All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2011 // State Farm Insurance Co. has released its top 10 states for claims involving dog bites, with California on top in number of claims and Florida recording the highest cost per claim.The Bloomington-based State Farm reported...
May 10 2011 // California leads the nation in the number of claims made and paid out by State Farm Insurance for dog bites, according to the Bloomington, Ill.-based insurer. The insurer recorded 369 claims were made, and $11.3 million...
May 6 2011 // Major U.S. insurers jostled on Capitol Hill this week over control of 800,000 former State Farm flood insurance policies as lawmakers tried to advance reform of the nation’s flood insurance system.The conflict began...
May 5 2011 // Major U.S. insurers jostled on Capitol Hill this week over control of 800,000 former State Farm flood insurance policies as lawmakers tried to advance reform of the nation’s flood insurance system.The conflict began...
Apr 18 2011 // State Farm Insurance plans to open a retail storefront in Chicago this summer where it apparently doesn’t plan to sell anything.The Bloomington-based insurer says it plans use it the location in Chicago’s...
Apr 14 2011 // A middle school teacher in Florida has been award $3 million in damages after a jury found State Farm refused to live up to its contract on a 2008 car accident. David Bowler sued State Farm for damages and medical costs...
Apr 14 2011 // Texas State Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio has announced he is terminating his policyholder relationship with State Farm Insurance Co. because of the company’s persistent refusal to pay back customers that have...
Apr 14 2011 // State Farm plans to begin increasing or lowering some of its Illinois policy holders’ rates next year based on how far they drive.The Bloomington-based company says its new Drive Safe and Save program will only be...
Apr 12 2011 // A judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled that State Farm Insurance Co. must comply with a state insurance department directive to repay policyholders in a long running dispute between the insurer and Texas insurance regulators...
Apr 12 2011 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved a statewide average 18.8 percent rate increase in State Farm’s homeowners’ policies, which is roughly 10 percent below the 27.9 percent it initially...
Apr 4 2011 // Louisiana insurance regulators rejected a rate increase from the state’s largest insurer of homes, but the board of the state’s property insurer of last resort approved a rate hike, albeit smaller than the one...
Mar 24 2011 // Louisiana insurance regulators have rejected a rate increase from the state’s largest insurer of homes.State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. wanted an average 14.3 percent rate hike for its 301,000 customers who get...
Mar 22 2011 // LeBron James studies statistics all the time. One in particular is jumping out at him these days.And it has nothing to do with basketball. James will help lead a new stay-in-school initiative being unveiled in Washington...
Mar 3 2011 // State Farm reported $1.8 billion in after-tax net income in 2010, compared with $800 million in 2009. The improvement “was driven by the P-C companies’ improved results,” said the bulletin, which also...
Feb 18 2011 // Citing sinkhole losses and higher operating expenses, State Farm Florida asked state regulators this week for a 28 percent premium increase on its homeowners policies.Sinkhole claims, which are approaching $2 billion over...
Feb 18 2011 // A Texas judge who’s a State Farm Insurance customer has withdrawn from hearing the company’s fight against paying $350 million in alleged overcharges.The case has been reassigned to Judge Rhonda Hurley. No new...
Feb 1 2011 // State Farm of Florida is requesting a statewide average 27.7 percent homeowners insurance rate increase citing the rising costs of sinkhole claims. The request comes as Florida lawmakers are trying to broker a deal over...
Jan 25 2011 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest insurer of autos in Tennessee, is increasing its overall rate level in the state an average of 0.4 percent effective Feb. 21. After this rate change is implemented,...
Dec 16 2010 // The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled in favor of insurance companies in two cases involving how much people injured in car wrecks should get under uninsured motorists coverage.At issue was whether the two injured persons...
Dec 15 2010 // Building its brand messages directly into the game play of the popular social game Car Town – the only game on Facebook built around licensed automotive brands –State Farm today launched a six-month advertising...