Utah Supreme Court lowers $145 Million in Punitive Damages to $9 Million in State Farm Lawsuit

April 26, 2004

  • April 26, 2004 at 6:05 am
    Rich Pyorre says:
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    the lawsuit alledged “it underpaid claims, cheated customers, and destroyed documents”. This case went to the U S Supreme Court and back and State Farm still lost, although it got its punitive damages reduced, it was judged to have done those things alleged! Perjury wasn’t a part of this case but I can prove State Farm Executives have also committed perjury! Rich Pyorre

  • April 27, 2004 at 12:28 pm
    Matt Pickett says:
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    On November 8, 1999, the Business Week, wrote an article titled, State Farm: What’s Happened to the Good Neighbor? In the article there is a section titled, “I have never seen a case disappear like this”. Recently there were two cases, Appling vs State Farm and Pyorre, Weir vs State Farm, if those two cases were reviewed, you would see how the legal system has failed the litigants. It is sad what is going on and what the company is getting away.

  • April 27, 2004 at 1:01 am
    Debbie Kegley says:
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    Well, I also would like to make clear a support service connection contract between State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. & Daniel G. Herns Esq. San Jose, California. Tenet Healthsystem Emergency Department Records show 5 mph rear end collision. Records will show as follows.

    1. Solicitor Daniel G. Herns Esq.

    2. Bilateral L5 spondylolysis with minimal (1+) spondylolisthesis.

    3. C5, C6 degeneration

    Now, this is where I get it in the rear somemore.

    1. Forged my name on the Release and Trust Agreement date August 18, 1998 (guess I was somewhere else huh?)

    2. Brief summary of letter dated July 22, 1998 by Daniel G. Herns, Esq.

    You thanked me for my candor. I do not plant delusions of grandeur in the minds of my clients. I tell them the strong points and the week points in their liability and damage claims. Based on (1) your soft tissue injuries, (2) your history of preexisting back problems, (3) the x-rays showing nothing wrong with your spine, (4) the entirely conservative physical therapy treatment you received, (5) the stinginess of Santa Clara County juries on soft tissue injury cases and the (6) the fact that your treatment was performed at the most unimpreeive medical facility in the county, Valley Medical Center, I evaluated the worth of your case…..

    Yesterday, July 21, 1998 you told me that you refuse to sign the release to effect the end of the claim….I strongly advise you to reconsider. You have no idea what your claim is worth. I do. That is presumably why you hired me. Your are ignoring or disregarding my advice.

    Last but not lease, I had a pretty good indication of intent here from the get go when it came to the advice of distorying records I currently had, don’t talk to the other insurance carrier (WC) Healthnet about the accident, deny me an MRI or additional x-rays before I considered signing off on the claim. Recommending I barter with Valley Medical Center with respect to the billing charges. Then his latest astonisment is that he hopes I get a million dollars because of his support. So, let me get this correct…It’s ok to screw me over good and if I fight hard enough over 9 years, then I deserve to be given an enormous amount of money. This is one example of not capping injury awards until they all get it right and stop the rear ending.

  • April 28, 2004 at 10:23 am
    Concerned says:
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    So, aside from the claim that the company has less-than-ethical practices, the basis, as I understand it, from this couple is that State Farm paid the policy limits that the INSURED SELECTED, and would not, at first, pay the extra. Are we now saying that insurance companies are obligated to pay whatever the insured owes because they wanted to save a few bucks in premium at the onset of the policy and chose a limit of coverage that was too low? Why even offer a variety of limits if the courts are going to just disregard them anyway? This really concerns me, and this is precisely why we have a premium crisis and companies are having to trim their business; too much court interferance. And, how can you really say that the insureds suffered $145 MILLION dollars in mental anguish when the company ended up paying the extra amount afterall?

  • April 28, 2004 at 12:11 pm
    UNCONCERNED says:
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    Read the opinion. State Farm could have settled for policy limits 20 years ago, but it chose to risk its insureds’ assets by going to trial based upon evidence it made up out of thin air. Coverage limits do not exist for State Farm to limit its gambling losses, but that’s what it was doing and still does.



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