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State Farm Racketeering Trial Starts This Week

September 4, 2018 By CollisionWeek Editor

The 2012 lawsuit alleges auto insurer recruited and bankrolled successful candidate for Illinois Supreme Court to overturn 1999 $1.18 billion non-OEM parts ruling.

Plaintiffs in a 2012 lawsuit that alleges State Farm Automobile Insurance company recruited and bankrolled the successful candidacy of an Illinois Supreme Court Justice in 2004 so that he would overturn a $1.18 billion judgement over non-OEM parts, will have their day in court starting this morning. The jury trial was scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. this morning before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis, Ill.

The suit,

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