All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 5 2006 // ArkansasWorkers’ Compensation Jones Brothers Inc. v. Whitlock, et al. (Ark. May 4, 2005)Prime contractor liable for workers’ compensation benefits owed to employee of uninsured subcontractor: The Supreme Court...
Jun 2 2006 // State Farm Insurance announced it has submitted several filings to the Texas Department of Insurance as it prepares to implement rate adjustments in the state. The company is reducing auto rates but increasing homeowners...
May 31 2006 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has scheduled rate hearings June 5 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. for input from the public concerning rate filings by State Farm Florida Insurance Co., which requested statewide...
May 30 2006 // An Oklahoma couple was awarded nearly $13 million in a class-action lawsuit after a jury ruled that State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. intentionally underpaid claims from families whose homes were damaged by tornadoes...
May 26 2006 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division conducted an arrest warrant sweep that resulted in the arrests of eight suspects in Tulare, Fresno and San Luis Obispo counties.The suspects in these cases are...
May 26 2006 // Provisions in a State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. policy that exclude certain damage from Hurricane Katrina are unenforceable, a federal judge in Gulfport, Miss. has ruled.A couple whose Long Beach home was damaged by...
May 25 2006 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. refuses to engage in the appraisal process in Mississippi to resolve Hurricane Katrina claims, even though its own policy mandates appraisal on demand when the amount of an insured loss is...
May 15 2006 // State Farm Insurance Co. is seeking to boost premiums by an average of about 70 percent in Florida, the company said Friday. If approved by state regulators, the increase would be effective Aug. 15.The Bloomington,...
May 11 2006 // A lawsuit filed by more than 650 Gulf Coast homeowners accuses State Farm Insurance Co. of using a “one-size-fits-all” engineering report as the basis for refusing to cover damage to homes destroyed by...
May 2 2006 // In a recent Insurance Journal Website story, it was reported that Wisconsin residents have collected more than $2 million in reimbursements in a multistate settlement with State Farm Insurance Co. over vehicle...
May 1 2006 // Wisconsin residents have collected more than $2 million in reimbursements in a multistate settlement with State Farm Insurance Co. over vehicle titles, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced late on Friday, April...
Apr 13 2006 // A judge in Gulfport, Miss. has refused to restrict Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from reviewing documents that State Farm Insurance Co. is required to turn over to other investigators in Hood’s office.State...
Apr 12 2006 // A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Trent Lott said in Biloxi, Miss. that State Farm Insurance Co. is destroying documents that could show the insurer has fraudulently denied thousands of claims by Lott and other policyholders whose...
Apr 11 2006 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. announced today that Vincent J. Trosino Sr., its president, vice chairman and chief operating officer, will retire at the end of 2006, ending a 44-year career with the...
Apr 7 2006 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is paying for Hurricane Katrina property losses when evidence shows that wind caused the damage, James Burwell, claims manager, wrote in a letter to the Mississippi Insurance Commission.But...
Apr 6 2006 // Bloomington-Ill.-based State Farm Insurance has announced that it is the first property and casualty insurer to be a sponsor of a major film promotion. State Farm will play a major role in introducing the public to CARS,...
Mar 20 2006 // The Supreme Court has refused to consider whether a top judge in Illinois improperly voted to throw out a $1 billion judgment against State Farm Insurance Co. after accepting campaign donations from company lawyers and...
Mar 8 2006 // The Supreme Court refused this week to consider whether a top judge in Illinois improperly voted to throw out a $1 billion judgment against State Farm Insurance Co. after accepting campaign donations from company lawyers...
Mar 6 2006 // San Diego Roofing Contractor Sentenced San Diego County Superior Court Judge David Danielsen has sentenced a roofing contractor to a six month jail term, three years formal probation and ordered him to pay $272,000 in...
Mar 3 2006 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett reported that criminal charges were filed against two Solanco High School teachers accused of deceiving State Farm in a fraudulent insurance claim for less than $800 to repair a...