United States Eighth Circuit

In plaintiffs' appeal from the district court’s order denying class certification for a group of California residents who purchased fixed deferred retirement annuities from Northern Life Insurance Company, the order is affirmed where the district court properly determined that class certification was not appropriate because the plaintiffs' claims involved a number of individual issues that could not be resolved on a class-wide basis, including whether defendant misled the plaintiffs about its interest-crediting practices and whether the plaintiffs relied upon any such misrepresentations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2010
• Published 08/12/2010

Judges

• Roger L. Wollman

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel