State Farm Faces $8.5B Claim 19 Years After Damage Award

(All images, information, and text courtesy of claimsjournal.com. Copyright 2018. All Rights Reserved)

Planning for the caper involved finding the right man for the mission, organizing front organizations to dole out $3.5 million to ensure the job got done, and then creating a disinformation campaign to disguise their handiwork.

This wasn’t the premise of a spy novel. It’s what policyholders allege a unit of State Farm, the biggest U.S. auto insurer, did to get a friendly judge onto Illinois’s highest court so he could overrule a jury that ordered the company to pay $1 billion in damages.

Continuing reading the rest of the article at the source:

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/midwest/2018/09/04/286578.htm