Latest State Farm Headlines
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State Farm, Sandusky End Insurance Coverage Dispute
Jan 28 2013 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. resolved its dispute against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky over the insurer’s homeowners coverage. At issue was whether State Farm would be obligated to...
Louisiana Commissioner Says ‘No’ to State Farm Regional Deductible Plan
Jan 25 2013 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has denied a request by State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (State Farm) to introduce a regional deductible plan for its Louisiana homeowner’s program. Donelon said the...
State Farm, Sandusky End Insurance Coverage Dispute
Jan 16 2013 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. resolved its dispute against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky over the insurer’s homeowners coverage. At issue was whether State Farm would be obligated to...
Delaware Regulators Fine State Farm $150K Over Non-Renewal Notices
Dec 14 2012 // Delaware’s insurance department announced it has fined State Farm Fire and Casualty Company a $150,000 penalty for failing to include in some of its non-renewal notices a written explanation of the specific reasons...
Adjusters Battling Power, Phone Outage, Long Gas Lines, Blocked Roads
Nov 15 2012 // Major insurers have deployed thousands of claims adjusters in the Northeast in the wake of Superstorm Sandy — they are working from dawn until late night to make contacts with policyholders, complete the estimate...
Sandy Claims Figure Update From State Farm, Nationwide
Nov 6 2012 // Sandy-related claims are coming in at a fast pace, major insurers say. State Farm Insurance said it received approximately 90,000 Sandy-related claims (76,100 property claims and 13,900 auto claims) as of end of day Nov....
Some Sandy Victims Wait As Insurance Adjusters Wait for Access, Prioritize Claims
Nov 5 2012 // Pat Groover called her insurance company on Tuesday morning, the day after a massive tree gave in to storm Sandy’s winds, ripped the front off a neighbor’s house and pulled siding and gutters off of...
Sandy Claims Continue to Pour In at Quick Pace
Nov 2 2012 // Insurers said Sandy-related claims have been pouring in at a rapid pace in the immediate days after the storm — and that as some sense of normalcy returns, many more claims are expected. The Progressive Corp. CEO...
Florida Court Weighs When Not Meeting Policy Terms Means Coverage Forfeiture
Nov 1 2012 // Florida’s high court is debating whether a driver forfeited her uninsured motorist coverage by refusing to meet the insurer’s specific requirement to undergo a scheduled medical exam. The state Supreme Court...
West Virginia Tops State Farm’s Deer-Vehicle Crash List
Oct 25 2012 // State Farm says West Virginia continues to be the state where a vehicle is most likely to hit a deer. The Mountain State tops State Farm’s annual list for the sixth consecutive year. The Bloomington, Ill.-based...
Florida Approves State Farm 6.4% Increase
Oct 8 2012 // Florida regulators have approved an average 6.9 percent homeowners’ insurance rate hike for State Farm Florida Insurance Co. It is the insurer’s fifth increase in as many years. In addition to the increase for...
Florida Approves State Farm 6.4% Homeowners Rate Increase
Sep 28 2012 // Florida regulators have approved an average 6.9 percent rate hike for State Farm Florida Insurance Co., which is the insurer’s fifth increase in as many years. The insurer had initially sought an average 14.9 percent...
State Farm Lloyds Files Homeowners Rate Increase in Texas
Sep 13 2012 // State Farm Lloyds says it intends to increase homeowners rates in Texas by an average 20 percent. The company announced it has submitted a rate filing to the Texas Department of Insurance. The actual premium change for any...
Texas DA Investigating State Farm Hurricane Claims
Sep 9 2012 // Texas investigators have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled what may turn out to be thousands of insurance claims from Gulf Coast homeowners involving damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, officials...
Tennessee Court: Parents’ Emotional Distress Not Covered by Auto Policy
Sep 4 2012 // Tennessee’s high court has ruled that two parents’ emotional distress following an automobile accident that took the life of their son is not covered under the uninsured motorist portion of their automobile...
State Farm Sues Sandusky Over Policy Coverage
Aug 6 2012 // State Farm has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania on July 19 against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. In its complaint, State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. asked a judge to declare that the...
State Farm Pulling Its Ads From Penn State Football Broadcasts
Jul 26 2012 // State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the school’s credit rating, suggesting the...
Florida Regulators Question State Farm’s 57% Rate Hike for Landlords
Jul 26 2012 // Florida regulators are expressing concern over a State Farm Florida proposed statewide average 57.3 percent rate hike in insurance rates for landlords that will result in higher premiums while the insurer continues not to...
State Farm: Sandusky’s Homeowners Policy Doesn’t Cover His Legal Bills
Jul 23 2012 // State Farm has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania last Thursday against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. In its complaint, State Farm asked a judge to declare that the insurer’s...
State Farm’s Ziemann Elected IASA President
Jul 3 2012 // The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association Inc. (IASA) has elected Louise Ziemann of State Farm to serve as president of the association for the 2012 – 2013 fiscal year. Ziemann holds both the CPCU and CLU...
