ability to litigate their claims against Prudential independently. Weiss Aff. at ¶261. The majority of class members in this case own relatively modest life insurance policies with death benefits averaging $35,000. Id. Also, the class incl ability to prosecute their claims against Prudential individually. See 7A Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller & Mary Kay Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure § 1779, at 557 (1986) (observing that “a group composed of consumers or small investors typically will be unable to pursue their claims on an individual basis because the cost of doing so exceeds any recovery they might secure”); Sala v. National R.R. Passenger Corp., 120 F.R.D. 494, 500 (E.D.Pa.1988); Cumberland Farms, Inc. v. Browning-Ferris Indus., Inc., 120 F.R.D. 642, 648 (E.D.Pa.1988) (<HOLDING>). The class is estimated to encompass millions
holding class action superior where individual claims do not warrant separate suits holding that class action was superior to individual suits where class members had relatively small interests and might not have the wherewithal to bring suit to protect their individual rights holding that an injured person having a possible claim against an insurer who has been made a party defendant to an action for declaratory judg ment possesses the requisite interest to be heard on appeal holding that class action was superior to alternatives where many individuals were injured but no one person may have been damaged to the degree requisite to institute independent litigation holding class action to be superior adjudication method where individual class members had no interest in controlling prosecution of individual actions