All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2001 // The nonstandard auto market enjoyed above-average growth and profitability across the country through much of the 1990s. In fact, by the late ’90s, low entry barriers, including modest surplus levels required to...
Mar 12 2001 // State Farm Insurance Cos., the nation’s largest personal lines insurer, announced Feb. 28 that its net income dropped 60 percent in 2000 due to a combination of increased claims and reduced rates. Net income from all...
Mar 1 2001 // State Farm Insurance Cos., the nation’s largest personal lines insurer, announced yesterday that its net income dropped 60 percent in 2000 due to a combination of increased claims and reduced rates.Net income from...
Feb 21 2001 // Editor’s note: In a response to a question which read, have you ever at any time been under indictment for any crime, Dr. Saracino’s answer is yes. On Feb. 13, 2001, Barbara and her husband were indicted for a...
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Nov 29 2000 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is implementing a new auto insurance discount. Using its actual claim payments for driver and passenger injuries by make and model of vehicle, the company is awarding...
Nov 28 2000 // Syndicated television news magazine “Inside Edition” reported Monday that State Farm is buying wrecks, fixing them and putting them back on the road with clean rather than salvage titles. According to a news...
Nov 6 2000 // In 1998, the Texas Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the standard Texas homeowners’ policy covered damage to a home’s foundation resulting from a plumbing leak. The court decided that the standard...
Nov 3 2000 // A Tehama County Superior Court judge sentenced David Michael Chene, a former Red Bluff insurance agent to nine years in state prison on Nov. 1. Chene was also ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution plus 10 percent interest...
Oct 23 2000 // Aon Corp. and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company have signed an agreement in which State Farm will market commercial insurance specialty products developed and serviced by AON. The products, which will be sold...
Oct 12 2000 // Aon Corp. and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company have signed an agreement in which State Farm will market commercial insurance specialty products developed and serviced by AON. The products, which will be sold...
Oct 11 2000 // Services State Farm Insurance Cos. has received federal approval to offer banking services nationwide by late 2001. The company opened State Farm Bank in 1999, and began training Chicago-area agents to sell its bank...
Aug 17 2000 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. took exception to an Aug. 16 Los Angeles Times article which reported a State Farm spokesman as saying that the insurer had noticed an unusually high...
Aug 10 2000 // State Farm Insurance announced the launch of an advertising campaign targeting the Chinese community in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Toronto. The new marketing campaign will include television, print and radio ads that...
Aug 7 2000 // Indiana insurance regulators are set to investigate whether State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. unfairly denies or limits medical claims of crash victims. Critics say some “utilization review” firms hired by...
Aug 4 2000 // Further evidence that the personal auto market is far from making a complete turn: State Farm, California’s largest insurer of passenger cars, will drop rates in the state an average of 5.0 percent, effective Sept....
Jul 25 2000 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is investigating reports that State Farm, the nation’s largest auto insurer, improperly denied claims for treatment of injuries in accidents. NAIC President George...
Jul 25 2000 // State Farm Insurance Cos., the nation’s largest home and personal auto insurer, has agreed to sell Fortis individual health insurance through its more than 16,000 captive agents. State Farm agents serve close to 67...
Jul 18 2000 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Company has increased its statewide average rate increase by 1 percent for Ohio homeowners insurance policyholders, including renters and condominium unit owners.The new rates were implemented...
Jun 26 2000 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will pay dividends of just over $1 billion to auto insurance policyholders in 49 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces. The return of premiums, approved...