Latest State Farm Headlines

All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Charges Dropped Against Firm Accused of Hail Scam in Indiana

Apr 6 2009 // Prosecutors in Indianapolis, Ind., have dropped insurance fraud charges against a Florida-based repair company accused of faking hail damage to drum up business after a 2006 storm.Instead, CPM Construction President Joseph...

Florida Denies State Farm Hearing on Homeowners Market Withdrawal Plan

Apr 6 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has denied State Farm Florida an administrative hearing on details of the insurer’s plan to withdraw from the state’s homeowners market.State Farm Florida has balked...

Florida Denies State Farm Hearing on Withdrawal Plan

Mar 30 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has denied State Farm Florida an administrative hearing on details of the insurer’s plan to withdraw from the state’s homeowners market.State Farm Florida has balked...

Business Moves

Mar 23 2009 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott J. Kipper has approved a rate change for homeowners insurance premiums as filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. The rate change will become effective...

State Farm Balks at Florida Withdrawal Conditions

Mar 23 2009 // State Farm Florida has appealed stipulations that Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has put on its plan to withdraw from the state’s property insurance market.Florida’s second largest insurer of homes and...

State Farm Recalls Promotional Teddy Bears Made in China

Mar 18 2009 // U.S. insurer State Farm said on Tuesday that more than 800,000 teddy bears given out in North America as part of a company promotion were being recalled because of a choking hazard.The toys, called the “State Farm...

Ratings Roundup: Zenith, State Farm, Restoration RRG

Mar 17 2009 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed Zenith National Insurance Corp.’s ratings as follows: Zenith –Issuer Default Rating (IDR) ‘BBB+’. Zenith National Insurance Capital Trust I –$58.5 million 8.55...

State Farm Appeals Conditions Placed on Florida Withdrawal

Mar 9 2009 // State Farm Florida on Friday appealed stipulations that Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has put on its plan to withdraw from the state’s property insurance market.Florida’s second largest insurer of homes...

Florida Governor’s Insurance ‘Plan’ Is Dangerous and Expensive

Mar 9 2009 // The Florida property insurance market today reminds me of the old cartoon with the insurance pitch: “Here’s a nice little policy with a real low premium if you promise never to have any claims.” When the...

State Farm Makes Homeowners Insurance Rate Changes in Nevada

Mar 6 2009 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott J. Kipper has approved a rate change for homeonwers insurance premiums as filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. The rate change will become effective on April 1, 2009, for new...

S&P Affirms State Farm Ratings, But Revises Outlook to Negative

Mar 4 2009 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘AA’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and all of its core companies, including...

State Farm: $6.3B P/C Underwriting Loss, $2.1B Operating Loss in 2008

Feb 27 2009 // The net worth for the State Farm group decreased in 2008 by $10.4 billion to end the year at $53.3 billion, the company reported.The primary reason for the decrease was the $9.2 billion decline in the value of the...

Returning Florida Lawmakers’ Agenda Includes Property Insurance Woes

Feb 23 2009 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s political mantra has been to hold down property insurance rates, taxes and almost anything else costly for people he wants voting for him next year.Whether Crist seeks re-election or Mel...

Attitude Adjustment

Feb 22 2009 // The tiff between State Farm Florida and the Office of Insurance Regulation that has culminated in the insurer’s withdrawal from the state’s property market is disturbing.It’s not disturbing because an...

Declarations

Feb 22 2009 // Devastating“From what I saw today, it was incredible, and we only saw a very small portion today. If you extrapolate that over the entire geographic area that is impacted by Kentucky, it’s a devastating...

Florida Attaches Major Conditions to State Farm Withdrawal

Feb 22 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has offered his own plan for State Farm Florida Insurance Co.’s withdrawal from the state that includes conditions not in the insurers’ own plan.McCarty wants State...

FSLA Leader Sees Soft Market Opportunities in State Farm Exit, Med Mal, EPLI

Feb 22 2009 // The Florida surplus lines industry may be challenged right now by regulatory uncertainty stemming from the Essex and CNL Hotels rulings but it is not letting that blind it to opportunities.One opportunity is the pending...

Allstate, State Farm Dismissed from Case Charging Katrina Overbilling

Feb 20 2009 // A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of Allstate Corp. and State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. from a lawsuit accusing them of overbilling the U.S. government for flood damage in Louisiana related to the 2005 storm...

Northern Capital Looking to Write State Farm Florida Insureds

Feb 20 2009 // Northern Capital Insurance Group, a Florida-based homeowners, commercial and auto insurance provider, said it is prepared to insure 50,000 State Farm Florida customers as that insurer withdraws from the state’s...

Florida’s Peninsula Insurance Ready to Write State Farm Policies

Feb 18 2009 // Florida Peninsula Insurance Co., a Boca Raton-based domestic insurer writing homeowners, condo and renters policies statewide, said it is prepared to insure up to 100,000 State Farm Florida customers as that insurer...