Legal Opinion
In Re: The Prudential Insurance Company of America Sales Practices Litigation Frank La Marra Giuseppina La Marra Reardon Golinkin & Reed
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 19, 2002No. 01-4085PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs are unnamed members in a nationwide federal class action involving the fraudulent sale of insurance policies by agents of Prudential Insurance Company. The class action was settled in 1997 and has paid out more than four billion dollars to eight million class members through a comprehensive alternative dispute resolution program.
Although plaintiffs have received their full allotment of proceeds under the settlement, they challenged — in state court and under state law — the manner in which the defendant insurance company handled their…
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