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Appeals Court Won’t Certify Class Action on State Farm’s Diminished Value Formula

Sep 28 2022 // Auto and property insurers in the last three months have settled class-action lawsuits in Southern states alleging the carriers systematically underpaid claims. A federal appeals court in Georgia has decided a similar...

State Farm Agrees to Settle Katrina Claims Lawsuit with Mississippi AG

Sep 19 2022 // Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane Katrina payments to policyholders, leaving the state to compensate homeowners. The settlement says...

State Farm Invests $1.2B in ADT; Adopts ‘Predict and Prevent’ Mindset

Sep 7 2022 // State Farm and ADT, a smart home provider, announced that State Farm will make a $1.2 billion equity investment in ADT, a move that will give the nation’s largest insurer a 15% ownership stake in ADT. The investment...

State Farm to Pay $100 Million to Federal Government for Hurricane Katrina Claims

Aug 25 2022 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and two former claims-adjuster sisters, who more than 16 years ago filed a lawsuit claiming the insurer committed fraud against the government’s National Flood Insurance Program...

State Farm Sues Amazon to Recover New York Homeowner Claim

Aug 23 2022 // State Farm Fire & Casualty is trying to get Amazon to reimburse it for a payment it made to cover damages to the home of one of its New York insureds. State Farm and its insured claim that the damage was caused by a...

State Farm Alleges $2.6M Auto Insurance Fraud by New Jersey Chiropractors, Doctors

Aug 5 2022 // Insurer State Farm is fighting what it says is a fraudulent medical scheme that has been exploiting New Jersey’s personal injury protection (PIP) benefits law since 2014. The insurer is seeking to recover $2.6...

State Farm Settles Alabama Class Action Charging it Underpaid Claims

Jul 29 2022 // Did State Farm Insurance employ a clever device to reduce its payout – sometimes to zero – on thousands of property claims in Alabama? The insurance company has denied underpaying claims and other wrongdoing, but has...

Personal Auto Results Slow to Recover; GEICO, Progressive to Pass State Farm

Jul 19 2022 // With an overall combined ratio in excess of 100 for the first time since 2017, private passenger auto joined homeowners in unprofitable territory last year, prompting carriers to respond with pricing and underwriting...

Analysis: State Farm Wins Again With Better J.D. Power Scores Than GEICO

Jul 18 2022 // When Warren Buffett told Berkshire Hathaway investors that State Farm continues to dominate the large auto insurance carrier landscape during this year’s annual meeting, he was referring to scale rather than customer...

State Farm Drops Support of LBGTQ Awareness Group After ‘Creepy Neighbor’ Campaign

May 25 2022 // After an uproar from conservative groups, State Farm Insurance has dropped its support of a group that said it was battling misinformed opinions on transgender youth. “We support organizations that provide resources...

State Farm Still Wins: Buffett Talks Auto Insurance at Annual Event

May 3 2022 // There wasn’t a lot of talk about auto insurance at this year’s annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, but when the subject came up, Warren Buffett acknowledged the continued dominance of one competitor—a...

State Farm Awards ICT $40K Grant to Promote Education Programs

May 2 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state. ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...

State Farm Awards ICT $40,000 Grant to Promote Education Programs in Texas

Apr 19 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state. ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...

Consumer Group Demands Probe After New York Times Reports on Alleged Bias at State Farm

Apr 4 2022 // A national consumer rights group in late March called on state insurance commissioners to investigate racial bias in claims handling after the New York Times reported on discrimination lawsuits filed against State Farm by...

Consumer Group Demands Probe After Reports of Alleged Bias at State Farm

Mar 29 2022 // A national consumer rights group on Thursday called on state insurance commissioners to investigate racial bias in claims handling after the New York Times reported on discrimination lawsuits filed against State Farm by a...

Florida Appeal Courts Side with Insurers in Attorney Fees, AOB and PIP Cases

Feb 23 2022 // From attorneys’ fees to water damage to reimbursement limits in no-fault auto insurance, Florida appeals courts have sided with insurers in several cases in recent days. Here’s a look: Attorney Fees and Another...

State Farm Sues Tesla For $1.2 Million Over Indiana Car, Garage Fire

Feb 18 2022 // State Farm filed a $1.2 million subrogation claim against Tesla in Indiana federal court on Feb. 16, alleging negligence and strict product liability over a fire that damaged an insured’s car and residence. Two State...

Wisconsin High Court Limits Bodily Injury Coverage to Insured Persons

Feb 17 2022 // An auto insurer is not required to pay underinsured motorist benefits to the son of man who was killed in an auto crash because the father was not insured by its policy, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in an...

State Farm Charges Chiro Clinics with Fraud in Gaming Florida’s PIP Law

Feb 3 2022 // In a federal lawsuit filed this week, State Farm Insurance accuses a chiropractor and his string of Florida clinics of widespread fraud by regularly and falsely claiming that car accident victims needed emergency care, so...

LDI Affirmed in State Farm Hurricane Barry Deductible Case

Jan 11 2022 // A Louisiana administrative hearings panel has ruled that Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon was justified in preventing State Farm from enforcing a hurricane deductible for certain losses caused by Hurricane Barry in July...