Allstate refused. Judge Manners found Allstate in contempt of court and fined the company $25,000 a day until it complied with his order. Allstate still refused. In late 2007, the Missouri Supreme Court followed up by also ordering the insurer to produce the slides. Again the insurer declined, and by the middle of 2008, Allstate had run up more than $7 million in fines. Manners later said he had never seen anything like it in nearly thirteen years on the bench.
