A woman's request to represent thousands of Kentucky injury victims in an $800 million class-action lawsuit against Allstate Insurance Company was overruled by a judge, according to an article in The Lexington-Herald Leader.
According to reporter Brandon Ortiz, lawyers for Geneva Hager have accused Allstate, the nation's second-largest home and auto insurer, of illegally using schemes and delay tactics to bully car accident injury victims of accepting lowball offers for their pain and suffering.
According to the article, what originally sparked the lawsuit was Hager's nearly two-year ordeal to resolve an accident claim with Allstate. In 1997, after her truck was rear-ended by a truck loaded with firewood, Hager suffered neck and back injuries. Her attorneys argued that Allstate purposely dragged out the claim because it was the firewood-truck driver's insurer.
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