United States Seventh Circuit

In a class action involving tens of thousands of small claims against an insurance company, denial of class certification is affirmed where the necessity of a separate evidentiary hearing for each class member's claim would remove the benefits of class-action treatment since the aggregate expense of the trial would outweigh the value of the small claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2006
• Decided 05/23/2007
• Published 05/23/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vincent J. Moccio (argued), Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael A. Pope (argued), McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.