All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2007 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and lawmakers are questioning why the Iowa Insurance Division fined an insurance company $750,000, but didn’t make public the reasons for the penalty.Culver is concerned the agreement with...
Mar 28 2007 // Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis approved an order allowing Royal Palm Insurance Co. and Security First Insurance Co. to offer new coverage to the 57,000 homeowner policyholders currently with Maitland-based...
Mar 26 2007 // La.’s Donelon forges agreement with Allstate over cancelled policiesLouisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reported on March 19, 2007, that he had reached a settlement with Allstate concerning 4,772...
Mar 26 2007 // Some of the lawyers who helped negotiate a proposed settlement affecting some 36,000 claims with State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage have withdrawn their request for a federal judge to approve the...
Mar 26 2007 // Gov. Haley Barbour signed a new law on March 22 designed to shore up Mississippi’s insurer of last resort and to bring economic stability to a state still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.After Katrina plowed across...
Mar 21 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 Mississippi policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and “make millions of dollars available” for additional payments, Mississippi...
Mar 20 2007 // The Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the Insurance Institute of Michigan, are urging a no vote in the Senate in response to recent passage of legislation that would make it easier to sue for non-economic damages under the...
Mar 19 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that he has reached a favorable settlement for the 4,772 Allstate policyholders in four south Louisiana parishes whose homeowners insurance was cancelled as part of...
Mar 14 2007 // Some of the lawyers who helped negotiate a proposed settlement with State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage claims withdrew their request Monday for a federal judge to approve the multimillion dollar...
Mar 14 2007 // Citizens is one step closer to providing policyholders with more options and premium savings, thanks to approval of the Multi-Peril Business Plan by the Financial Services Commission.“We are excited about providing...
Mar 12 2007 // Louisiana’s state-run insurer has agreed to a mass settlement with more than 100 policyholders, a deal believed to be the first of its kind in the state since hurricanes Katrina and Rita spawned thousands of...
Mar 12 2007 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. recently announced it will pay $1.25 billion in dividends to its mutual auto insurance policyholders in 46 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian province of New...
Mar 12 2007 // Alleging that insurers failed to pay or properly adjust claims for 200,000 policyholders in Florida by ignoring fees for rebuilding permits, a group representing homeowners has filed suits against three insurers.The...
Mar 12 2007 // U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr., the federal judge weighing competing plans to resolve thousands of disputed claims in Mississippi against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. after Hurricane Katrina, held a hearing...
Mar 12 2007 // La. insurance regulators probe Allstate’s policy cancellationsLouisiana insurance regulators are investigating whether Allstate Insurance Co. is canceling policies without properly inspecting homes to see if they are...
Mar 9 2007 // With its financial records in disarray, Louisiana’s state-run insurance company of last resort will get a new chief administrator and beef up its management with a chief financial officer and internal auditor,...
Mar 6 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has ordered Allstate to scrap its property inspection process that led to the cancellation of more than 4,700 homeowners policies and reinstate coverage on those homeowners...
Mar 5 2007 // Arrowpoint Capital Corp. has completed the acquisition of all Royal & SunAlliance USA businesses formerly owned by Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc of London. Arrowpoint Capital Corp. was formed in June...
Mar 2 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that Department of Insurance staff will be inspecting the properties of 18 Allstate policyholders in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes who complained to...
Mar 2 2007 // A federal judge weighing competing plans to resolve thousands of disputed claims against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. after Hurricane Katrina heard emotional testimony Wednesday in Gulfport from Mississippi...