Hale v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Update: Award payments to eligible class members are expected to commence by the end of October, 2019.

If you were insured by State Farm and had non-OEM crash parts installed on or specified for your vehicle (or received compensation based on the value of those parts) between July 28, 1987, and February 24, 1998, you could get money from a class action settlement.

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit claiming that State Farm, Ed Murnane, and William Shepherd (the “Defendants”) violated the law in an attempt to overturn, in the Illinois Supreme Court, a $1.05 billion judgment in favor of approximately 4.7 million State Farm policyholders, which would allow State Farm to avoid paying the amount of the judgment rendered in plaintiffs' favor in the trial court. The Defendants deny all allegations of wrongdoing, and the Court has not decided who is right.

If you received a postcard notice or a notice in your email, you do not need to take any action to receive a payment (unless you have an Arkansas or Tennessee address). Once the Court approves the Settlement, you will automatically be sent a check in the mail. Those who were not sent notice, or who currently have Arkansas or Tennessee addresses, but believe they are members of the Class, had the option to file a claim online or by mail. The claim filing deadline has now passed.

Your legal rights are affected whether you act or do not act.

These rights and options—and the deadlines to exercise them—are explained on this website.

The Court in charge of this lawsuit still has to decide whether to approve the Settlement. If it does, and after any appeals are resolved, payments will be distributed. Please be patient.