All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 28 2008 // In less than 30 days, a number of Mississippi automobile insurance policyholders could see a premium rate reduction of up to an average of 2.9 percent as the result of a rate filing approved by Commissioner of Insurance...
May 27 2008 // State Farm Insurance does not have to refund consumers some $650 million in alleged overcharges while its dispute with Texas regulators over homeowner rates is reviewed.A state appeals court has ruled the insurer was...
May 27 2008 // State Farm and several smaller Northwest-based auto insurers continue to be among the best at taking care of their customers after an accident. And some of the other larger, best-known insurers –including...
May 19 2008 // A federal judge has ordered Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to turn over policyholder records to State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. within 15 days.Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm is entitled to...
May 19 2008 // Reflecting the general upward trends in the cost of property and liability insurance claims, State Farm General Insurance Co. has filed a request for an average statewide 6.9 percent rate increase with the California...
May 15 2008 // A class action lawsuit was filed in U.S. Federal Court, Central District, alleging that State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is enriching itself with payments rightfully belonging to its insureds in violation of...
May 9 2008 // Reflecting the general upward trends in the cost of property and liability insurance claims, State Farm General Insurance Co. has filed a request for an average statewide 6.9 percent rate increase with the California...
May 1 2008 // A team of plaintiffs lawyers that includes a former high-ranking federal prosecutor denies infiltrating an insurance company’s computer database to help build a case against the insurer after Hurricane...
Apr 23 2008 // A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims of fraud in a key Hurricane Katrina lawsuit that accused State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. of using different engineering reports to deny a Mississippi couple’s insurance...
Apr 22 2008 // A major insurer is telling some Jersey shore customers that their home insurance policies will not be renewed.State Farm Insurance Company says it is trying to limit its exposure of catastrophic property loss. The company...
Apr 14 2008 // In its “Straight Talk About Insurance” column on its Web site, the Texas Department of Insurance has updated information on the decision to approve an increase in State Farm Insurance Company’s homeowners...
Apr 10 2008 // A federal appeals court threw out a $1 million punitive damage award Monday to a Mississippi couple who sued the nation’s largest insurance company over Hurricane Katrina damage.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Apr 10 2008 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. wants a federal judge to sanction two sisters who secretly copied Hurricane Katrina claims documents and gave them to a Mississippi lawyer whose clients were suing the company.Cori and...
Mar 21 2008 // Reacting to Gulf Coast hurricanes and potential future storm losses, State Farm said it will limit coverage in Alabama for new policies in Mobile and Baldwin counties beginning April 1.State Farm, based in Bloomington,...
Mar 14 2008 // In 2007, Texas insurers recorded one of their most profitable years of the decade, prompting some consumer advocates to call for tougher state regulation on homeowner rates.Financial reports released by the Texas...
Mar 10 2008 // Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm Insurance announced that profit rose 3 percent last year on the strength of higher auto policyholder dividends despite a steep decline in property casualty underwriting. The company said...
Mar 10 2008 // State Farm, FloridaFlorida’s largest private insurer, State Farm, has decided to cease writing new policies for homes. The move is not expected to affect most of the company’s 1 million current policyholders....
Mar 3 2008 // Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm Insurance said recently that many drivers in Nebraska should see lower car insurance rates because there have been fewer accidents. State Farm insurance says its auto insurance rates in...
Feb 29 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he would not have met with two men now entangled in a judicial bribery case had he known they were allegedly paid $500,000 to try to influence his investigation of an insurance...
Feb 28 2008 // A lawyer accused of trying to bribe a judge also paid two associates $500,000 to convince Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood not to file criminal charges against an insurance company over its handling of Hurricane...