Ward v. Dixie National Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting retroactive application of statutes potentially implicates the Contract Clause, the Takings Clause, and the Due Process Clause
• upholding admission of expert testimony on damages that relied in large part on spreadsheets created by defendants
• affirming class certification despite some individual damages inquiries when “the formula for damages was identical for all class members”
• affirming class certification despite some individual damages inquiries when “the formula for damages was identical for all class members”
• collecting cases and describing the federal presumption against retroactivity as “among the most venerable of the judicial default rules,” a “time-honored presumption,” and a “rule of general application”
• affirming the trial court’s finding that a common damages measure predominated individual damages calculations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).