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Class action issues on docket for new Supreme Court term.
Business Insurance, October, 1996 by Hofmann, Mark A.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether participants in a class-action suit can pursue individual actions if they are not satisfied with the award they receive as part of the class action. Adams vs. Robertson is one of eight cases the court agreed to add to the docket for the term that begins today.
The docket left over from the court's last session is one of the lightest in recent history, containing relatively few cases of interest to risk and benefits managers (BI, Sept. 23). That could change today, when the court traditionally agrees to review additional cases. Adams vs. Robertson began in 1992, when a group of policyholders of Liberty National Life Insurance Co., a Birmingham, Ala.-based unit of Torchmark Corp., sued the insurer for...
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