Article: Minnesota Residents Asked to Join Lawsuit against State Farm Insurance.

By Sheryl Jean, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 25--More than 150,000 Minnesota residents this week should start receiving notices in the mail to join a class-action lawsuit against State Farm insurance company, the largest home insurer in the state and nationwide.

The suit, initially filed a year ago Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis, alleges that the Bloomington, Ill.-based company improperly slapped surcharges of up to 6 percent on certain homeowners' insurance premiums between August 1997 and February 2003 because of the age of the house or its electrical system.

State Farm's ...

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