Insurance
May 10, 2011
Fight Over Farmers Settlement Continues
Farmers Group Inc. is trying to block a consumer rights group from conducting unusual post-settlement discovery in connection with $545 million settlement of a long-running class action.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Farmers Group Inc. is fending off an unusual push by a consumer rights group to conduct post-settlement discovery as the group tries to determine whether a $545 million agreement the insurer has reached with plaintiffs' lawyers benefits consumers.
Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog, representing a class member who is objecting to the proposed settlement, is seeking to depose Farme...
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