Putative Class: Insurer Violated Long-Term Insurance Policy By Increasing Premiums

(September 3, 2020, 1:29 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An insured on Aug. 31 filed a class action complaint against an insurer in a federal court in Illinois, alleging that the insurer breached its long-term care insurance policies by increasing premiums without increasing the premiums for all of its other insureds who were in the same premium class, further contending that the insurer's "brochure, outline of coverage, and policy further create an enforceable expectation that future increases in premiums and purchases of additional coverage would not take place if the automatic benefit increase option for inflation protection is purchased" (David Sieving, et al. v. Continental Casualty Company, No. 20-05127, N.D. Ill.)....