All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2021 // State Farm is returning $400 million to California mutual auto insurance customers due to better than anticipated claim results, the company reported.The announcement comes as the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo...
Mar 11 2021 // State Farm is returning $400 million to California mutual auto insurance customers due to better than anticipated claim results, the company announced this week.The announcement comes as the California Insurance...
Feb 4 2021 // The National Fire Protection Association and State Farm have kicked off a funding awards application period for the eighth national Wildfire Community Preparedness Day on Saturday, May 1, which helps communities prepare...
Dec 9 2020 // Newfront Insurance has added Mic De Fazio as a field sales leader. De Fazio will lead brokers in developing client solutions and continuing the firm’s organic growth. De Fazio will join the sales leadership team. He...
Nov 18 2020 // Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim...
Nov 17 2020 // State Farm is sending sensors that can detect hazards in electric wiring to 40,000 homeowners in California, Arizona and Texas as part of a pilot project that will measure potential savings and customer acceptance.Mike...
Oct 26 2020 // A federal judge has ruled that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. does not have to return premiums to a small business customer because of the insured’s reduced business during the pandemic.The judge in Missouri found...
Oct 5 2020 // OneBeacon, International Bond & Marine BrokerageOneBeacon Insurance Group said it has acquired International Bond & Marine Brokerage Ltd. (IB&M), a privately held brokerage and risk management firm specializing...
Oct 5 2020 // A Houston plaintiff’s attorney defeated State Farm Lloyd’s for the fourth time on the same issue, this time coming away with a federal appellate court ruling that policyholders don’t have to prove that...
Sep 22 2020 // A Houston plaintiff’s attorney defeated State Farm Lloyd’s for the fourth time on the same issue, this time coming away with a federal appellate court ruling that policyholders don’t have to prove that...
Sep 21 2020 // The Villages Insurance Partners has added 3 former State Farm employees to its Personal Lines Insurance team.Specializing in home, auto and golf car insurance, Chelsea Allen, Julia Skillman and Lacey Maher collectively...
Sep 17 2020 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is acquiring Dallas-based nonstandard auto insurer, GAINSCO, in a $400 million cash transaction. It will be the first time in State Farm’s 98-year history that it has...
Sep 7 2020 // Rulings in two lawsuits originating in Texas over business income losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic were handed down in August in favor of insurance firms.In one, an insurance agency was added to a restaurant...
Aug 28 2020 // Property information, analytics and data provider, CoreLogic, has estimated residential and commercial insured losses from Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and Texas will come in at between $8 billion and $12 billion.That...
Aug 27 2020 // Ratings analysts A.M. Best and Moody’s are expecting property/casualty insurers and reinsurers to suffer meaningful losses from Hurricane Laura.A.M. Best expects losses from Hurricane Laura to place added stress on...
Aug 16 2020 // A federal judge has agreed with an insurer that a group of barbershops in the San Antonio, Texas-area have no basis for claims seeking coverage under their commercial insurance policies for business interruption losses...
Aug 3 2020 // Texas law requires an insurer to defend the grandparents of a 10-year-old boy who was killed while driving their all-terrain vehicle against a negligence lawsuit, even though the carrier says neither the boy nor the crash...
Jul 27 2020 // A federal appellate court has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit to proceed against State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. that may force the insurer to correct underpayments paid to some 65,000 policyholders.A...
Jul 20 2020 // After a profitable 2019, the U.S. personal lines insurance sector is positioned to see underwriting profits in 2020 even with considerable economic uncertainty from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from...
Jul 6 2020 // State Farm Insurance Co. has been approved for an overall auto insurance rate decrease of 9.6% in Louisiana, the state insurance department reported.State Farm’s rate reduction most recently approved by Louisiana...