Resource Life Insurance Co. v. Buckner

Blackburn, Judge.

In this class action, the putative class members are all those individuals who purchased credit life or credit disability insurance 1 from Resource Life Insurance Company and who may be owed a refund from Resource Life for unearned premiums on those policies. 2 The underlying issue in the case is whether Resource Life’s failure to refund unearned premiums constituted a breach of the insurance contract and/or constituted a negligent or wilful breach of a legal duty owed its insureds. Following a class discovery period that exceeded five years and involved numerous discovery…