A judgment was entered against an insurance firm.
The $1,886,635 judgment was entered against the Farmers Insurance Exchange by a U.S. District Court judge in Oregon in another of a series of cases involving alleged breach of contract and other improprieties in the now-disbanded Criminal Investigation Department, created by Farmers in 1981 to uncover insurance fraud. Judge Robert T. Belloni, saying that Farmers had destroyed, concealed and otherwise withheld documents pertinent to the lawsuit, awarded the money to Diamond Claims & Investigation Services and its proprietors, Peter J. and Shirley Diamond, of Coos Bay, Ore.
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