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so class actions need to have questions
of Law and fact that apply equally uh to
every single person who’s a member of
that class for that reason uh cases
involving the application of contracts
like insurance policies is a good
example may be U welld designed for
class actions because the terminology of
that contract is is the exact same for
everyone who buys that insurance policy
cases that involve the application of uh
statutes of written laws and how they
apply to the citizenry may also be a
good uh candidate for class actions the
key is making sure that answering the
important questions for each individual
uh person is exactly the same once we
begin to have a variance of how the laws
apply uh to individual people it becomes
much more difficult to certify class action
Columbia, SC personal injury attorney Graham Newman talks about the types of claims that are good candidates for class certification.