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Welcome to the
Farmers Insurance Exchange
and Affiliates Total Loss Settlement
(Last Updated June 28, 2007)
A Fairness Hearing was held on April 16, 2007 where the Court granted final approval of this settlement.
If you are a Settlement Class Member and wanted to be eligible to receive benefits from the Settlement, you must have completed and submitted a Claim Form to the Settlement Administrator. The deadline for submitting timely claim forms was June 15, 2007. All Claim Forms postmarked after June 15, 2007 will be marked as late.
If you fall within the following definition of the Settlement Class and submitted a timely claim form, you may be eligible to receive benefits from the proposed Class Action Settlement:
All persons in the United States who, from January 28, 1989 through the date of preliminary approval of this proposed settlement,1 (a) insured a private passenger automobile, truck or van with gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or less, under an auto insurance policy issued by one or more of the Carriers; (b) made a first party claim of property damage or unrecovered theft under said policy; (c) were informed by the Carrier that the vehicle had been declared a total loss; (d) the Carrier had requested a valuation from CCC Information Services, Inc., or its predecessor, Certified Collateral Corporation, ("CCC"); and (e) the insured was tendered a payment from the Carrier for the totaled vehicle.
Excluded from this Settlement Class are the following persons:
(1) Officers, directors, and employees of the Carriers, CCC, and Class Counsel;
(2) Members of the Nevada state court judiciary and their immediate families; and
(3) All persons who have timely elected to opt out of or exclude themselves from the Settlement Class in accordance with the Court's Orders.
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The Carriers referred to above include Farmers Insurance Exchange and its affiliates listed
HERE.
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1 Preliminary approval was granted on January 20, 2006.
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