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The first class action against AmerUs Group Co., AmerUs Life Insurance Company, American Investor Life Insurance Company Inc., and their affiliates AmerUs Annuity Group and Family First Insurance Services was filed April 11, 2005. The class action complaint alleges that AmerUs Group Co., a publicly traded company on the New York Stock exchange (AMH), AmerUs Life and its affiliates’ sales practices are in violation of the federal Racketeering Influence Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO; and California’s elder abuse laws.

Federal law is often criticized as being overly complex, but that complexity only reflects the nature of our society. The class has been certified in an action filed against AXA Network, LLC, and the Equitable Life Assurance Society of America on behalf of all current, former, and retired Equitable agents who show (a) lost eligibility for benefits under any Equitable ERISA plan during any period on or after January 1, 1999, because of the application of the policy adopted by Equitable of using compliance with specified sales goals as the test of a "full time life insurance salesman" or (b) remain subject to losing such benefits in the future because of the potential application to them of that policy.

A class action has been filed against seven insurance companies on behalf of residents of Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, who held flood insurance policies and suffered damage to their houses in September 2003 from Hurricane Isabel. The action alleges that the companies violated their contracts by failing to deliver benefits promised to policyholders.

A class action has been filed against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Met Life) Inc., a New York based provider of insurance and other financial services (NYSE: MET) and certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company’s common stock between April 5, 2000 and October 19, 2004. The action claims that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company’s securities. The stockholders seek to recover compensatory damages for the loss of value of their stock.

If the insurance system doesn't work as it should, dentists and doctors can be hurt as badly as their patients. The parties have reached a tentative $5 million settlement in a class action filed against insurer Aetna, Inc. and its subsidiaries on behalf of dentists who alleged that the Hartford-based insurer interfered with dental procedures to cut costs and forced dentists to comply with excessive paperwork in violation of antitrust laws and the federal Racketeering and Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act. Dentists who wish to take part in the settlement will have to fill out a claims form that is to be made available through the mail and on the settlement site that has been established by Aetna.

A Biloxi attorney and homeowners along the Gulf Coast area have filed a class action law suit against State Farm Insurance Company, alleging the company has refused to pay for hurricane damage to their homes, even though the plaintiffs purchased "all perils" homeowner insurance.

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