All the headlines from our Allied Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2006 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is appealing a landmark court decision in the first trial to challenge insurers for refusing to cover billions of dollars in damage from Hurricane Katrina’s storm...
Nov 20 2006 // A federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss. couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in Gulfport after Hurricane Katrina spawned hundreds of...
Nov 19 2006 // Miss. couple denied new trial on Katrina storm surgeA federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss., couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in...
Nov 17 2006 // A federal judge has ruled that a Gulf Coast couple can sue their insurance agent for negligence after he allegedly allowed their flood insurance policy to lapse only days before Hurricane Katrina wrecked their home.Michael...
Nov 14 2006 // GoodWorks Insurance, a new insurance ageny that gives half of its profits to local non-profits in accordance with a unique charitable contract, is expanding its business model to permit its use by established insurance...
Nov 13 2006 // Nationwide Insurance said it will seek arbitration in its effort to increase homeowners rates after being turned down by state regulators for an increase that would have been more than 70 percent on average.The company...
Nov 3 2006 // A federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss. couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in Gulfport after Hurricane Katrina spawned hundreds of...
Oct 19 2006 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has issued a notice of intent to deny a request by Nationwide Insurance Company of Florida to increase residential property insurance rates by a statewide average of 71.5...
Oct 3 2006 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s board of governors appointed an interim president this week and also voted to hold a national search for a permanent replacement for Robert Ricker, who resigned a week ago...
Oct 3 2006 // Thousands of protesters gathered this past weekend at a landmark Paris tower once lined with asbestos to demand a nationwide lawsuit against those who allowed workers to be exposed to the hazardous substance.Relatives of...
Sep 15 2006 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has scheduled public hearings for Sept. 19 and 26 on rate filings submitted by Nationwide Insurance Company of Florida, United Services Automobile Association, USAA...
Sep 14 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Health Plans, an affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. that provides health insurance in Ohio and California, will begin cutting about 350 jobs next year, a spokesman for the larger...
Sep 4 2006 // On Aug. 15, 2006, a decision was handed down in the first post-Katrina insurance lawsuit to go to trial. Because there are thousands of lawsuits raising the same claims with millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake,...
Aug 16 2006 // Representatives of State Farm Insurance Co. are on a media tour in Mississippi to give a more positive image to the company as it and others in the industry fend off lawsuits filed in the aftermath of Hurricane...
Aug 15 2006 // In a highly anticipated ruling in one of the first wind vs. water insurance claims arising out of Hurricane Katrina, a Mississippi judge has upheld the exclusion for damage caused by water and water-borne materials in an...
Jul 21 2006 // A groundbreaking case that challenges one of the nation’s largest insurers for refusing to cover damage from Hurricane Katrina’s monster storm surge went into the hands of a federal judge on Wednesday.U.S....
Jul 20 2006 // A federal judge heard closing arguments Wednesday in the first courtroom challenge of the insurance industry’s denial of billions of dollars of homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina.U.S. District Judge...
Jul 17 2006 // The agent at the center of a landmark hurricane insurance case on Friday denied telling a policyholder that he didn’t need flood insurance years before Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. denied much of his claim...
Jul 14 2006 // Some of Hurricane Katrina’s highest winds, not water, damaged the home of a couple suing their insurance company, an engineer testified Wednesday in what could be a landmark federal trial.Paul and Julie Leonard of...
Jul 14 2006 // A judge on Thursday refused to throw out an engineer’s testimony that Hurricane Katrina’s winds caused much of the damage to the home of Mississippi couple suing Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. for denying most...