Latest State Farm Headlines
All the headlines from our State Farm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Farm Won’t Add New Flood Policies but Agents Will Still Sell Them
Jun 8 2010 // State Farm Insurance Co. has decided to discontinue writing new flood insurance policies with the National Flood Insurance Program but the company says it will still service existing policies and State Farm agents will...
State Farm First To Offer Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance in Calif.
Jun 1 2010 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is the first insurer to submit an application to the California Department of Insurance to offer a program that rewards drivers who voluntarily drive fewer miles with lower auto...
State Farm First Insurer to Apply to Offer Californians Pay-As-You-Go
May 26 2010 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.is the first insurer to submit an application to offer an program that rewards California drivers who voluntarily drive fewer miles with lower auto insurance rates. State Farm is...
State Farm to Seek Home Insurance Rate Hike in Mississippi
May 26 2010 // State Farm will file a rate increase with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney in the next few months. Company spokesman David Majors said that details are still being worked out. Last year, State Farm boosted...
State Farm Gets 9.9% Homeowners Rate Hike in Louisiana
May 10 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Louisiana’s largest residential insurer, has been approved for an average 9.9 percent rate increase for homeowners’ coverage in Louisiana. However, coastal areas vulnerable to...
Judge Sides with State Farm in Rate Hike Information Case
May 3 2010 // A judge in Austin has blocked regulators from posting on the Texas Department of Insurance Web site certain documents on two rate filings by State Farm Insurance Cos. that would increase homeowners insurance premiums for...
Ratings Roundup: Reserve National, Alaska Timber, State Farm (NJ)
Apr 29 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services is keeping its ‘A’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Reserve National Insurance Co. on CreditWatch with negative implications. “We had...
Auto Insurers Begin Process of Recouping Losses from Toyota
Apr 20 2010 // Insurance companies are gearing up to recoup from Toyota money they paid for claims in crashes involving sudden acceleration, the subject of major safety recalls by the Japanese automaker. It could also mean money back for...
State Farm Sues TDI; Files to Increase Homeowners Rates in Louisiana
Apr 19 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Insurance after the state agency took the unprecedented move of publicizing on its Web site recent rate hike proposals by the...
Judge Says Texas Can’t Post Some State Farm Rate Hike Information
Apr 19 2010 // A judge in Austin has blocked regulators from posting on the Texas Department of Insurance Web site some documents on two rate rate filings by State Farm Insurance Cos. that would increase homeowners insurance premiums for...
State Farm Sues Texas Department of Insurance Over Web Postings
Apr 1 2010 // State Farm Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Insurance after the state agency took the unprecedented move of publicizing on its Web site recent rate hikes by the company. Texas’ largest...
State Farm Files to Increase Homeowners Rates in Louisiana
Mar 31 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has filed an average 9.9 percent rate increase request for homeowners coverage in Louisiana, according to the Associated Press. State Farm is Louisiana’s largest home insurer with...
Business Moves
Mar 22 2010 // Kinsale Capital Kinsale Capital Group has formed a Virginia-based E&S insurer, called Kinsale Insurance Co., which will underwrite commercial property/casualty and professional liability E&S lines in 31 states...
Ratings Recap: GIC India, Top Layer Re, AIA (Australia), PartnerRe (notes)
Mar 15 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), both with stable outlooks. The ratings...
State Farm to Offer Storm Mitigation Credits in Mississippi
Mar 4 2010 // State Farm will offer discounts in Mississippi beginning May 1 for homes and rental property strengthened against wind damage. Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told The Sun Herald that he approved State Farm’s plan...
State Farm Follows ‘Lose-One, Write-One’ Policy in Mississippi
Feb 26 2010 // State Farm gave consumers one part of its policy change when it announced eight months ago it would resume issuing insurance policies in Mississippi. What the company didn’t say is it is writing policies on a...
New Florida Legislative Session Faces Familiar Insurance Problems
Feb 24 2010 // Randi Schuknecht worried that her longtime, established insurance company was about to leave Florida — and leave her without a homeowner’s policy. So she found a new insurer — one she wouldn’t have...
State Farm Homeowners Rate Increase Denied in Louisiana
Feb 21 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon declined to approve a rate request filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company that would have raised homeowners insurance rates by a statewide average of 19.1 percent. State...
Louisiana Commissioner Denies State Farm’s 19% Rate Increase
Feb 11 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has declined to approve a rate request filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company that would have raised homeowners insurance rates by a statewide average of 19.1...
State Farm Says It Warned U.S. Officials About Toyota Accident Trend in 2007
Feb 8 2010 // Private insurer State Farm informed a U.S. government regulator of a worrying trend of vehicle-caused accidents involving Toyota Motor Corp. as far back as late 2007, an official at the company said. “When you start...
