All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 7 2007 // A group of State Farm policyholders want the Nebraska Supreme Court to reinstate their lawsuit against the company, because they say State Farm failed to deliver the medical coverage it promised in its automobile...
Dec 7 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a state law that limits the responsibility for payment of damages in lawsuits, including those for faulty products.Deciding a case which drew interest...
Dec 6 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 2 2007 // Every eligible federal judge in north Alabama has stepped aside from presiding in the criminal contempt case of Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs, who is accused of disobeying an order by failing to turn over...
Nov 19 2007 // Every eligible federal judge in north Alabama has stepped aside from presiding in the criminal contempt case of Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs, who is accused of disobeying an order by failing to turn over...
Nov 18 2007 // A U.S. court of appeals ruling dashed the hopes of potentially hundreds of post-Hurricane Katrina claimants recently when it ruled a major insurer’s policy language unambiguous.The case is based on State Farm’s...
Nov 18 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood threatened to indict the chairman of State Farm Insurance Companies if the insurer didn’t settle lawsuits over thousands of Hurricane Katrina claims, according to the testimony...
Nov 18 2007 // A federal jury in New Orleans in early November sided with a south Louisiana couple who sued State Farm Insurance Cos. over damage to their property from Hurricane Katrina. Around the same time, a U.S. appeals court...
Nov 15 2007 // North Carolina-based Forensic Analysis and Engineering Corp., has reached a settlement with lawyers who have filed hundreds of lawsuits against State Farm Insurance Cos. on behalf of policyholders whose claims were denied...
Nov 9 2007 // A federal judge has extended a restraining order that prevents Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from continuing a criminal investigation into State Farm Insurance Cos.’ handling of Hurricane Katrina claims, a...
Nov 9 2007 // A jury on Nov. 7 sided with a south Louisiana couple in the first federal trial in Louisiana against State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage.An attorney for plaintiffs Michael and Judy Kodrin and a State...
Nov 9 2007 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti is suing the state’s largest property insurance companies, accusing insurers of conspiring to limit payments to policyholders after hurricanes Katrina and Rita and engaging in...
Nov 7 2007 // A jury in New Orleans heard opening statements on Oct. 5 in the first federal trial in Louisiana against State Farm Insurance Cos. for a policyholder’s lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage.The eight-member jury will...
Nov 7 2007 // A U.S. court of appeals ruling dashed the hopes of potentially hundreds of post-Hurricane Katrina claimants Tuesday when it ruled a major insurer’s policy language unambiguous.The case is based on State Farm Fire and...
Nov 5 2007 // State Farm Insurance Cos. is suing Mississippi’s attorney general for allegedly violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane...
Nov 4 2007 // Whether serious injury is required to be demonstrated for an insured to be entitled to supplementary underinsured motorist benefits (SUM) was recently argued before New York’s Court of Appeals.On October 9, 2007,...