Latest State Farm Headlines
All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Miss. State Farm $50 million settlement falters
Mar 26 2007 // Some of the lawyers who helped negotiate a proposed settlement affecting some 36,000 claims with State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage have withdrawn their request for a federal judge to approve the...
Class Action for Miss. Katrina ‘Slab’ Claims Denied a Third Time
Mar 26 2007 // In his decision to again disallow a class action suit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. regarding “slab” claims from damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter Jr. said he...
Miss.: State Farm Settles Fourth Katrina Lawsuit in a Month
Mar 22 2007 // State Farm settled out of court with a Biloxi couple whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage was scheduled to be tried next week in federal court, a lawyer for the homeowners said Tuesday. Terms were not...
In Miss., Dale Moves In with State Farm Settlement as Scruggs Withdraws
Mar 21 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 Mississippi policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and “make millions of dollars available” for additional payments, Mississippi...
Settlement Reached in Miss. Homeowner’s Case Against State Farm
Mar 19 2007 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. avoided the court room and possibly days of litigation by settling out of court with a D’Iberville homeowner who sued the company after Hurricane Katrina reduced her house to a...
Miss. Commissioner: State Farm to Reopen Katrina Claims
Mar 19 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale said he has convinced State Farm to reopen and readjust all Hurricane Katrina claims in the Mississippi coastal counties upon request of policyholders. He said State Farm has...
Request Withdrawn for Judge to Approve Miss. State Farm Settlement
Mar 14 2007 // Some of the lawyers who helped negotiate a proposed settlement with State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage claims withdrew their request Monday for a federal judge to approve the multimillion dollar...
State Farm announces $1.2 Billion mutual auto policyholder dividend
Mar 12 2007 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. recently announced it will pay $1.25 billion in dividends to its mutual auto insurance policyholders in 46 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian province of New...
Figures
Mar 12 2007 // 135 The number of homeowners in Alabama’s Fairhope-Daphne area whose policies were set to be non-renewed by State Farm Insurance but are expected to have their coverage retained. State Farm had notified the Alabama...
Judge Senter weighs binding arbitration in Miss. State Farm Katrina settlement
Mar 12 2007 // U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr., the federal judge weighing competing plans to resolve thousands of disputed claims in Mississippi against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. after Hurricane Katrina, held a hearing...
Settlement in Katrina Lawsuit Over Damage to Miss. Rental Home
Mar 8 2007 // A federal trial ended abruptly Tuesday when State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. settled out of court with a couple who sued the company over Hurricane Katrina damages to a rental home they own. U.S. District Judge Peter...
State Farm CEO Gets 82% Pay Raise
Mar 7 2007 // State Farm Insurance’s chairman and CEO received an 82 percent raise after the company posted a record profit last year, a statement from the Bloomington-Ill.-based insurer said this week. Chairman and Chief...
Judge Weighs Miss. Katrina Class Action, State Farm Settlement
Mar 2 2007 // A federal judge weighing competing plans to resolve thousands of disputed claims against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. after Hurricane Katrina heard emotional testimony Wednesday in Gulfport from Mississippi...
Judge Senter Won’t Remove Self from State Farm Class Action Case
Mar 1 2007 // A federal judge in Gulfport, Miss. has refused to disqualify himself from hearing a bid to certify a class-action lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. over the insurer’s handling of claims after Hurricane...
