Latest State Farm Headlines
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State Farm Dropping Auto Rates in Louisiana by 2.5%
Jun 5 2008 // State Farm insurance says it’s lowering auto coverage rates in Louisiana by an average of 2.5 percent at the end of June. The company says that represents an annual savings of $22.4 million to its customers. State...
Fitch Affirms State Farm’s ‘AA+ Ratings; Stable Outlook
Jun 4 2008 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed its ‘AA+’ Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) ratings on State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company and State Farm Life and Accident Assurance...
Dispute Between State Farm and Texas Goes On
Jun 2 2008 // State Farm Insurance does not have to refund consumers some $650 million in alleged overcharges while its dispute with Texas regulators over homeowner rates is reviewed. A state appeals court ruled the insurer was denied...
Auto Insurers Seek to Attract Latinos
Jun 2 2008 // Majority of advertising appearing in Spanish language media Automobile insurers are hungering for the Hispanic market’s premium dollars, according to a new report by Hispanic Market Weekly that analyzed marketing and...
Oregon Collision Shops Give State Farm High Customer Service Marks
Jun 2 2008 // State Farm and smaller Northwest insurers are among the best at taking care of customers after an accident. Some larger insurers — Progressive, Allstate, Safeco and Farmers Insurance — are among the worst. That was the...
Miss. Approves 2.9% State Farm Auto Insurance Rate Cut
May 28 2008 // In less than 30 days, a number of Mississippi automobile insurance policyholders could see a premium rate reduction of up to an average of 2.9 percent as the result of a rate filing approved by Commissioner of Insurance...
Rate Dispute Between State Farm and Texas Regulators Continues
May 27 2008 // State Farm Insurance does not have to refund consumers some $650 million in alleged overcharges while its dispute with Texas regulators over homeowner rates is reviewed. A state appeals court has ruled the insurer was...
Oregon Collision Shops Give State Farm High Customer Service Marks
May 27 2008 // State Farm and several smaller Northwest-based auto insurers continue to be among the best at taking care of their customers after an accident. And some of the other larger, best-known insurers –including...
Mississippi Lawyer Ordered to Release Records to State Farm
May 19 2008 // A federal judge has ordered Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to turn over policyholder records to State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. within 15 days. Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm is entitled to...
State Farm Files Request for California Rate Increase
May 19 2008 // Reflecting the general upward trends in the cost of property and liability insurance claims, State Farm General Insurance Co. has filed a request for an average statewide 6.9 percent rate increase with the California...
State Farm Faces Class Action Lawsuit
May 15 2008 // A class action lawsuit was filed in U.S. Federal Court, Central District, alleging that State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is enriching itself with payments rightfully belonging to its insureds in violation of...
State Farm Files Request for California Rate Increase
May 9 2008 // Reflecting the general upward trends in the cost of property and liability insurance claims, State Farm General Insurance Co. has filed a request for an average statewide 6.9 percent rate increase with the California...
Katrina Plaintiff Lawyers Deny Infiltrating State Farm Database
May 1 2008 // A team of plaintiffs lawyers that includes a former high-ranking federal prosecutor denies infiltrating an insurance company’s computer database to help build a case against the insurer after Hurricane...
Judge in Mississippi Rejects Fraud Claim against State Farm in Katrina Suit
Apr 23 2008 // A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims of fraud in a key Hurricane Katrina lawsuit that accused State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. of using different engineering reports to deny a Mississippi couple’s insurance...
State Farm Nonrenewing Some Jersey Shore Policies
Apr 22 2008 // A major insurer is telling some Jersey shore customers that their home insurance policies will not be renewed. State Farm Insurance Company says it is trying to limit its exposure of catastrophic property loss. The company...
Texas Regulators Explain State Farm Homeowners Rate Hike
Apr 14 2008 // In its “Straight Talk About Insurance” column on its Web site, the Texas Department of Insurance has updated information on the decision to approve an increase in State Farm Insurance Company’s homeowners...
Appeals Court Vacates $1 Million Award in Mississippi Katrina Case
Apr 10 2008 // A federal appeals court threw out a $1 million punitive damage award Monday to a Mississippi couple who sued the nation’s largest insurance company over Hurricane Katrina damage. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Mississippi: Insurer Wants Sisters to Pay for Providing Katrina Claims Records to Scruggs
Apr 10 2008 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. wants a federal judge to sanction two sisters who secretly copied Hurricane Katrina claims documents and gave them to a Mississippi lawyer whose clients were suing the company. Cori and...
State Farm Restricts Storm Coverage for Coastal Alabama
Mar 21 2008 // Reacting to Gulf Coast hurricanes and potential future storm losses, State Farm said it will limit coverage in Alabama for new policies in Mobile and Baldwin counties beginning April 1. State Farm, based in Bloomington,...
Financial Reports Show Texas Insurers Profitable in 2007
Mar 14 2008 // In 2007, Texas insurers recorded one of their most profitable years of the decade, prompting some consumer advocates to call for tougher state regulation on homeowner rates. Financial reports released by the Texas...
