Farmers Insurance Exchange and Farmers Group Inc. have been ordered to pay back more than $115 million in "service charges" that were tacked on to consumers' insurance policy premiums. "These service charges were just additional premiums with a different name," said Timothy G. Blood of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, attorney for the plaintiffs in the class action suit. Consumers who bought car insurance through Farmers Insurance Exchange were given the option of buying a one-month policy, but if they took this option they were charged a $60 or $96 per year "service charge" in addition to the premium.....
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