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Insurance Customers Concerned about WA Referendum Letters

Oct 22 2007 // Some Washington customers of State Farm insurance say a letter from the company about Referendum 67 seemed more like a threat than voter information. “Referendum 67 could cost your family as much as $205 a year in...

Some Auto Insurance Rates to Drop in Mississippi

Oct 17 2007 // State Farm Mutual Insurance, the largest writer of automobile coverage in Mississippi, will lower its rate on Nov. 12, while Allstate’s rates will go up. State Farm will drop its rates an average of 3.6 percent. The...

Texas Administrative Judges Reject State Farm’s Proposed Hike

Oct 9 2007 // Two administrative law judges in Texas rejected State Farm’s plan to increase homeowner insurance rates, calling the hike too excessive in a proposed decision issued Oct. 5. State Farm Lloyds Inc. had appealed to the...

Maine cop hit by stolen police car covered

Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...

Maine cop hit by stolen police car covered

Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...

Court says database alone not sufficient in determining reimbursement costs

Oct 8 2007 // The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., noting that the insurer’s exclusive use of a computer database to determine reimbursements of medical costs was...

Florida Couple Accept Settlement in Lawsuit Against State Farm

Oct 6 2007 // A lawsuit in a Mississippi court over Hurricane Katrina damage ended last week with a settlement between the insurance company and the Florida couple. It was the first Katrina-related insurance case to be brought in a...

State Farm Reduces Fla. Rates Again, Saves Policyholders $23 Million

Oct 3 2007 // State Farm Insurance implemented an additional 2 percent rate reduction for Florida policyholders, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. The rate reduction comes on the heels of a 7 percent State Farm...

Maine Court: Deputy Injured by Own Police Car Covered by Personal Policy

Sep 25 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...

Court Says Database Alone Can’t Decide Medical Reimbursement Costs

Sep 25 2007 // The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., noting that the insurer’s exclusive use of a computer database to determine reimbursements of medical costs was...

State Farm Honors Wis. Resident at Women Awards Presentation

Sep 25 2007 // Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm Insurance recently honored exceptional women across the country during the Embrace Life Awards luncheon held in New York City. Each year the Awards recognize five remarkable women who...

State Farm Settles 103 Katrina Cases in Mississippi

Sep 19 2007 // State Farm Insurance Cos. has settled with 103 policyholders in Mississippi who challenged the company’s refusal to cover damage to their homes from Hurricane Katrina, a lawyer for the homeowners said Monday. Terms...

Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans Hears Katrina Case

Sep 7 2007 // Policy language that a major insurance company invoked to deny Gulf Coast homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina is at the center of a case that was scheduled for a hearing Sept. 6 in a federal appeals court in...

Insurer Doesn’t Have to Pay for Miss. Pastor’s Sex Charge Defense

Sep 6 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. does not have to pay to defend the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth of Jackson, Miss., from a civil lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001 in her home, a...

Attorney Scruggs facing contempt charges over State Farm documents

Sep 3 2007 // Prosecutors charged prominent Mississippi attorney Richard F. Scruggs and his law firm with criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. The prosecutors requested that the court schedule an arraignment in...

Attorney Scruggs facing contempt charges over State Farm documents

Sep 3 2007 // Prosecutors charged prominent Mississippi attorney Richard F. Scruggs and his law firm with criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. The prosecutors requested that the court schedule an arraignment in...

State Farm to expand in La.

Sep 3 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reported that State Farm would resume writing new homeowners insurance policies in Louisiana’s coastal parishes on a limited basis for homeowners customers who...

Court affirms flood exclusions in La. property policies

Aug 20 2007 // Two federal appeals court rulings in early August in class-action lawsuits stemming from Hurricane Katrina-related property damage in Louisiana underscored the validity of flood exclusions in property insurance...

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Aug 20 2007 // Court affirms flood exclusions in La. property policies Two federal appeals court rulings in early August in class-action lawsuits stemming from Hurricane Katrina-related property damage in Louisiana underscored the...

State Farm to Write More Homeowners Insurance in La.

Aug 15 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that beginning Aug. 15, 2007, State Farm will resume writing new homeowners insurance policies in Louisiana’s coastal parishes on a limited basis for...