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Texas District Judge Allows Allstate Texas Lloyd’s Rate Increase
Oct 17 2007 // On Oct. 15, Travis County District Judge Margaret Cooper ruled in favor of Allstate Texas Lloyd’s in the company’s quest to preserve an already-implemented homeowners rate increase. Cooper granted the...
Florida Subpoenas Allstate Over Home Insurance Rate Increases, Industry Ties
Oct 16 2007 // Florida officials have subpoenaed Allstate Insurance and its subsidiaries to get the insurer to explain why it is not lowering homeowners insurance rates in the state and to defend its dealings with the industry’s...
Ky. Jury Rejects $1.4 Billion Case Involving Allstate
Oct 12 2007 // A jury in Lexington, Ky., ruled in favor of Allstate Insurance Co., in a lawsuit brought by a woman who challenged the insurance giant’s claims procedure. The jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday afternoon...
People and Places
Oct 8 2007 // The Insurance Marketing Communications Association named its 2007/2008 slate of directors and officers, with Cora Barran of Farmers Insurance Group continuing as IMCA president for her second year. Barran is director of...
People and Places
Oct 8 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) promoted Jamie Bourg to claims manager for the company’s large accounts team. Bourg will manage and direct the claims department, including claims handling and...
People and Places
Oct 8 2007 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Cos.(NAMIC) named SECURA Insurance President and CEO John Bykowski as the chairman of its board of directors during the association’s annual convention Sept. 16-19 at...
People
Oct 8 2007 // The Insurance Marketing Communications Association named its 2007/2008 slate The Insurance Marketing Communications Association named its 2007/2008 slate of directors and officers, with Cora Barran of Farmers Insurance...
People
Oct 8 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) promoted Jamie Bourg to claims manager for the company’s large accounts team. Bourg will manage and direct the claims department, including claims handling and...
Allstate Investment Unit Opens First Overseas Office in London
Oct 5 2007 // Allstate Investment Management Limited — an indirect wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of The Allstate Corp. — has crossed over borders with the opening of Allstate Investment’s first overseas...
Trial Opens in Kentucky Case Against Allstate
Oct 4 2007 // An attorney representing a Kentucky woman suing Allstate Insurance Co. in a $1.4 billion trial accused the insurance giant of using delay tactics and schemes to prod injury victims into accepting lower offers for pain and...
Allstate Insurance Co. Civil Trial Begins in Kentucky
Oct 2 2007 // A civil trial regarding Allstate Insurance Co.’s procedures for handling claims began in Fayette County Circuit Court this week. Geneva Hager, of Richmond, Ky., filed a $1.425 billion civil lawsuit claiming the...
Lombino to lead Encompass Insurance Southern Region
Sep 25 2007 // Dan Lombino has been promoted to regional sales director for the Southern Region of Encompass Insurance. Part of the Allstate group of companies, Encompass provides insurance products through a network of independent...
Allstate to comply with N.Y. anti-tying rule
Sep 24 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. and its affiliates have agreed to comply fully with a directive by the New York State Insurance Department that insurance companies may not refuse to renew homeowners insurance policies based on...
Allstate opening service center in Las Cruces
Sep 24 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. announced it is opening a customer service center in Las Cruces, N.M., that is expected bring in more than 200 jobs to the area. The city’s bilingual employee base and a good business...
Telgenhoff Promoted to Allstate Management in Calif.
Sep 19 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. announced that Phil Telgenhoff has been elevated to assistant field vice president for the Allstate California Region. In his new position, Telgenhoff will supervise senior distribution leaders...
Allstate Opening Service Center in Las Cruces
Sep 17 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. announced it is opening a customer service center in Las Cruces, N.M., that is expected bring in more than 200 jobs to the area. The city’s bilingual employee base and a good business...
Allstate to Comply with N.Y. Anti-Tying Rule on Home Nonrenewals
Sep 12 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. and its affiliates have agreed to comply fully with a directive by the New York State Insurance Department that insurance companies may not refuse to renew homeowners insurance policies based on...
Allstate Balks at N.Y. Ban on Tying Home Renewals to Other Business
Sep 5 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. is defending its right to non-renew certain homeowner insurance accounts in New York based in part on whether the insureds also have auto or life policies with the company. The non-renewal tactic is...
La. district court: Allstate trial exhibits must remain open
Sep 3 2007 // Certain trial exhibits that were elemental in a recently settled wind vs. water case in Louisiana must remain part of the public record, a Louisiana district court judge ruled. United States District Judge Sarah Vance in...
Allstate says it will raise rates in Texas despite state’s opposition
Sep 3 2007 // Allstate will raise its homeowners’ insurance rates despite a state order not to and a request by the state’s consumer advocate to fine the company for each policy it renews at the new rate. “We continue...
