Legal Opinion
Fua Mai Jiang v. Allstate Insurance
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 21, 2001No. 00 C 5357PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*269 MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BUCKLO, District Judge.
The named plaintiffs in the putative class action are minority residents of the Northern District of Illinois and insureds of Allstate. Fua Mai Jiang and Joe Jiang had a car that burned in August 1999. They were covered by Allstate, but, after a special investigation conducted by the firm of Condon & Cook, using a Chinese language interpreter, Allstate denied their claim, purportedly because of discrepancies in the stories the Jiangs told about who first noticed the fire. Martin and Martha Vera are Hispanic, and had a policy with Allstate.…
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