RICO Case Against State Farm Set for Trial in Illinois Federal Court
State Farm | August 31, 2018
A class-action lawsuit against insurance giant, State Farm, alleging the company recruited a judge to run for an opening on the Illinois Supreme Court and funded, without disclosing it, his 2004 election campaign is set to go to trial in federal court next month. In Hale, et al. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., et al., originally filed in 2012, the insurer faces charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) alleging that it secretly tried to buy the vote of Illinois Supreme Court Judge Lloyd A. Karmeier.