State Farm and Safelite have doubled down on their attempts to end the ongoing lawsuit against them by LYNX Services. The two companies recently filed documents in support of their motions to dismiss the alleged trade secret misappropriation suit.
LYNX filed suit against State Farm, as well as Safelite Group and its subsidiary Safelite Solutions, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois on July 27, 2025. LYNX alleged that the insurer and rival TPA misappropriated certain trade secrets from LYNX’s METRYX system.
After more than a year of litigation, LYNX filed a first amended complaint on July 14, and both State Farm and Safelite moved to dismiss shortly thereafter. LYNX responded to that motion on Aug. 17, and both defendants have replied to that rebuttal.
State Farm’s Stance
State Farm filed a redacted document on Aug. 24, arguing that LYNX’s rebuttal is insufficient . The document claims that not only does LYNX continue to fail to prove that the information in question is a trade secret, but that the information it provides proves the opposite.
“LYNX has pleaded itself out of court,” the State Farm filing says. “Its baseless claims against State Farm must be dismissed with prejudice.”
The document repeats State Farm’s ongoing allegation that LYNX does not own the State Farm Company Directory information held within its METRYX registry. It claims LYNX’s trade secret arguments aren’t valid because they focus on the alleged misuse of METRX. State Farm alleges LYNX’s counts against the insurer don’t allege it misused the entire METRYX registry and algorithm.
State Farm also claims that much of the legal precedent cited in LYNX’s rebuttal doesn’t apply in this lawsuit and that LYNX never specified to State Farm that the information in question was confidential.
“LYNX fails to allege specific facts sufficient for the Court to infer that any of this information is a trade secret that was misappropriated by State Farm, because it can’t,” the State Farm document concludes. “Lynx is stuck with the unambiguous language in the agreements. Lynx fails to state a plausible claim for relief.”
State Farm requests that the counts against it be dismissed with prejudice.
Safelite’s Arguments
Safelite Group and Safelite Solutions’ filing maintains that any alleged trade secret misappropriation has nothing to do with the national auto glass repair and replacement provider or its third-party administrator.
“LYNX’s claims against Safelite – the alleged recipient of such unremarkable information – are plainly inadequate,” the document says. “LYNX does not allege Safelite ever accessed or received LYNX’S METRYX database, any LYNX ‘proprietary algorithm’ or any LYNX ‘process.’”
Safelite’s filing argues that LYNX’s unfair competition allegations are insufficient and are based on “unsupported (and unfounded) antitrust buzzwords regarding supposed ‘exclusionary and predatory practices’ and ‘immense control over the market.’”
The document also claims that LYNX still has not provided a sufficient reason for Safelite Group to be grouped with Safelite Solutions in the lawsuit and that LYNX’s concerns are focused on the TPA rather than Safelite Group.
Safelite requested that the court dismiss the counts against it with prejudice.
Get it in to discovery phase and you will learn a lot more. GO LYNX!