The 10 plaintiffs of the Tabor case filed on 5/11/15 are all residents of Tennessee, but they filed the suit in the state of Pennsylvania. This is because the famous suits Romero I[1] & II[2] were filed there. The Romero suit grew from 30 to approx. 430 plaintiffs and was first filed in 2001 and, up until 2015, there was no closure. Finally, the Romero case merged with the Tabor case on 4/18/17 and a settlement was reached on 7/28/17. A bitter-sweet closure for all the plaintiffs involved in the suits. But a heroic one, which has not been recognized by the subsequent agents of Allstate, who generally holds the idea that Allstate is invincible in his legal might; however, they did not know that it was because of these suits, the company had put on hold its intention of instituting a mandatory telephone system on them (which was called AAV: Allstate Agency Voice) and production quota system (which was called ABO: Agency Business Objectives), both of which had been successfully rolled out in 2019-2021. At the time when Allstate initiated the independent contract of captive agent (R3001S) in the year 2000 onwards, it compelled “Exclusive Agents to replace their own telephone and computer systems with new systems leased from Allstate and linked to its centralized system, thereby enabling Allstate to monitor the details of their performance;” (Paragraph 119, Tabor, et al. v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., p. 49.) and imposed “production quotas upon Exclusive Agents and terminating their contracts and agency relationships if those quotas are not reached.” The present-day agents attempted an injunction on the AAV and failed. (See NAPAA, et al. v. Allstate.) But they would not even dare to challenge the ABO in the court due to their belief of the invincibility of Allstate’s legal mignt. In view of these facts, one must salute the heroic acts of those former agents, who had stalled Allstate for 18 years in carrying out the programs of AAV and ABO. Many of the named plaintiffs in the three suits “have suffered from emotional distress, including anxiety, depression and loss of self-worth.” (Paragraph 128, Tabor, et al. v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., p. 52.) The same kind of stories has littered with miseries in the present-day Facebook All Agents Page platform.
[1] Romero, et al. v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., No. 01-3894,
[2] Romero, et al. v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., No. 01-6764.