All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 26 2006 // Hurricane losses and loss adjustment expenses totaling $6.3 billion (after reinsurance) contributed to a reduction in State Farm’s 2005 net income. The company is reporting an after-tax net income from all sources of...
Jan 12 2006 // An agreement approved by the Louisiana Tax Commission sends almost $2 million in State Farm Insurance property taxes to Ouachita Parish, where officials had feared budget cuts if the money stayed in Baton Rouge.State Farm...
Jan 11 2006 // U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., has joined the thousands of Mississippians suing State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., challenging the insurance company’s refusal to cover property losses resulting from Hurricane...
Jan 11 2006 // Earl Hyser and his co-workers figure out how to steal 30 to 60 cars every year. But they aren’t thieves.“We go back to the manufacturer and say, ‘Listen, I get a lot of phone calls on this. It’s...
Jan 2 2006 // A Louisiana district court judge has granted a temporary restraining order preventing, for now, the payment of nearly $2 million in tax revenue to East Baton Rouge Parish that Ouachita Parish officials believe belongs to...
Jan 2 2006 // U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is suing his insurance company over damages to his beachfront Pascagoula home, which was leveled by Hurricane Katrina.The law office of Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, Lott’s...
Jan 1 2006 // U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is suing his insurance company over damages to his beachfront Pascagoula home, which was leveled by Hurricane Katrina.The law office of Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, Lott’s...
Dec 19 2005 // State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a tow truck driver and his sister-in-law who were acquitted of insurance fraud after being accused of faking the theft of a vehicle. Jackson County...
Dec 18 2005 // MISSOURIInsurer to Pay $8 Million: State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a tow truck driver and his sister-in-law who were acquitted of insurance fraud after being accused of faking the theft...
Dec 18 2005 // FLORIDAState Farm of Florida 8.6 Percent Rate Request Approved The Florida Department of Insurance approved an average statewide premium rate hike of 8.6 percent for State Farm of Florida, the largest insurer of homes in...
Dec 16 2005 // U.S. Sen. Trent Lott is suing his insurance company over his beachfront Pascagoula home, which was leveled by Hurricane Katrina.The law office of Lott’s brother-in-law, high-profile plaintiff’s Richard...
Dec 13 2005 // State Farm Insurance is issuing refunds to approximately 3,800 automobile insurance policyholders in New Brunswick (Canada) as a result of an error in the application of a New Business Discount that was introduced in 2000....
Dec 10 2005 // State Farm Insurance is issuing refunds to approximately 27,300 automobile insurance policyholders in Ontario, Canada as a result of a reported error in the application of a New Business Discount that was introduced in...
Dec 7 2005 // State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a tow truck driver and his sister-in-law who were acquitted of insurance fraud after being accused of faking the theft of a vehicle.Jackson County...
Dec 6 2005 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. has lowered its overall car insurance rate in South Carolina by 1.4 percent. State Farm, the insurer of one out of four insured cars in South Carolina, said this reduction...
Dec 5 2005 // A pair of plastic surgeons in New Orleans, La., who are facing more than $1 million in uninsured home losses from Hurricane Katrina, are suing State Farm Insurance, claiming the company did not tell them they could have...
Nov 20 2005 // Plantation, Fla., ‘Insurance Village’The “Insurance Village” established by Florida’s Depart-ment of Financial Services in Plantation, Fla. west of Fort Lauderdale, had a lot of damaged...
Nov 18 2005 // A pair of plastic surgeons in New Orleans, La., who are facing more than $1 million in uninsured home losses from Hurricane Katrina, are suing State Farm Insurance, claiming the company did not tell them they could have...
Nov 17 2005 // The Illinois Supreme Court today ruled that a lawsuit brought in Illinois by a Louisiana plaintiff did not belong in an Illinois state court.In Gridley v. State Farm , the high court remanded the issue to the circuit court...
Nov 6 2005 // The Ohio Supreme Court handed down an opinion on Oct. 12 holding that the former uninsured motorist (UM) law did not prohibit insurers from limiting the geographic scope of UM coverage and that the State Farm policy in...