RUSTY RENDON v. PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

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Plaintiff

  • Name: RUSTY RENDON
  • Filing date: August 5, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
  • Website: www.pennmutual.com
  • Industry: Commercial & Professional Services
  • Summary: The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, commonly referred to as Penn Mutual, offers life insurance for financial professionals, individuals and businesses.

Case Summary

On August 5, 2021, RUSTY RENDON filed a complaint in California against PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Plaintiff RUSTY RENDON alleges that www.pennmutual.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Penn Mutual was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in

600 Dresher Rd, Horsham, PA 19044, USA.

It is estimated to have 3,500 employees and $3,700,000,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website pennmutual.com is ranked 19,084 in the United States and 91,294 worldwide.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 16, 2021 and ‘HikeOrders Accessibility Enabler’ was detected. Typically overlays, or widgets, apply the third-party’s source code to the existing code of the host website in an effort to change the user experience by overriding or adding to the existing code. Overlays are often added instead of manually identifying or resolving accessibility barriers in a website’s code and design, which would generally occur during an audit or test from an accessibility subject matter expert. By not addressing the underlying cause of accessibility barriers, the effectiveness of overlays has been debated. There has also been an increase in the number of lawsuits against websites that use third-party overlays.