Law360 | State Farm Asks 11th Circ. to End Vehicle Valuation Suit

Dan Diffley and Melissa Quintana are mentioned for representing State Farm in a class action before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Dan Diffley and Melissa Quintana are noted for representing State Farm in a class action before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

A&B Abstract: When litigating in federal court, government agencies are not exempt from the rules of discovery.  The Eleventh Circuit reminded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) of this in its recent decision CFPB v. Brown, et al., No. 21-14468 (11th Cir. 2023).  There, the Court affirmed a district court’s sanctions order dismissing the CFPB’s claims […]

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Dan Diffley and Melissa Quintana are noted for successfully representing State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. in a class action filed in Georgia federal court in a case challenging State Farm’s practices for calculating actual cash value on total-loss claims. 

A&B Abstract: In Daniels v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 14013 (11th Cir. May 24, 2022) a panel of the Eleventh Circuit addressed the question “whether a required monthly mortgage statement that generally complies with the TILA and its regulations can plausibly be a communication ‘in connection with the collection of a […]

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