Oct 25, 2010
National Class Action Status Granted in Conseco Life Insurance Case
In cases involving financial products, it’s pretty tricky to get national class action status. But plaintiffs lawyers going up against Conseco Life Insurance framed their case on behalf of seven policyholders as a breach of contract instead. In doing so, the Gilbert law firm in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco’s Millstein & Associates succeeded in getting national class action status where “many other ‘vanishing premium’ life insurance cases have failed,” said Stephen Weisbrod, a partner with the Gilbert firm.