Insurance,
Civil Litigation
Nov. 24, 2021
Car insurance customers sue over rates during lockdown
The state insurance commissioner issued an order on April 13, 2020 which required insurers to make a premium refund to policyholders within 120 days. Insurers have since provided a variety of refunds or credits, which the plaintiffs argued are “extremely arbitrary and inconsistent in amount and duration” in their case.
Car insurance customers filed a proposed class action Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, accusing Safeco Insurance of charging excessive premiums amid the pandemic when stay-at-home orders dramatically reduced the rate of traffic collisions.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, government officials began to enforce strict stay-at-home orders in the hope of slowing the spread of the virus. Those orders kept people in ...
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