Groups Say Parts Suit Is Barred By Federal Law
NU online News Service, July 21, 3:55 p.m. EDT?A combine of industry trade groups is making a legal argument that a class action over insurers' use of generic parts to repair customers' auto damage is impermissible under the federal law giving states the power to regulate insurance.
The insurance organizations, who said "billions" of dollars are at stake, voiced their contentions in a friend-of-court brief filed with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta seeking to overturn a ruling by a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in the case of Gilchrist, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., et al.
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