IN RE ALLSTATE INS. CO. UNDERWRITING AND RATING

MDL No. 3:02-md-1457.

917 F.Supp.2d 740 (2008)

In re ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY UNDERWRITING AND RATING PRACTICES LITIGATION. This Memorandum Refers to: Named Plaintiffs Patty Funderburk and Cassietta Whitfield.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

November 14, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Bowdoin , Douglas Bowdoin , P.A., Orlando, FL, Howard Finkelstein , Finkelstein & Krinsk, LLP, San Diego, CA, Rod Bowdoin , Darby, Peele, Bowdoin & Payne, Lake City, FL, Ron Parry , Parry, Deering, Futscher & Sparks, P.S.C., Covington, KY, Terry Alan Smiljanich , James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich, P.A., Tampa, FL, Kenneth S. Canfield , Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Atlanta, GA, Charles A. McCallum, III , McCallum Law Firm, L.L.C., Vestavia Hills, AL, R. Scott Jackson, Jr. , Nashville, TN, Alexander Thomas Stubbs , Office of A. Thomas Stubbs, Decatur, GA, Gordon Ball , Ball & Scott, Knoxville, TN, James C. Shah , Natalie Finkelman Bennett , Scott R. Shepherd , Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLC, Media, PA, John W. Trimble, Jr. , Trimble & Associates Washington Professional Campus, Turnersville, NJ, Lisa M. Mezzetti , Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC, Thomas C. Jessee , Jessee & Jessee, Johnson City, TN, Benigno Trey & Quot Martinez, III , Martinez, Barrera & Martinez, L.L.P., Brownsville, TX, Suzanne M. Schwarz , Law Offices of Suzanne Schwarz, P.C., Harlingen, TX, David A. Szwak , Bodenheimer, Jones & Szwak, Shreveport, LA, Curtis W. Hitt , Paragould, AR, Dawn Adams Wheelahan , New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs.

Andrew B. Campbell , Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Garry K. Grooms , Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Nashville, TN, Bradford K. Burdette , Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP, Dallas, TX, Carl R. Nelson , Fowler, White, Boggs & Banker, P.A., Tampa, FL, Claire Shows Hancock , Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, Little Rock, AR, Jeffrey Lennard , Jennifer A. Barrett , M. Keith Moskowitz , Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Albert E. Hartmann , Roger L. Longtin , Michael O'Neil , Peter J. Donoghue , DLA Piper US LLP, Chicago, IL, Judy Y. Barrasso , Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman, Sarver, LLC, Glenn Paul Orgeron , Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, LL, New Orleans, LA, Rene O. Oliveira , Roerig, Oliveira & Fisher, L.L.P., Brownsville, TX, Richard R. Hays , Alston & Bird LLP, Kenneth S. Canfield , Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Atlanta, GA, Roger D. Higgins , Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP, Dallas, TX, Brian P. Brooks , O'Melveny and Myers, LLP, Washington, DC, Frederick J. Lewis , Lewis, Fisher, Henderson, Claxton & Mulroy, LLP, Memphis, TN, Tim Boe , Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, AR, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM

ALETA A. TRAUGER, District Judge.

Pending before the court is the defendant Allstate's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings and to Dismiss or Strike Class Allegations. (Docket No. 838.) For the reasons discussed below, the defendant's motion will be granted in part and denied in part.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In March 2005, plaintiff Patty Funderburk's husband, Carl, asked an Allstate agent for a quotation...

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