Varacallo v. Mass. Mut. Life Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding, in consumer context, that \class actions should be liberally allowed . . . under circumstances that would make individual actions uneconomical to pursue\
• holding that an essential element of a common law fraud claim under New Jersey law is that the defendant made a misrepresentation or omission “knowing the misrepresentation to be false or the omission to be material”
• stating that consumer fraud requires proof of causal nexus between concealment of material fact and loss
• explaining that a class-wide inference of reliance is particularly appropriate where \a party makes false representations [] with the intent that they be communicated to others for the purpose of inducing the others to rely upon them\ (quotations omitted)
• “Where [an] omission of fact is common to the entire class, class certification is favored.”
• “Where [an] omission of fact is common to the entire class, class certification is favored.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).