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Article: State Farm loses diminished value court battle in Georgia
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- Automotive Body Repair News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. Apr 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Superior Court judge orders insurer to tell policyholders that they may be entitled to additional compensation
Because of a recent court ruling, Georgia repairers no longer have to worry about taking the heat from customers who complain that their vehicles are worth less money after they have been in an accident.
Following Georgia Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Pullen's Dec. 1 decision, State Farm now has no choice but to consider paying Georgia policyholders for first-party inherent diminished value (DV) claims. The class action lawsuit Rudine Mabry, Maurice J. Cardenas et al. vs. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., was filed in June 2000 in The Superior Court of Muscogee ...