All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 26 2010 // State Farm gave consumers one part of its policy change when it announced eight months ago it would resume issuing insurance policies in Mississippi.What the company didn’t say is it is writing policies on a...
Feb 24 2010 // Randi Schuknecht worried that her longtime, established insurance company was about to leave Florida — and leave her without a homeowner’s policy. So she found a new insurer — one she wouldn’t have...
Feb 21 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon declined to approve a rate request filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company that would have raised homeowners insurance rates by a statewide average of 19.1 percent. State...
Feb 11 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has declined to approve a rate request filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company that would have raised homeowners insurance rates by a statewide average of 19.1...
Feb 8 2010 // Private insurer State Farm informed a U.S. government regulator of a worrying trend of vehicle-caused accidents involving Toyota Motor Corp. as far back as late 2007, an official at the company said.“When you start...
Feb 1 2010 // Thousands of State Farm Florida property insurance customers will be seeing notices in their mailboxes this week saying their policies will not be renewed, a company spokesman said.The first wave of notices will be mailed...
Jan 15 2010 // State Farm will drop as many as 1,650 insurance policies on homes on North Carolina’s coastal barrier islands, according to state officials.Kristin Millam, public information director for the North Carolina...
Jan 11 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Louisiana’s largest homeowners insurer, has asked insurance regulators for a rate increase that would average 19.1 percent statewide with coastal residents taking the brunt.The...
Jan 10 2010 // $19 MillionThe amount being funneled to the Mississippi wind pool from the Mississippi Insurance Department this month. Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said the funds should help stabilize premium rates for wind pool...
Dec 18 2009 // The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a man’s drunkenness did not render his attempted shootings of a woman accidental and therefore did not trigger coverage under either his homeowners policy or his...
Dec 16 2009 // State Farm Florida will remain in Florida under a negotiated agreement that allows it to cancel about 15 percent of its policies and raise rates 14.8 percent. The deal also allows its contract agents to place the business...
Dec 16 2009 // New York officials recently directed State Farm Insurance Co. to give 113 Long Island property owners the opportunity to renew their homeowners’ policies with the company.The action came as the result of a complaint...
Dec 16 2009 // State Farm Insurance thinks it’s paying too much in property taxes in its hometown of Bloomington, Ill. If the company is right it could cost local schools and government millions of dollars.The Bloomington-based...
Dec 11 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he was not happy about granting a 19.5 percent homeowners rate increase to State Farm, but he had little choice.“Would you want me to have 26,000 policies canceled...
Dec 6 2009 // The state’s largest private property insurer may not leave Florida after all, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty told Gov. Charlie Crist and other members of the Florida Cabinet.McCarty, repeating what he has told...
Dec 6 2009 // The six-year battle between the Texas Department of Insurance and State Farm Lloyd’s (SFL) over homeowners insurance rates that TDI says are excessive is destined to continue. State Farm appealed an order signed by...
Dec 2 2009 // A state administrative court hearing on State Farm Florida Insurance’s plan for withdrawing from Florida’s property insurance market that was set for Dec. 17 has been postponed again. At the request of...
Dec 1 2009 // Insurance rates for about 26,000 State Farm homeowners in three Mississippi coastal counties will rise 19.5 percent beginning in February.Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney announced the rate increase, noting...
Nov 30 2009 // State Farm Lloyds has filed an appeal to a Texas Department of Insurance order to pay home insurance policyholders $310 million in refunds and interest for alleged overcharges going back as far as 2003.Spokesman Kevin...
Nov 20 2009 // The state’s largest private property insurer may not leave Florida after all, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty told Gov. Charlie Crist and other members of the Florida Cabinet.McCarty, repeating what he has told...