Farmers Insurance Exchange Claims Representatives' Overtime Pay Litigation Mdl v. Mdl’s Empirical Analysis

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6 district · 5 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) The phrase “directly related to management policies or general business operations of his employer or his employer’s customers” describes those types of activities relating to the administrative operations of a business as distinguished from “production” or, in a retail or service establishment, “sales” work.... (b) The administrative operations of the business include the work performed by so-called white-collar employees engaged in “servicing” a business, as, for [] example, advising the management, planning, negotiating, representing the company, purchasing, promoting sales, and business research and control.... (c) As used to describe work of substantial importance to the management or operation of the business, the phrase “directly related to management policies or general business operations” is not limited to persons who participate in the formulation of management policies or in the operation of the business as a whole. Employees whose work is “directly related” to management policies or to general business operations include those [sic] work affects policy or whose responsibility it is to execute or carry it out. The phrase also includes a wide variety of persons who either carry out major assignments in conducting the operations of the business, or whose work affects business operations to' a substantial degree, even though their assignments are tasks related to the operation of a particular segment of the business.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 109 F. Supp. 3d 1273 - Boyd v. Bank of America Corp. · 944 F. Supp. 2d 738 - Quintiliani v. Concentric Healthcare Solutions, LLC

2. “insurance claims adjusters generally meet the duties requirements for the administrative exemption ... if their duties include activities such as interviewing insureds, witnesses and physicians; inspecting property damage; reviewing factual information to prepare damage estimates; evaluating and making recommendations regarding coverage of claims; determining liability and total value of a claim; negotiating settlements; and making recommendations regarding litigation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fenton v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · 109 F. Supp. 3d 1273 - Boyd v. Bank of America Corp.

3. “[i]nsurance claims adjusters generally meet the duties requirements for the administrative exemption”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 154 Cal. App. 4th 164 - Harris v. Superior Court