Legal Opinion
Fairbanks v. Farmers New World Life Insurance
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 13, 2011No. B216742PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CROSKEY, J.
Plaintiffs and appellants Pauline Fairbanks and Michael Cobb appeal from an order denying their motion for class certification in their action against Farmers New World Life Insurance Company and Farmers Group, Inc. (collectively, Farmers). Plaintiffs’ action alleges violations of the unfair competition law (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200; henceforth UCL)1 in connection with Farmers’s marketing and sale of universal life insurance policies. The trial court denied the motion for class certification on the basis that common issues did not prevail, specifically concluding that…
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