Latest Allstate Headlines
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2001 Market Share For Insurers in Texas
Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...
NAII Says Federal Case Threatens Insurers’ Ability to Use Credit Information
Sep 26 2002 // A U.S. District Court ruling in a federal class-action lawsuit challenging Allstate Insurance Company’s use of credit data in underwriting and rating policies should be reversed because the suit distorts the...
Help for Texas Homeowners from Allstate, UNT
Sep 25 2002 // Allstate Insurance Company and the University of North Texas (UNT) announced the launch of a consumer education Web site, www.insuretexas.org, to help Texans learn about and compare the new homeowners policy forms approved...
Allstate Announces Management, Organizational Changes
Sep 13 2002 // Allstate Corp. announced from its Northbrook Ill. headquarters that Thomas J. Wilson, 44, currently chairman and president of Allstate Financial, will assume the new role of president, Allstate Protection, effective Oct....
Top Three Texas Residential Insurers Under Investigation
Aug 5 2002 // Responding to moves by Farmers Insurance Company to further restrict coverages in homeowners policies it will write in the state, Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor expanded the state insurance department’s...
La. Decides to wait at Least One Month on Allstate Rate Hike Request
Jun 26 2002 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission has deferred action for at least a month on Allstate Insurance Co.’s request for a 19.9 percent rate hike for homeowners and renters insurance, claiming the company had not...
La. Decides to wait at Least One Month on Allstate Rate Hike Request
Jun 26 2002 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission has deferred action for at least a month on Allstate Insurance Co.’s request for a 19.9 percent rate hike for homeowners and renters insurance, claiming the company had not...
Non-adversarial Adjusters Advising Claimants Are Practicing Law, Court Rules
Jun 6 2002 // The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that an insurance claims adjuster who develops a non-adversarial relationship with a person filing a claim and advises that person on settling the claim is practicing law. An adjuster...
Securian Financial, Esurance to Partner
May 29 2002 // St. Paul, Minn.-based Securian Financial Network Inc., a subsidiary of the Minnesota Mutual Companies Inc., announced a partnership with Esurance Inc. to provide Securian’s financial clients with online access to...
Esurance Partners With Provident Credit Union
May 21 2002 // California-based Esurance Inc., a direct-to-consumer personal auto insurance company, and Provident Credit Union recently announced a partnership to provide Provident’s members with online access to personal...
ALLSTATE UNIT MUST PAY $3.8 MILLION
May 13 2002 // A Denton County, Texas, jury ordered Allstate Texas Lloyds to pay actual and exemplary damages of more than $3.8 million in a suit alleging the unit did not pay claims for damage to a home caused by plumbing leaks....
Allstate Gains Calif. Rate Hike Approval
May 6 2002 // Allstate Corp. got the go-ahead from state regulators May 2 to make increases in both auto and homeowner insurance rates, according to the Los Angeles Times. California’s third largest insurer had requested a...
Is the Texas Personal Auto Market Another Homeowners in the Making’
Apr 29 2002 // The personal automobile insurance market in Texas may not be approaching the crisis level at which the homeowners market currently finds itself, but signs indicate that it may be in for a rough ride. According to the Texas...
Allstate Moves 12 Percent of TX Auto Customer to Unregulated Unit
Apr 15 2002 // Citing poor financial performance at its Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance division, Allstate Insurance Co. announced it was moving 264,000 personal auto customers—12 percent of its customers in Texas—to its...
CDI Investigates Philadelphia Resident Caught in Auto Fraud Scheme
Apr 1 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced the arrest of John Martin in his residence by the Philadelphia Police Department Felony Warrant Detail. The arrest warrant was issued on Feb. 5 in Orange Superior...
What Does it Mean to Own Expirations’ Lawsuit Aims to Find Out
Feb 25 2002 // At the heart of a lawsuit filed against Allstate Insurance Company by an independent agent in Garza County, Texas, are the issues of who owns the right to renew policies of customers of an independent agent; what it means...
TDI Looks into Pricing; Mold Task Force Appointed
Jan 28 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance recently opened two fronts in the battle to shore up the weary homeowners market in the state. Responding to consumer complaints about excessive rate increases—exceeding 100 percent in...
Allstate Affirmed
Jan 28 2002 // A.M. Best Co. affirmed the financial strength ratings of the property/casualty and life/health affiliates of The Allstate Corporation. In addition, A.M. Best assigned an “a+” senior debt rating to The Allstate...
Evolving HO Policies Prompt Montemayor to Issue Consumer Alert
Jan 14 2002 // Homeowners insurance policies in Texas are rapidly evolving. As a result, Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor warned the state’s homeowners policyholders to carefully review their policy renewals to...
EEOC SUES, AllSTATE DISAPPOINTED
Jan 14 2002 // The Allstate Corporation has expressed its displeasure with the Equal Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) lawsuit against its Allstate Insurance Company subsidiary over an agency system reorganization. The EEOC...
