Latest Allstate Headlines
All the headlines from our Allstate Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Allstate Acquires Sterling Collision Centers
May 15 2001 // The Allstate Corporation recently announced it has acquired Sterling Collision Centers Inc., which operates a network of 39 auto collision repair stores in seven states and nine metropolitan locations. According to George...
Esurance Partners with California Coast
May 1 2001 // Esurance Inc., a national quote-to-claims Internet-based provider of personal auto insurance, and California Coast Credit Union, one of San Diego’s largest credit unions, announced a partnership to provide its...
Prudential plc To Acquire Allstate Life Business in The Philippines, Indonesia
Apr 25 2001 // Britain’s Prudential plc will further expand its operations in Asia with the acquisition of Allstate’s majority holdings in two life insurance companies in The Philippines and Indonesia. Allstate said it was...
Allstate to Raise Rates in Seven States
Apr 21 2001 // Allstate Corporation, the second largest auto insurer, has received approval from seven state insurance departments to raise premiums rates on average of 3.3 percent. This increase comes after a raise in rates of about 12...
ALLSTATE CEO GETS ALL-STAR RAISE
Apr 2 2001 // Even as Allstate Corp. awarded its Chief Executive Edward Liddy a 14 percent pay increase last year, the company’s year-end results were mixed. Net profit for the year fell 19 percent to $2.2 billion, largely due to...
Agents at the Capitol
Apr 2 2001 // There were about 11 of them in the House insurance committee hearing room. These 11 Allstate “independent contractor” agents had left San Antonio that morning just after 7 a.m. They were joined by a few State...
Allstate Results Mixed, Liddy Pay Increased by 14 Percent
Mar 27 2001 // Even as Allstate Corp. awarded its Chief Executive Edward Liddy a 14 percent pay increase last year, the company’s year-end results were mixed. Net profit for the year fell 19 percent to $2.2 billion, largely due to...
Allstate Raises Rates, Others May Not Be Far Behind
Mar 14 2001 // Allstate Insurance, which insures 2.1 million drivers in California, Plans to raise premiums by 6.9 percent–a move that could force other companies to do the same, according to an article published yesterday in The...
Allstate Wins Landmark Fraud Case
Mar 12 2001 // On March 8, Allstate Corp., the second-largest auto insurer, was awarded $8.2 million in a landmark fraud case involving nine medical clinics accused of billing for treatments that were never rendered, according to an...
AUSTIN ALLSTATE OFFICE TO SHRINK
Mar 5 2001 // Allstate Corp. may lay off as many as 80 of its employees in Austin as a result of the company’s decision to merge its Austin-based Columbia Universal Life division into Allstate Financial Group by September. The...
Allstate Goes Direct Through InsWeb Portal
Feb 27 2001 // InsWeb and Allstate Insurance Co. have entered into a two-year services agreement under which Allstate will market its auto, homeowners, renters and condominium insurance products at InsWeb’s online...
ANOTHER NORTHRIDGE AFTERSHOCK
Feb 26 2001 // The Alliance of American Insurers, based in Downers Grove, Ill., along with several other insurance groups, filed an amicus curiae brief on Feb. 15 with the California Court of Appeal in Basich v. Allstate Insurance Co....
CALLING ALL YOUNG AGENTS
Feb 26 2001 // The Young Brokers and Agents Committee (YBAC) has been hard at work planning the 26th Annual Young Brokers & Agents Conference. Named “Best in the Nation” for the past four years by the Independent...
Alliance Files Amicus Brief in
Feb 20 2001 // The Alliance of American Insurers, based in Downers Grove, Ill., along with several other insurance groups, filed an amicus curiae brief Feb. 15 with the California Court of Appeal in Basich v. Allstate Insurance Co. The...
Investigation Closed on Allstate’s Handling of Northridge Quake Claims
Feb 9 2001 // The Allstate Insurance Company has been advised by the Los Angeles United States Attorney’s office that the investigation initiated into Allstate’s handling of claims arising from the 1994 Northridge earthquake...
Allstate Agent Talks Break Down
Feb 8 2001 // Talks between Allstate Corp. and more than 300 of its captive agents to settle a long-running dispute over contractual changes have broken down. The insurer faces complaints regarding its 1999 plan to convert agent...
Esurance Extends Auto Insurance to Nebraska, Utah
Jan 24 2001 // Esurance Inc., a national quote-to-claims Internet-based provider of personal insurance, has expanded its auto insurance business to 26 states with the addition of Nebraska and Utah. Esurance now offers auto insurance...
Allstate Ranks Among S&P’s Top Stock Picks for 2001
Jan 17 2001 // In a recent chat with BusinessWeek Online and Standard & Poor’s on America Online, Kenneth A. Shea, vice president and director of Standard & Poor’s Equity Research & Services, presented a...
Allstate Floridian’s ‘BBBpi’ Affirmed
Dec 25 2000 // The “BBBpi” FSR on Allstate Floridian Insurance Co. was affirmed by S&P, which cited the company’s extremely strong capitalization, offset by marginal and volatile operating performance and high...
Former Agents Sue Allstate Insurance Co.
Dec 21 2000 // Five former Allstate Insurance Co. agents who worked in Florida, Georgia and Oregon, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the insurer, seeking payment for three years of overtime wages. According to a report from...
