All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. has paid out about $12 million in claims with more still coming in after a Kansas tornado that destroyed a town two weeks ago and killed at least a dozen people, the company said.Home and auto...
May 21 2007 // Spooked by devastating wildfire seasons, the nation’s top insurers are inspecting homes in high-risk areas throughout the West and threatening to cancel coverage if owners don’t clear brush or take other...
May 16 2007 // Actor Tom Sizemore has settled lawsuits brought against him by State Farm Insurance and his former girlfriend, one-time Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.Papers filed in Superior Court in California said that resolutions were...
May 15 2007 // A 39-year-old Washington woman paralyzed from injuries caused in a car crash sued her insurer for denying coverage for surgery doctors agree could have prevented her paralysis.Tara Sadler, a Yakima, Wash., resident and...
May 11 2007 // Lousiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that State Farm has agreed to reevaluate all of the claims it denied from Louisiana policyholders whose homes or businesses were reduced to their foundations due to...
May 9 2007 // A federal judge has denied State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.’s request to dismiss a lawsuit against the insurer because the policyholders received an emergency Small Business Administration loan to help rebuild their...
May 7 2007 // Did Lott settle for lots?“We are pleased to have reached a tentative agreement to settle Senator Lott’s claim and to have avoided litigation that might have been lengthier and more expensive for both...
May 7 2007 // DeclarationsElephant in room “State Farm’s intentional mishandling of the slab cases has been the elephant in the living room from day one in the post-Katrina insurance debacle.”Attorney Richard...
May 7 2007 // State Farm has resolved 99 percent of all Katrina-related claims filed by policyholders.Sen. Lott settles Katrina claim with State Farm U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R – Miss., has agreed to settle the lawsuit he filed...
May 3 2007 // Plaintiff attorneys at the Scruggs Katrina Group, headed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, said they have brokered an out-of-court settlement for 34 Met Life Property & Casualty policyholders in Mississippi...
May 3 2007 // Greg Jones, senior vice president of State Farm’s California operations, has accepted a promotion to the Illinois-based corporation’s thirteen-member Chairman’s Council effective May 1. The...
Apr 30 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood didn’t wait long to take on the insurance industry for denying the claims of thousands of policyholders after Hurricane Katrina.Less than a month after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm...
Apr 29 2007 // U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R- Miss., has agreed to settle the lawsuit he filed against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for refusing to cover Hurricane Katrina’s damage to his Gulf Coast home, an attorney for the...
Apr 23 2007 // State Farm begins promised review of Miss. Katrina claimsThe State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it...
Apr 23 2007 // Katrina homeowners’ lawyers cite e-mails as proof against State FarmE-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to...
Apr 23 2007 // Katrina homeowners’ lawyers claim e-mails as evidenceE-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to blame damage on...
Apr 20 2007 // State Farm will reduce auto insurance rates an average of 6 percent in Illinois effective May 14, the company said in a statement this week.Premiums will dip by an average $40 a year statewide, though amounts will vary...
Apr 20 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said.The so-called...
Apr 18 2007 // A federal judge said this week that his “door is open” to a mass settlement of disputed insurance claims in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, but he won’t endorse a proposed class-action settlement of...
Apr 13 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it reached last month with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George...