SMITH v. STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO.

No. B136688.

113 Cal.Rptr.2d 399 (2001)

93 Cal.App.4th 700

Elizabeth SMITH et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

As Modified November 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Robinson, Los Angeles, and Cheong, Denove, Rowell, Antablin & Bennett, John D. Rowell, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Los Angeles, Sanford Kingsley and Thomas E. McDonald, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent United Services Automobile Association.

Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP, Los Angeles, Gary L. Fontana, and Hilary N. Rowen, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent 20th Century Insurance Company.

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, LLP, La Jolla, Paul Alexander, Vanessa Wells, and James R. Knox, Palo Alto, for Defendants and Respondents State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Indemnity Company and California Casualty Insurance Company.

Barger & Wolen, LLP, Irvine, Kent Keller, Steven H. Weinstein and John C. Holmes, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau.

Morrison & Foerster, LLP, John P. Olson, Los Angeles; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Raoul D. Kennedy, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents Farmers Insurance Exchange, and Safeco Insurance Company of America.

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Paul E.B. Glad, San Francisco, and John L. Williams, for Defendants and Respondents Colonial Penn Auto Insurance and Colonial Penn Madison Insurance Company.

Robert M. Wright, Costa Mesa, William J. Moran, Mission Hills, and John K. Beckley, Newport Beach, for Defendant and Respondent Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club of Southern California.


CROSKEY, J.

In this class action, the representative plaintiffs1 allege that the defendant insurers2 conspired together to require their customers, who sought liability coverage on multiple vehicles, to either purchase uninsured motorist coverage for each vehicle or waive it as to all vehicles. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendant insurers claimed...

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