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Survey: Teens Want Friends to be Safer on Roads

Dec 31 2007 // With motor vehicle accidents claiming between 5,000 and 6,000 teen lives each year, a new survey commissioned by Allstate Insurance reveals that many teens do not take personal responsibility for safe driving and continue...

Allstate Announces Withdrawal From Membership in PCI

Dec 23 2007 // Allstate Insurance, headquartered in Northbrook, Ill., has given notice to Des Plaines, Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) that the company intends to drop its membership in the insurer...

Fla. Gov. Asks Lawyers to Review Suing Property Insurers over Rates

Dec 21 2007 // Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday he wants three trial lawyers to review documents for a possible class-action lawsuit against property insurers, alleging that the industry hasn’t passed on savings to consumers as...

Allstate’s 4th Quarter Catastrophe Losses of $100 Million Higher than ’06

Dec 20 2007 // Allstate Corp. said Tuesday October’s California wildfires plus other disasters have hiked the insurance company’s fourth-quarter catastrophe losses by about $100 million. Allstate said it received more than...

Allstate Incurs More than $300 Million in Southern California Wildfire Losses

Dec 19 2007 // The Allstate Corp. reported that the company has received more than 7,000 claims from the Southern California wildfires in October of this year, resulting in approximately $315 million to $335 million in wildfire-related...

Allstate Announces Withdrawal from National Trade Group PCI

Dec 17 2007 // Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate Insurance has given notice to Des Plaines, Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) that it intends to drop it membership effective December 2008. By-laws of PCI...

Allstate in Deal to Set Up Online Bill-Payments

Dec 6 2007 // Allstate Corp. and Fiserv Inc. said they’ve worked out a partnership to allow Allstate’s customers to receive and pay bills online through their bank, brokerage or credit union’s Web site. The e-bill...

Texans to Plug Into Wind Energy with Help from Allstate

Nov 28 2007 // Two thousand Texas homes are getting wired into the wind grid with a green donation from Allstate Insurance Company. The insurer announced it will provide enough clean, renewable, wind energy to power the equivalent of...

Florida Regulators Deny Allstate Rate Increases

Nov 19 2007 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation issued Notices of Intent to disapprove five rate filings submitted by Allstate Floridian Insurance Co., Allstate Floridian Indemnity Co., Encompass Floridian Insurance Co., and...

Allstate Donates On-line Access of Encarta Africana to Chicago Schools

Nov 19 2007 // Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate Insurance Co. recently announced it had made a contribution of a three year subscription to Encarta Africana to all Chicago Public High Schools. Nearly 500 people turned out at Urban Prep...

It Figures

Nov 18 2007 // $1 Million The amount a federal judge has ordered jailed Alabama outdoorsman Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV to pay to an insurance firm that accused him of filing a bogus post-Hurricane Katrina damage claim for a...

Allstate Cuts West Virginia Home Insurance Rates

Nov 12 2007 // Allstate customers in West Virginia will be paying less for homeowners’ insurance. The company announced last week that West Virginia homeowners with Allstate insurance policies will get an average rate cut of 10...

Calif. Holds Hearing on Allstate’s Auto Rates

Nov 6 2007 // California’s Department of Insurance held hearings yesterday on Allstate Insurance Co.’s auto rates in San Francisco. The consumer group Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights argued that the company is...

Insurers Used Variety of Resources to Reach Out to Fire Victims

Nov 4 2007 // In the midst of the blazing wildfires that overwhelmed seven Southern California counties in October, insurance companies sprung into action. Most said they had learned from past catastrophes and that preparation was key...

Liberty Mutual to Re-quote 3,305 Dropped Coastal Home Policies in N.Y.

Nov 1 2007 // Some 3,305 coastal residents in New York whose homeowners insurance policies had not been renewed by Liberty Mutual partly because they did not have other policies with the company – such as life or automobile...

Ratings Roundup: Triad Guaranty, Allstate and Affiliates

Oct 26 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has placed its ‘AA’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Triad Guaranty Insurance Corp. and its ‘A’ counterparty credit rating on Triad...

Bottom Line: Allstate’s Aggressive Personal Lines Strategy Paying Off

Oct 17 2007 // When a series of killer hurricanes walloped the Gulf Coast in 2005, costing Allstate Corp. a record quarterly loss of $1.55 billion, the company tried to make sure its bottom line would never be hit so hard again. The...

Texas District Judge Allows Allstate Texas Lloyd’s Rate Increase

Oct 17 2007 // On Oct. 15, Travis County District Judge Margaret Cooper ruled in favor of Allstate Texas Lloyd’s in the company’s quest to preserve an already-implemented homeowners rate increase. Cooper granted the...

Florida Subpoenas Allstate Over Home Insurance Rate Increases, Industry Ties

Oct 16 2007 // Florida officials have subpoenaed Allstate Insurance and its subsidiaries to get the insurer to explain why it is not lowering homeowners insurance rates in the state and to defend its dealings with the industry’s...

Ky. Jury Rejects $1.4 Billion Case Involving Allstate

Oct 12 2007 // A jury in Lexington, Ky., ruled in favor of Allstate Insurance Co., in a lawsuit brought by a woman who challenged the insurance giant’s claims procedure. The jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday afternoon...