All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2008 // The Mississippi attorney general’s office says it plans to pay $1 million in settlement money that was pledged to charities nearly a year ago after a deal was struck with State Farm Fire and Casualty Cos.Boys and...
Feb 25 2008 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against State Farm in a dispute over whether the insurance company delivered the medical coverage it promised in its automobile policies.The Supreme...
Feb 21 2008 // With the press of a button, a lawyer for the nation’s largest insurance company may have ended a brief truce in its bitter dispute with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.In an e-mail mistakenly sent to reporters...
Feb 11 2008 // Attorneys for Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal contempt charges that he ignored a court order to turn over documents about insurance claims after Hurricane...
Feb 1 2008 // Plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, facing corruption and contempt charges in unrelated cases, will invoke the Fifth Amendment if forced to testify in a federal lawsuit involving Mississippi’s...
Jan 28 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood must testify in a lawsuit filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. that accuses him of violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of...
Jan 27 2008 // State Farm warned in early January that it will cancel homeowner policies for about 6,000 of its customers in south Louisiana if they aren’t able to demonstrate that their storm-damaged homes are occupied and are...
Jan 27 2008 // A recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation.Because the lawsuit was filed as a class action,...
Jan 25 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says his office opened a new criminal investigation of State Farm Insurance Cos. that is separate from its earlier probe of the insurer’s “crimes against...
Jan 15 2008 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling issued late last week blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation.The ruling against Bloomington,...
Jan 9 2008 // State Farm is warning that it will cancel homeowner policies for about 6,000 of its customers in south Louisiana if they aren’t able to demonstrate that their storm-damaged homes are occupied and are being...
Jan 7 2008 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. reached a settlement on 22 lawsuits stemming from Hurricane Katrina damage.“Obviously, we are pleased to settle without costly and lengthy litigation,” said State Farm spokesman...
Jan 7 2008 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. is seeking to disqualify several former members of the Scruggs Katrina Group – a Mississippi legal team led by embattled attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs – from...
Dec 31 2007 // From storms that flooded the Midwest destroying homes and business in the summer to a court ruling that could have a significantly negative impact on the medical malpractice insurance market in the state of Illinois, 2007...
Dec 23 2007 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a landmark $1 million punitive damage award to a Mississippi couple who sued the insurer for refusing to cover Hurricane Katrina damage to...
Dec 23 2007 // Severe summer storms that ransacked the Midwest, a court ruling that could negatively impact the medical malpractice insurance market in Illinois and RICO allegations in Minnesota were just a few of the news stories that...
Dec 20 2007 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is seeking to have policyholders’ attorneys thrown off a key Hurricane Katrina insurance case because the insurer claims the Mississippi lawyers have behaved unethically, according to...
Dec 19 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co., the largest insurer of homes and cars in Texas, said it filed for an average 3.6 percent rate increase for its Texas homeowners’ insurance policies.The filing includes larger multi-line...
Dec 12 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says the bribery charges against the prominent lawyer he used as a “confidential informant” in a Hurricane Katrina investigation won’t affect the state’s...
Dec 11 2007 // A new State Farm study has identified the top 15 states that may see a glimpse of “suspicious santas” — burglars who strike during the holiday season. Nevada, New Mexico, Washington, Arizona, Georgia and...