Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that causation could be satisfied if the record permits an \inference of common reliance” to the class where the information \would have been material to any reasonable person” purchasing the insurance policy
• stating that “[njeither case, however, is authority for the proposition that annuities are goods or services under the CLRA”
• noting that “the respective statutes of limitation [for UCL and CLRA claims], will probably run from the time a reasonable person would have discovered the basis for a claim”
• noting that the fact that “a defendant may be able to defeat the showing of causation as to a few individual class members does not transform the common question into a multitude of individual ones”
• distinguishing Caro because here “there is no evidence any significant part of the class had access to all the information the plaintiffs believe they needed before purchasing [the product]”
• statute of limitations for a UCL claim “will probably run from the time a reasonable person would have discovered the basis for a claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).