Latest State Farm Headlines
All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Declarations
May 7 2007 // Did Lott settle for lots? “We are pleased to have reached a tentative agreement to settle Senator Lott’s claim and to have avoided litigation that might have been lengthier and more expensive for both...
Declarations
May 7 2007 // Declarations Elephant in room “State Farm’s intentional mishandling of the slab cases has been the elephant in the living room from day one in the post-Katrina insurance debacle.” Attorney Richard...
News Currents
May 7 2007 // State Farm has resolved 99 percent of all Katrina-related claims filed by policyholders. Sen. Lott settles Katrina claim with State Farm U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R – Miss., has agreed to settle the lawsuit he filed...
Miss. AG Suit, MetLife P&C Settlement Latest Katrina Claims Developments
May 3 2007 // Plaintiff attorneys at the Scruggs Katrina Group, headed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, said they have brokered an out-of-court settlement for 34 Met Life Property & Casualty policyholders in Mississippi...
Jones Named to State Farm’s Chairman’s Council
May 3 2007 // Greg Jones, senior vice president of State Farm’s California operations, has accepted a promotion to the Illinois-based corporation’s thirteen-member Chairman’s Council effective May 1. The...
Proposal Would Give La. AG Muscle in Insurance Disputes
Apr 30 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood didn’t wait long to take on the insurance industry for denying the claims of thousands of policyholders after Hurricane Katrina. Less than a month after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm...
Sen. Lott Settles Katrina Claim with State Farm Before Trial
Apr 29 2007 // U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R- Miss., has agreed to settle the lawsuit he filed against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for refusing to cover Hurricane Katrina’s damage to his Gulf Coast home, an attorney for the...
News Currents
Apr 23 2007 // State Farm begins promised review of Miss. Katrina claims The State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it...
News Currents
Apr 23 2007 // Katrina homeowners’ lawyers cite e-mails as proof against State Farm E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to...
News Currents
Apr 23 2007 // Katrina homeowners’ lawyers claim e-mails as evidence E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to blame damage on...
State Farm to Reduce Auto Rates in Ill. by 6 Percent
Apr 20 2007 // State Farm will reduce auto insurance rates an average of 6 percent in Illinois effective May 14, the company said in a statement this week. Premiums will dip by an average $40 a year statewide, though amounts will vary...
Nationwide Agrees to Readjust 500 Miss. Katrina Claims
Apr 20 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said. The so-called...
Judge Vows He’s Still Open to Mass Settlement of State Farm Katrina Claims in Miss.
Apr 18 2007 // A federal judge said this week that his “door is open” to a mass settlement of disputed insurance claims in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, but he won’t endorse a proposed class-action settlement of...
State Farm Begins Reevaluation of Mississippi Katrina Claims
Apr 13 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it reached last month with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George...
Lawyers: E-mails Help Them Prove Homeowners’ Katrina Cases
Apr 12 2007 // E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to blame damage on flooding so that it could make minimum settlements with...
Declarations
Apr 9 2007 // Third denial “These lessons confirm the reasoning of my decisions on the plaintiff’s previous motions for class certification and inevitably lead me to the conclusion that there are as many differences between...
Declarations
Apr 9 2007 // Third denial “These lessons confirm the reasoning of my decisions on the plaintiff’s previous motions for class certification and inevitably lead me to the conclusion that there are as many differences between...
Travelers Retreats from Confrontation over SBA Loans in La.
Apr 4 2007 // One insurance company is dropping a claim in Louisiana that getting Small Business Administration loans cancels policyholders’ right to sue if they feel their insurance payments are too low, and another company may...
State Farm Settles Another Katrina Claim Lawsuit in Miss.
Mar 30 2007 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has reached another settlement with a Mississippi Gulf Coast couple who sued the insurer over damage to their home from Hurricane Katrina. State Farm spokesman Phil Supple told The...
Sen. Lott Undecided Whether to Settle or Go to Trial On Katrina Claim
Mar 26 2007 // U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for refusing to cover Hurricane Katrina’s damage to his Gulf Coast home, said last week that he is weighing a settlement offer from the company...
