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The latest class action developments and trends in the insurance industry, including news, key cases, and strategies.

COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions

May 14, 2020 by Carlton Fields

Over the last month, there have been numerous lawsuits across the country by policyholders seeking insurance coverage for losses they claim are resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last two weeks, the new trend has been to file these claims as class actions. Several of the nation’s top plaintiff-side class action law firms have filed class action lawsuits seeking coverage for nationwide classes of policyholders. These cases have been filed all over the country ... Keep Reading »

Forewarned Is Forearmed: Why Companies Need to Review Their COBRA Notices to Avoid Growing Class Action Trend

March 30, 2020 by Carlton Fields, Elise Haverman, D. Matthew Allen and Cathleen Bell Bremmer

Even before the current pandemic crisis, we have noticed a growing trend in the filing of class action lawsuits challenging, under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), notices required to be issued by covered employers regarding continuation health care coverage available to employees and their beneficiaries under a variety of circumstances, including involuntary or voluntary job loss. We believe that trend will only accelerate in the wake of ... Keep Reading »

Eleventh Circuit Takes Life Insurance Reinstatement Claims at Face Value for CAFA Amount-In-Controversy Purposes

January 8, 2020 by Darnesha Carter and D. Matthew Allen

The Eleventh Circuit recently examined the application of the $5 million amount-in-controversy requirement under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) to disputes over life insurance premiums and policies. It concluded that the face value of a surrendered or lapsed life insurance policy constitutes the amount placed in controversy when the plaintiff requests reinstatement of the policy as equitable relief for asserted claims. In Anderson v. Wilco Life Insurance Co., ... Keep Reading »

Report on Current Class Action Issues Plaguing Life Insurers

October 21, 2019 by Brooke Patterson

As Justice Hugo Black said in 1944, “Perhaps no modern commercial enterprise directly affects so many persons in all walks of life as does the insurance business.” Even so, the evolving threat of class action lawsuits brings heightened concerns for the life insurance industry. And as shown by the prevalence of life insurance class actions over the past years, class actions against life insurers come in all shapes and sizes. In “Class Action Roundup,” Carlton Fields ... Keep Reading »

Through the Looking Glass: Damages “Warts” Wreck Injunction Class

September 26, 2019 by Gary M. Pappas and Raina T. Shipman

Mirror, mirror on the class, are damages what you really asked? The Eleventh Circuit reversed an interlocutory order certifying an injunction class, rejecting the plaintiffs' ploy "to lop off all the damages-based warts and recast their claim as one for injunctive relief under Rule 23(b)(2)" after their attempt to certify a damages class was denied. The decision underscores the importance of looking beyond face value to determine whether the relief requested is truly ... Keep Reading »

Plumbers Overcome Spokeo-Based Standing Blockage in Putative TCPA Class Action

February 27, 2018 by Carlton Fields

The Northern District of Illinois cleared the way for a plumbing company’s putative TCPA class action against Allstate Insurance Company and Oh Insurance Agency by denying defendants’ motions to dismiss, which were inspired by the Supreme Court’s Spokeo v. Robins decision. The plumbing company alleged that the insurance companies committed TCPA violations when they placed two phone calls to it: one went to voicemail and another was answered by a company employee. The ... Keep Reading »

Individualized Inquiries and Difficulties Identifying Class Members Doom Title Insurance Reissue Rate Class Action

August 23, 2017 by D. Matthew Allen

The District Court of Idaho recently decertified a title insurance reissue rate class action, finding the initial justifications for class certification have “not withstood the test of time.” Under the Idaho Rate Manual, customers are entitled to a 50 percent discount when a title policy is issued within two years of a previous policy on the same property by the same owner. Seven years ago, the court granted class certification for a class of Idaho residential customers ... Keep Reading »

What are Interim Class Counsel and When Should They be Appointed?

February 9, 2017 by David L. Luck and D. Matthew Allen

Even before certification of a class under Rule 23(a)-(b), the district court has authority to appoint “interim counsel” under Rule 23(g)(3) “to act on behalf of a putative class before determining whether to certify the action as a class action.” However, as the District of New Jersey recently explained, “neither the federal rules nor the Advisory Committee Notes expressly” state the analysis used to determine when “interim counsel” should be appointed and which counsel ... Keep Reading »

Eleventh Circuit’s Liberal Reading of Bonner Mall a Game Changer for Class Actions?

July 29, 2016 by Carlton Fields

An Eleventh Circuit panel recently vacated two district court orders after sending the parties to mediation, and after the parties’ conditioned settlement on vacatur of the orders. In Hartford Casualty Insurance Company v. Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Company, after being ordered to mediation a second time by the appellate panel, the parties reached a settlement contingent on the district court’s vacating its orders on summary judgment and attorney’s fees. On ... Keep Reading »

2016 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey Reveals Important Trends in Class Action Management

March 22, 2016 by Chris S. Coutroulis and Julianna Thomas McCabe

The fifth annual edition of the Carlton Fields Class Action Survey has just been released, and in this year’s survey corporate counsel report that class action spending has increased after four consecutive years of decline. Spending is also projected to increase in 2016. This marks a key turning point. The Numbers Across industries, the companies surveyed report that they spent $2.1 billion on class action lawsuits in 2015. The number of companies facing at least one ... Keep Reading »

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