Latest Allied Insurance Headlines
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Charity-Focused GoodWorks Agency Offers Business Model Nationwide
Nov 14 2006 // GoodWorks Insurance, a new insurance ageny that gives half of its profits to local non-profits in accordance with a unique charitable contract, is expanding its business model to permit its use by established insurance...
Nationwide Insurance Seeks Arbitration on Fla. Rate Request
Nov 13 2006 // Nationwide Insurance said it will seek arbitration in its effort to increase homeowners rates after being turned down by state regulators for an increase that would have been more than 70 percent on average. The company...
Judge Denies Miss. Couple New Trial on Storm Surge Coverage
Nov 3 2006 // A federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss. couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in Gulfport after Hurricane Katrina spawned hundreds of...
Fla. Nixes 71% Hike by Nationwide
Oct 19 2006 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has issued a notice of intent to deny a request by Nationwide Insurance Company of Florida to increase residential property insurance rates by a statewide average of 71.5...
Citizens Names Walker Interim President; Begins Nationwide Search
Oct 3 2006 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s board of governors appointed an interim president this week and also voted to hold a national search for a permanent replacement for Robert Ricker, who resigned a week ago...
French Protesters Urge Nationwide Anti-Asbestos Lawsuit
Oct 3 2006 // Thousands of protesters gathered this past weekend at a landmark Paris tower once lined with asbestos to demand a nationwide lawsuit against those who allowed workers to be exposed to the hazardous substance. Relatives of...
Public Hearings Set for Nationwide, USAA Rate Filings in Fla.
Sep 15 2006 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has scheduled public hearings for Sept. 19 and 26 on rate filings submitted by Nationwide Insurance Company of Florida, United Services Automobile Association, USAA...
Nationwide Health Insurance to Cut 350 Jobs in Ohio, Calif.
Sep 14 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Health Plans, an affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. that provides health insurance in Ohio and California, will begin cutting about 350 jobs next year, a spokesman for the larger...
First post-Katrina court decision a victory for insurers
Sep 4 2006 // On Aug. 15, 2006, a decision was handed down in the first post-Katrina insurance lawsuit to go to trial. Because there are thousands of lawsuits raising the same claims with millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake,...
State Farm Trying to Improve its Image After Hurricane Katrina
Aug 16 2006 // Representatives of State Farm Insurance Co. are on a media tour in Mississippi to give a more positive image to the company as it and others in the industry fend off lawsuits filed in the aftermath of Hurricane...
Judge Rules in Favor of Insurer in Miss. Wind vs. Water Case
Aug 15 2006 // In a highly anticipated ruling in one of the first wind vs. water insurance claims arising out of Hurricane Katrina, a Mississippi judge has upheld the exclusion for damage caused by water and water-borne materials in an...
Miss. Judge Has Katrina Insurance Lawsuit Case
Jul 21 2006 // A groundbreaking case that challenges one of the nation’s largest insurers for refusing to cover damage from Hurricane Katrina’s monster storm surge went into the hands of a federal judge on Wednesday. U.S....
First Katrina Insurance Trial Set for Closing Arguments
Jul 20 2006 // A federal judge heard closing arguments Wednesday in the first courtroom challenge of the insurance industry’s denial of billions of dollars of homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge...
Agent Says He Never Advised Couple Against Buying Flood Insurance
Jul 17 2006 // The agent at the center of a landmark hurricane insurance case on Friday denied telling a policyholder that he didn’t need flood insurance years before Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. denied much of his claim...
Retired Meteorologist Testifies in Katrina Dispute
Jul 14 2006 // Some of Hurricane Katrina’s highest winds, not water, damaged the home of a couple suing their insurance company, an engineer testified Wednesday in what could be a landmark federal trial. Paul and Julie Leonard of...
Judges Refuses to Toss Testimony About Katrina’s Winds
Jul 14 2006 // A judge on Thursday refused to throw out an engineer’s testimony that Hurricane Katrina’s winds caused much of the damage to the home of Mississippi couple suing Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. for denying most...
Miss. Trial Could Help Decide Claims from Hurricane Katrina
Jul 12 2006 // Hurricane Katrina left thousands of Gulf Coast homeowners battling their insurance companies. A Mississippi police officer and his wife are the first to take their fight to court. A federal judge on Monday began hearing a...
Attorneys Arrive in Miss. for Opening of First Katrina Insurance Lawsuit
Jul 11 2006 // Attorneys carried files and exhibits into a Mississippi federal courthouse Monday for what they expect to be a groundbreaking trial on whether insurance policyholders who lost homes in Hurricane Katrina are entitled to...
Nationwide Requests 71 Percent Homeowners Increase in Florida
Jul 6 2006 // Nationwide Insurance Company of Florida has filed with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation for a statewide average increase in homeowner’s insurance rates of 71 percent. The Office of Insurance has 90 days to...
Nationwide, The Hartford Honored by Insurance Marketing Group
Jul 6 2006 // Nationwide Insurance received the top honor and The Hartford received seven Best of Show awards at the Insurance Marketing Communications Association (IMCA) 2006 Showcase Awards, held during the IMCA annual meeting on June...
