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15 Safest Driving Cities in America

Sep 6 2019 // Brownsville, Texas, has the safest drivers in America for the second year in a row, according to the 2019 Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report. The report ranks the 200 largest U.S. cities by collision frequency...

Allstate CEO Calls On U.S. Corporations to Pay Employees More

Aug 22 2019 // U.S. businesses must focus on creating higher-paying jobs,Tom Wilson, Allstate chair, president and chief executive officer, writes in today’s New York Times.Wilson calls on America’s corporate leaders to...

Allstate Says Q2 Results Reflect Strategy Momentum

Jul 31 2019 // The Allstate Corp. said its second quarter results show that its strategy of increasing its market share in property and liability insurance products while also expanding into other protection products is working.Overall...

Allstate Says 60% of June Insured Cat Losses Came from Texas

Jul 18 2019 // Announcing total estimated catastrophe losses for June, Allstate Corporation attributed 60 percent of those losses to four severe wind and hail weather events that primarily impacted Texas.Allstate estimated catastrophe...

Amenity Analytics Raises $18 Million from Starr, Allstate, Others for Text Analysis Tool

Apr 16 2019 // Starr Companies and Allstate have contributed to an $18 million financing round for Amenity Analytics, a startup developing cloud-based analytics designed to help businesses analyze text on a massive scale.The New...

CSAA in California Names Allstate’s Troy President and CEO

Mar 26 2019 // The board of directors of the CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA insurer, has named Thomas M. Troy to succeed Paula F. Downey as the company’s chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors. The promotion is...

Allstate Buys Smartphone Repairer iCracked, Expanding Its Consumer Services

Feb 13 2019 // The Allstate Corp. said it has acquired iCracked, a provider of on-site, on-demand repair services for smartphones and tablets in North America. The privately held San Francisco-based company will join SquareTrade, a...

Allstate Q4 Catastrophe Loss Tempered by Higher Premiums, Reduced Auto Claims

Feb 8 2019 // The Allstate Corp. lost $312 million in its 2018 fourth quarter, which was attributable to higher catastrophe losses, lower investment income and a pension settlement charge.Catastrophe losses hit $963 million, versus just...

Allstate, State Farm, USAA Sue California Utility Over Wildfires

Jan 8 2019 // Several insurance companies have filed lawsuits blaming Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for a deadly California wildfire that destroyed 14,000 homes and triggered billions of dollars in insurance claims.The lawsuits filed...

Allstate’s Shares Fall Under Weight of Wildfire Losses

Dec 17 2018 // Allstate Corp. tumbled for nine straight days, the longest string of losses since 2001, as coverage costs from the deadliest fires in California’s history are tallied.The company seemed to have “out-sized...

Allstate Says Losses from California Fires $670M, CEO Wants to Address Climate Change

Dec 13 2018 // Allstate this week announced estimated catastrophe losses for the month of November 2018 of $685 million, pre-tax ($541 million, after-tax).Catastrophe losses occurring in November comprised six events at an estimated cost...

Morgan Stanley: State Farm, Allstate Largest Insurers Exposed to Alaska Quake

Dec 3 2018 // State Farm, Allstate and USAA have the lion’s share of exposure from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Alaska on Nov. 30, according to a Morgan Stanley Research brief put out on Monday.The epicenter was...

Allstate Reported to Be Weighing Sale of Fixed-Annuities Business

Nov 9 2018 // Allstate Corp., the automobile and home-insurance giant, is exploring a sale of its fixed-annuities business, which stopped selling new policies about five years ago, people familiar with the matter said.The insurer is...

Allstate Reports $186 Million in Hail, Other Catastrophe Losses in August

Sep 21 2018 // The Allstate Corporation said estimated catastrophe losses for the month of August were $186 million, pre-tax ($147 million after-tax). Catastrophe losses occurring in August comprised 16 events at an estimated cost of...

Allstate: Brownsville, Texas, Has the Nation’s Safest Drivers

Sep 17 2018 // Illinois-based insurer, Allstate, has named Brownsville, Texas, the city with America’s safest drivers. In fact, including Brownsville, five of the top 10 cities with the nation’s safest drivers are in...

Allstate Says Brownsville, Texas, Has the Nation’s Safest Drivers

Aug 30 2018 // Illinois-based insurer, Allstate, has named Brownsville, Texas, the city with America’s safest drivers.The ranking is based on Allstate claims data. The 14th annual Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report...

Allstate to Acquire Identity Theft Protection Firm InfoArmor

Aug 27 2018 // The Allstate Corp. has agreed to acquire InfoArmor, a provider of employee identity protection, for $525 million in cash.The insurer said it sees “significant opportunity to cross sell” the new product through...

How Much Americans Could Save by Choosing Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning Personal Vehicles

Jul 16 2018 // Self-driving cars promise safer roads, less traffic and increased mobility. Some autonomous vehicle proponents also maintain they will save time and money. But will they really save Americans time and money? And even if...

How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning

Jul 3 2018 // Self-driving cars promise safer roads, less traffic and increased mobility.Some autonomous vehicle proponents also maintain they will save time and money. But will they really save Americans time and money? And even if...

Beware ‘Tsunami’ Effect of Artificial Intelligence, Warns Allstate CEO Wilson

Jun 29 2018 // Artificial intelligence is coming for the service economy, according to Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson.“It’s going to rip through this economy like a tsunami,” Wilson said Thursday in...