All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2009 // Florida is losing its largest property insurance company.State Farm Florida Insurance announced today it is beginning the process that will allow it to non-renew policies and halt all sales of homeowners or other...
Jan 25 2009 // Dozens of Hurricane Katrina-related lawsuits filed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs for policyholders against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. have been settled. Terms of the settlements are confidential. Officials...
Jan 25 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has affirmed the ruling of an administrative law judge and officially disapproved a State Farm Insurance homeowners rate filing that has been in dispute since last July.McCarty...
Jan 20 2009 // Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm Insurance Cos. has cut ties to an Indian company mired in a $1 billion fraud scandal, according to a published report.State Farm terminated a contract with longtime vendor Satyam...
Jan 15 2009 // Dozens of Hurricane Katrina-related lawsuits filed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs for policyholders against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. have been settled.Terms of the settlements are confidential. Officials...
Jan 13 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has affirmed the ruling of an administrative law judge and officially disapproved a State Farm Insurance homeowners rate filing that has been in dispute since last July.McCarty...
Jan 11 2009 // A federal judge in New Orleans in late December 2008 dismissed an antitrust lawsuit Louisiana’s former attorney general filed against some of the nation’s largest insurance companies after hurricanes Katrina...
Dec 19 2008 // A federal judge in New Orleans has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit Louisiana’s former attorney general filed against some of the nation’s largest insurance companies after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.The suit,...
Dec 15 2008 // An administrative law judge in Florida on Friday rejected a 47.1 percent average rate increase sought by State Farm Florida, the state’s largest privately owned property insurer.The Florida-only affiliate of...
Nov 24 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has approved homeowners insurance rate increases for State Farm and Farmers, increasing premiums by a combined $115 million.State Farm customers will soon face an average 6.9...
Nov 24 2008 // The 2008 hurricane season came very close to presenting, on a large scale, the potential quandary caused by successive losses. On Sept.1, 2008, Hurricane Gustav came ashore and caused substantial damage from the Louisiana...
Nov 16 2008 // The Blame Game“It stretches both credibility and past experience with bridge structural failure to find causation through a single factor.” —Minnesota State Rep. Jim Oberstar on Oct. 26 criticized the...
Nov 16 2008 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. made questionable decisions in handling Hurricane Katrina claims, but a nearly two-year study found no pattern of fraud in Mississippi.The report by the Mississippi Insurance Department...
Nov 16 2008 // The 2008 hurricane season came very close to presenting, on a large scale, the potential quandary caused by successive losses. On Sept.1, 2008, Hurricane Gustav came ashore and caused substantial damage from the Louisiana...
Nov 4 2008 // Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn announced that effective Nov. 1, 2008, OFI Private Investments (OFIPI), a subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds Inc., will become the new investment manager and service provider for the State...
Nov 3 2008 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. made questionable decisions in handling Hurricane Katrina claims, but a nearly two-year study found no pattern of fraud in Mississippi, according to a state agency report released Oct....
Oct 17 2008 // A Wisconsin appeals court says the estate of a police officer killed in a car crash six years ago cannot collect on his insurance policy.The ruling overturns a judge’s decision awarding Robert Etter’s estate...
Oct 6 2008 // Insurers are not allowed to bring equitable subrogation actions premised on professional negligence against attorneys, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled.According to State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., as subrogee of...
Sep 22 2008 // Marion County, Indiana prosecutors say a company that offered to inspect roofs for hail damage after a 2006 storm tried to scam insurance companies by having employees damage roofs.Prosecutors say CPM Construction offered...
Sep 22 2008 // It took three years for Mississippi resident, Scott Gordon, to resolve the dispute that Hurricane Katrina spawned with his insurance company. Anything resembling a full recovery from the storm will take much...