Allstate Insurance Company v. Michael Plamb

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that proportionally discounting the attorneys’ fee award was not an abuse of discretion
• finding that circumstantial evidence that defend- ants participated in a scheme to defraud insurance companies was enough to prove intent for mail fraud
• acknowledging that defendants had limited roles but nevertheless finding they “participated in managing the enterprise with their supervisory roles in their respective parts of the scheme.”
• concluding proximate cause was satisfied in a similar case because the “[t]he objective of the enterprise was to collect from insurance companies; . . .Allstate’s paying up was not just incidental but was the object of the collaboration.”
• holding damages from a similar insurance-fraud scheme not speculative
• proximate cause is present where the injuries asserted were the “objective of the [RICO] enterprise”

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