Farmers Claims Investigators Get Class Certification In Overtime Case

Three hundred Farmers Insurance claims investigators have been conditionally certified as a class in their quest to prove they shouldn’t be exempt from overtime. US Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte said she would let the investigators send notice to three groups of Farmers employees — special investigators, general special investigators and senior investigators — inviting them to opt into the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Farmers, despite prior litigation, continues to misclassify investigators as exempt from overtime pay.