State Farm's corporate headquarters. (Photo: CJ Hanevy/Shutterstock.com)
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has scrapped five combined lawsuits filed by auto-body repair shops accusing State Farm Insurance and several other insurers of conspiring to punish shops that didn't cooperate with its alleged scheme to fix prices and use substandard replacement parts.
|No price-fixing
Eight of the nine judge en banc panel agreed that the repair shops' complaints didn't rise to the level of price-fixing and group-boycotting under the Sherman Antitrust Act, agreeing with a trial judge who dismissed the actions in 2016.
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Greg Land
Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.
