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Allstate Adjustor Found Guilty in Fraud Conspiracy

Feb 14 2003 // An insurance adjustor who allegedly defrauded Allstate Insurance Company and several Allstate-insured homeowners who suffered damages during the 1994 Northridge earthquake was recently convicted of federal fraud...

Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze

Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...

Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze

Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...

J.P. MORGAN SETTLES SURETY CASES WITH ALL 11 COMPANIES

Jan 27 2003 // J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has now settled its dispute with all 11 insurance companies that had issued Enron-related surety bonds and will receive approximately 60 percent of the principal amount of $965 million. In...

Calif. DMV Revokes Allstate’s Electronic Access to Confidential Driver Records; Garamendi Supports Decision

Jan 17 2003 // The California Department of Motor Vehicles has revoked Allstate Insurance Company’s electronic access to confidential driver license and vehicle registration information, because the company reportedly failed to...

San Diego Fraud Ring Cracked

Dec 20 2002 // Over $700,000 dollars were paid in claims for two traffic deaths that never occurred in a case that involved phony police reports created in order to process claims, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.An Allstate...

Farmers to Stay in Texas; TDI Resumes Scrutiny of Allstate, State Farm

Dec 16 2002 // A $100 million settlement was reached between the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) and the Office of Attorney General (OAG) and Farmers Insurance Group on Nov. 30, under which Farmers will continue to offer homeowners...

Allstate Prevails in Labor Ruling Prohibiting Agents from Collective Bargaining

Dec 3 2002 // Allstate Corp. emerged victorious in a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board declaring its exclusive agents independent contractors rather than employees – a decision that prohibits collective bargaining,...

Allstate Gets Auto Rate Increase in Louisiana

Nov 26 2002 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission granted Allstate Insurance Co. a $21.9 million auto policy rate increase. The rate hike is the second the company has received in the past nine months. According to the New Orleans...

2001 Market Share For Insurers in Texas

Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...

NAII Says Federal Case Threatens Insurers’ Ability to Use Credit Information

Sep 26 2002 // A U.S. District Court ruling in a federal class-action lawsuit challenging Allstate Insurance Company’s use of credit data in underwriting and rating policies should be reversed because the suit distorts the...

Help for Texas Homeowners from Allstate, UNT

Sep 25 2002 // Allstate Insurance Company and the University of North Texas (UNT) announced the launch of a consumer education Web site, www.insuretexas.org, to help Texans learn about and compare the new homeowners policy forms approved...

Allstate Announces Management, Organizational Changes

Sep 13 2002 // Allstate Corp. announced from its Northbrook Ill. headquarters that Thomas J. Wilson, 44, currently chairman and president of Allstate Financial, will assume the new role of president, Allstate Protection, effective Oct....

Top Three Texas Residential Insurers Under Investigation

Aug 5 2002 // Responding to moves by Farmers Insurance Company to further restrict coverages in homeowners policies it will write in the state, Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor expanded the state insurance department’s...

La. Decides to wait at Least One Month on Allstate Rate Hike Request

Jun 26 2002 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission has deferred action for at least a month on Allstate Insurance Co.’s request for a 19.9 percent rate hike for homeowners and renters insurance, claiming the company had not...

La. Decides to wait at Least One Month on Allstate Rate Hike Request

Jun 26 2002 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission has deferred action for at least a month on Allstate Insurance Co.’s request for a 19.9 percent rate hike for homeowners and renters insurance, claiming the company had not...

Non-adversarial Adjusters Advising Claimants Are Practicing Law, Court Rules

Jun 6 2002 // The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that an insurance claims adjuster who develops a non-adversarial relationship with a person filing a claim and advises that person on settling the claim is practicing law.An adjuster...

Securian Financial, Esurance to Partner

May 29 2002 // St. Paul, Minn.-based Securian Financial Network Inc., a subsidiary of the Minnesota Mutual Companies Inc., announced a partnership with Esurance Inc. to provide Securian’s financial clients with online access to...

Esurance Partners With Provident Credit Union

May 21 2002 // California-based Esurance Inc., a direct-to-consumer personal auto insurance company, and Provident Credit Union recently announced a partnership to provide Provident’s members with online access to personal...

ALLSTATE UNIT MUST PAY $3.8 MILLION

May 13 2002 // A Denton County, Texas, jury ordered Allstate Texas Lloyds to pay actual and exemplary damages of more than $3.8 million in a suit alleging the unit did not pay claims for damage to a home caused by plumbing leaks....