Halvorson, et al. v. Auto-Owners Ins. Co., et al., No. 12-1716 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs filed a class action suit against Auto-Owners, alleging breach of contract and bad faith. On appeal, Auto-Owners challenged the district court's certification of a class for those policy owners whose policies were issued in North Dakota. The court reversed, concluding that the certified class did not meet the predominance requirement of Rule 23 where the reasonableness of any claim payment may have to be individually analyzed and, therefore, the district court abused its discretion in certifying the class.
Court Description: Civil case - Class actions. The district court abused its discretion when it certified a class where individual issues will predominate, and the plaintiffs' claims should not have been certified as a class action.
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