthcare there. One of the two insurance giants, Allstate Insurance, filed a lawsuit in the…
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