An Illinois appellate court reversed a grant of class certification Friday in a case claiming Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois didn’t decide claims within its deadline or provide proper explanations of benefits.
The effort to certify a class “forced a square peg into a round hole,” Justice Celia Gamrath of the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court wrote. Thousands of claims were potentially covered by the certification.
The named plaintiff, Aleksandra Zieba, didn’t show that common questions predominate within the class, the court found: “She completely ignored the need to present a class-wide damages model and ...