Hanke v. American International South Insurance

Kerry Hanke (plaintiff) filed a class action lawsuit against American International South Insurance Company (defendant) and alleged breach of contract and fraud claims. Plaintiff accuses defendant of engaging in a fraudulent scheme that included defendant contracting with third-party vendors to provide defendant with biased, below-market estimates of total-loss-vehicle values. A vehicle is declared a total loss if the cost to repair exceeds the actual cash value of the vehicle. Plaintiff claims that defendant used these estimates, which were arrived at by using valuation reports generated by…