JOIN A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST STATE FARM Released by: JON Web Site: http://www.statefarmstillsucks.com STATE FARM CLASS ACTION SUIT IS UNDERWAY Email: statefarmsuxs@yahoo.com Keywords: state farm class action, statefarmlawsuit, state farm lawsuit, state farm sucks Update Date: 11/8/2006 7:06:22 AM Hits: 153 Descrption:  #### JOIN A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST STATE FARM ##### State Farm suit covers specific customers Question: Is it still possible to file a claim against State Farm Insurance Co. over the use of credit scores to set Hawaii insurance rates? If so, how do I go about it and what forms will I need? Q: I read last week that State Farm was ordered by the court to pay a sum to customers who had auto insurance during a specific period because it used credit ratings to determine rates. Whom do I contact to apply for this money? How much are they supposed to pay back per customer? Answer: Call the law firm of Bronster, Crabtree & Hoshibata at 524-5644 and you'll be able to find out if you qualify for part of the $1.2 million announced settlement from State Farm. It's important to point out that not everyone who is or was a State Farm customer during the past five or six years is part of the class-action lawsuit, said plaintiff attorney Jeffrey Crabtree. "The class action was only on behalf of a specific subgroup of State Farm auto insureds," he said. It "does not apply at all" to people with homeowners or life insurance. Then, an even smaller subgroup comes into play: "It's only people for who were discriminated against after State Farm pulled their credit report and charged them higher premiums because they had bad credit," Crabtree said. State Farm did not check credit reports on thousands of auto insurance customers, he said, while there were thousands of others who had their credit reports pulled, but "have good credit, so they did not get discriminated against." In the end, "We spent a lot of effort on the lawsuit coming up with all the data from State Farm on who had a report pulled, who had bad credit of that list, and who was charged higher than they should have been because of it," he said. If you still think you qualify for a refund, Crabtree said to call him or Janis Fenton and they can check the list of 1,396 names.