Latest State Farm Headlines
All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
U.S. May Join Lawsuit Claiming Insurers Defrauded Government Over Katrina Claims
Aug 8 2007 // The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing whether to intervene in a lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, a judge who unsealed the case on...
Fla. Gov.Suggests Property Insurers not Following Rate Savings Law
Aug 2 2007 // Gov. Charlie Crist suggested Tuesday that some property insurers may be deliberately flouting a new state law that requires them to buy cheaper reinsurance and pass the savings on to consumers. Crist said he was concerned...
Some Miss. Coast Homeowners Won’t Have to Repay Grant
Jul 24 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
State Farm Settles with Another Mississippi Katrina Victim
Jul 24 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. has settled another lawsuit with a policyholder whose home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. Neither side would release terms of the agreement reached Friday between the insurer and...
State Farm to Drop 50,000 Coastal Homeowners Policies in Fla.
Jul 23 2007 // State Farm Insurance, Florida’s largest private home insurer, said it will drop about 50,000 homeowners policies next year in what it considers risky areas along the coast. Most of the homes and condos that will lose...
Other Mississippians Upset Because they Bothered ‘To Be Responsible’
Jul 20 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Nationwide Settles 10 Katrina Lawsuits in Mississippi
Jul 19 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has settled 10 lawsuits filed by Mississippi homeowners in a dispute over damage from Hurricane Katrina. The settlement was announced Monday by Biloxi attorney Jack Denton. Two weeks ago,...
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Jul 2 2007 // Mississippi poses PR challenge for State Farm and industry It’s the latest version of the Hatfields versus the McCoys but with billions of dollars and an insurer’s, if not an industry’s, reputation at...
