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Allstate Drops Mobile-Home Coverage along South Carolina Coast

Feb 22 2010 // An Allstate spokesman says the company will no longer insure mobile homes along the South Carolina coast. Shane Robinson told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach for a story Saturday that about 2,400 existing customer policies in...

Allstate Selects San Antonio for New Customer Call Center

Feb 10 2010 // Allstate Insurance Company said it will open an $11.6 million customer information center in San Antonio, Texas, and is planning to hire 600 employees as part of that move.Allstate vice president of direct sales and...

Water, Wind and Hail Common Claims in Texas; Liability Costly for Individuals

Jan 27 2010 // Water, wind and hail damage top the list of most common homeowner insurance claims in Texas, according to a review by Allstate Insurance Company of aggregated insurance carrier claims data.Allstate assessed data from 2000...

Mississippi Rejects Allstate Rate Hike

Jan 8 2010 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator, as he earlier indicated he would do, has denied a request from Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. for a statewide home insurance price hike of about 60 percent.The...

Best Affirms Allstate New Jersey ‘A-‘ Ratings; Outlook Stable

Dec 23 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Group and its members. The outlook for all...

Allstate to Auction Recovered 1965 Volkswagen Van

Dec 16 2009 // Allstate announced today that it will sell a recovered 1965 Volkswagen bus at auction and donate the proceeds to Lydia Place, a nonprofit organization in Washington state serving homeless women and children impacted by...

Ratings Roundup: First Colonial, Mount Carroll, Cherokee

Dec 15 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to ‘A-‘ (Excellent) from ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating to “a-” from “a” of Florida-based First Colonial...

Rhode Island Fines Allstate Over Consumer Choice in Car Repair

Dec 14 2009 // Rhode Island regulators have fined a major insurance company $5,000 for allegedly interfering with a driver’s right to choose his own garage for repair work.The Department of Business Regulation determined that...

Lacher to Head Allstate’s P/C Division

Nov 17 2009 // The Allstate Corp. has named Joseph P. Lacher, Jr., 40, as president of Allstate Protection, effective November 30, 2009. He will lead all of Allstate’s property and casualty offerings, “serving over 17 million...

Allstate Reports Q3 Profit

Nov 6 2009 // Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, reported a third qarter profit Wednesday, the improvement from a year ago loss made possible by lower catastrophe and investment losses.Net income was...

Watch Out for Boo! Texas Pedestrian Accidents Jump 23% at Halloween

Oct 30 2009 // On average, the number of Texans hit by cars spikes 23.3 percent during Halloween week, according to Allstate Insurance Company.The insurer recently looked at its Texas auto insurance claims involving pedestrians over the...

Analysts Forecast Healthy Q3 Reports from Insurers

Oct 22 2009 // If the stock market and weather are any indication, third-quarter earnings reports from insurers will look a lot better than they did a year ago.The big companies, which began their reporting season today with Travelers...

Declarations

Oct 19 2009 // Bigger, Hungrier“Large brokers enjoy certain advantages of scope and scale. At least in theory, their costs are lower, and they are able to provide a broader array of services. But small brokers are the engines of...

Allstate Agents Petition IRS for Review of Independent Contractor Status

Oct 19 2009 // The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) has published and is distributing a petition to the Internal Revenue Service, written by an unidentified Allstate agent, questioning whether Allstate has...

Allstate Agents Challenge IRS Over Independent Contractor Status

Oct 19 2009 // The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) has petitioned the Internal Revenue Service, questioning whether Allstate has lived up to the promise it made in 2000 to make its agents true independent...

Declarations

Oct 19 2009 // Mud Flows After Fires“After the smoke has cleared from any wildfire, there is still the potential for catastrophic damage and losses to homes and neighborhoods when winter storms come. Most homeowners policies do not...

Allstate Agents Petition IRS for Review of Independent Contractor Status

Oct 8 2009 // The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) has published and is distributing a petition to the Internal Revenue Service, written by an unidentified Allstate agent, questioning whether Allstate has...

Allstate to Stop Paying Living Expenses for Some Louisiana Customers

Sep 25 2009 // Allstate Insurance will no longer pay emergency living expenses for about 16,000 of its coastal homeowners in Louisiana who have wind and hail coverage through another carrier.The change affects about 10 percent of...

Newest Florida Carrier, Prepared Insurance, Targets ‘Older’ Homes

Sep 23 2009 // Florida has given the go-ahead to a new homeowners insurance company that plans to focus on what it says is the underserved market of homes built before 2002.Prepared Insurance Co., headquartered in Tampa, intends to use...

Allstate to Close Mississippi Claims Office; Employees Offered Transfers

Jul 24 2009 // Allstate Insurance will close its Mississippi phone-claims center by Oct. 30, eliminating 63 local jobs.The claims center in Ridgeland has been in operation for about 30 years. Allstate spokesman Mike Siemienas says 33...