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Capp Joins Answer Financial to Sign More Business Partners

Mar 30 2016 // Tom Capp has joined the senior management team for the online auto and home insurance agency Answer Financial. Capp, as senior vice president of Business Development, will be working to grow the company’s network of...

Allstate’s Pickford Named InVEST Director, Replacing Retiring Mattis

Mar 18 2016 // Deborah M. Pickford has joined InVEST, the insurance industry’s classroom-to-career education program that is in more than 600 colleges and high schools, as executive director.Pickford will replace Diane Mattis, who...

California Commissioner, Allstate Agree to Homeowner Rate Reduction

Mar 7 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones reached an agreement last month with Allstate Insurance Co. and Allstate Indemnity Insurance to reduce the carrier’s homeowner insurance rates statewide by an average of...

Allstate Moving 400 Tech Jobs to Chicago

Mar 3 2016 // Insurance company Allstate has announced plans to open an innovation hub with 400 employees at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.The Northbrook-based company announced that the 45,000-square-foot office space will house the...

Allstate Rideshare Coverage Approved in California

Mar 3 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a new rideshare insurance product from Allstate Insurance.The Allstate coverage is for for people driving for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft....

California Commissioner, Allstate Agree to Homeowner Rate Reduction

Feb 17 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has reached an agreement with Allstate Insurance Co. and Allstate Indemnity Insurance to reduce the carrier’s homeowner insurance rates statewide by an average of 12.6...

Esurance Wins Super Bowl Social Media Battle

Feb 8 2016 // Advertisers played it safe and light with the most expensive ever Super Bowl ad slots on Sunday, shunning previous years’ attempts to be outrageous, emotional or thought-provoking.Mountain Dew rolled out a creature...

Surge in Auto Claims Dampens Allstate Q4 Profit

Feb 4 2016 // Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. car and home insurer, said fourth-quarter profit fell on a surge in auto claims.Net income declined 41 percent to $489 million, or $1.18 a share, from $824 million, or...

Ex-Allstate Exec Lacher Succeeds Southwell as Kemper President, CEO

Nov 29 2015 // Joseph P. Lacher Jr., 46, has joined Kemper Corp. as president, chief executive officer and a member of the Kemper board of directors.At the same time, Donald G. Southwell, who had previously announced his plans to retire,...

Allstate Profit Down in Q3 as Auto Claims Rise

Nov 4 2015 // Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. car and home insurer, said third-quarter profit slipped 17 percent as claims rose and policy growth slowed in the automobile insurance business.Net income decreased to $650...

Allstate Names Green as President of Encompass Insurance

Oct 29 2015 // The Allstate Corp. has announced that Mark Green named president of the Encompass insurance companies, which sells through independent agents.Green has 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. Last year he was...

Esurance Launches Mileage-Based Insurance Policy in Oregon

Oct 19 2015 // Esurance has launched a new mileage-based insurance offering called Esurance Pay Per Mile, available first to Oregon drivers.Eric Madia, auto products vice president at Esurance, said the through the program customers will...

Esurance Launches Mileage-Based Insurance Policy in Oregon

Oct 7 2015 // Esurance, the direct-to-consumer insurance company, has launched a new mileage-based insurance offering called Esurance Pay Per Mile, available first to Oregon drivers.“Esurance is responding to consumer demand for...

Insurance Company Investors Assess Hurricane Joaquin Damage

Oct 2 2015 // The hurricane strengthening off the U.S. East Coast is buffeting insurance providers as investors assess the possible damages.Losses began to accelerate as Joaquin grew into a Category 4 hurricane, with top winds...

Esurance, Major League Baseball Team Up on New Awards

Sep 16 2015 // Esurance and Major League Baseball are establishing a new awards series that will hand out 24 prizes including best major leaguer, fan catch and social media post.The first-of-its-kind series adds content for MLB’s...

Allstate’s Drivewise Telematics App Adds Shopping Rewards, Challenges

Aug 27 2015 // In addition to offering auto insurance savings to its insureds, the Allstate Insurance mobile telematics app known as Drivewise now allows drivers to earn safe driving points they can spend on merchandise, gift cards and...

Auto Losses Seen Cutting P/C Insurance Profits Until 2016

Aug 10 2015 // The property/casualty insurance industry has made money on its personal lines underwriting since 2013 but that is likely to change in 2015. At the same time, commercial auto insurance should still make an underwriting...

Auto Claims Hit Allstate’s Q2 Results

Aug 5 2015 // Allstate Corp. reported net income fell to $355 million in the second quarter, down from $645 million, as the insurer coped with rising auto claims costs. The Allstate brand suffered an underwriting loss for the...

Firms Interested in Driver Data Collected by Auto Insurers

Jul 24 2015 // The restaurants and doughnut shops that consumers pass on their commute would love to predict when they’ll be driving by. Their auto insurer may already know, and could be looking for a way to profit from that...

North Carolina Man Charged with 8 Counts of Insurance Fraud

Jul 20 2015 // A Raleigh, N.C., man has been charged with eight counts of insurance fraud, eight counts of obtaining property by false pretense, four counts of attempting to obtain property by false pretense and four counts of providing...