Latest State Farm Headlines
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State Farm Awards ICT $40K Grant to Promote Education Programs
May 2 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state. ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
State Farm Awards ICT $40,000 Grant to Promote Education Programs in Texas
Apr 19 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state. ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
Consumer Group Demands Probe After New York Times Reports on Alleged Bias at State Farm
Apr 4 2022 // A national consumer rights group in late March called on state insurance commissioners to investigate racial bias in claims handling after the New York Times reported on discrimination lawsuits filed against State Farm by...
Consumer Group Demands Probe After Reports of Alleged Bias at State Farm
Mar 29 2022 // A national consumer rights group on Thursday called on state insurance commissioners to investigate racial bias in claims handling after the New York Times reported on discrimination lawsuits filed against State Farm by a...
Florida Appeal Courts Side with Insurers in Attorney Fees, AOB and PIP Cases
Feb 23 2022 // From attorneys’ fees to water damage to reimbursement limits in no-fault auto insurance, Florida appeals courts have sided with insurers in several cases in recent days. Here’s a look: Attorney Fees and Another...
State Farm Sues Tesla For $1.2 Million Over Indiana Car, Garage Fire
Feb 18 2022 // State Farm filed a $1.2 million subrogation claim against Tesla in Indiana federal court on Feb. 16, alleging negligence and strict product liability over a fire that damaged an insured’s car and residence. Two State...
Wisconsin High Court Limits Bodily Injury Coverage to Insured Persons
Feb 17 2022 // An auto insurer is not required to pay underinsured motorist benefits to the son of man who was killed in an auto crash because the father was not insured by its policy, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in an...
State Farm Charges Chiro Clinics with Fraud in Gaming Florida’s PIP Law
Feb 3 2022 // In a federal lawsuit filed this week, State Farm Insurance accuses a chiropractor and his string of Florida clinics of widespread fraud by regularly and falsely claiming that car accident victims needed emergency care, so...
LDI Affirmed in State Farm Hurricane Barry Deductible Case
Jan 11 2022 // A Louisiana administrative hearings panel has ruled that Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon was justified in preventing State Farm from enforcing a hurricane deductible for certain losses caused by Hurricane Barry in July...
State Farm and Generali Join Investors in Computer Vision Startup Nexar
Nov 19 2021 // State Farm and Generali joined the $53 million financing round for Nexar, an artificial intelligence computer vision startup based in New York. The technology startup provides crowdsourced visual data that is...
Court Rules California Insurance Commissioner Cannot Make State Farm Pay Refunds for Overcharges
Nov 2 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara cannot force insurers to repay consumers when they charge excessive rates, the California Court of Appeal in San Diego has ruled. The court held that State Farm will not have...
California Jury Awards $6.3M to Actress in State Farm Fire Suit
Oct 6 2021 // A federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire. The jury found...
Fungus Endorsement Outweighs Resulting Loss in Florida State Farm Case
Oct 5 2021 // A Florida appeals court has reversed a trial judge, finding that a homeowner’s State Farm policy did not cover damages from a septic tank leak because of a fungus endorsement on the policy. In State Farm Florida...
Donelon Doubles Down as State Farm Refuses to Cover Ida Evacuation Costs
Sep 17 2021 // For the second time in a week, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has said he is considering levying fines against insurance companies that continue to refuse to comply with his emergency directive to cover the...
Hagerty and State Farm Partnering on Classic Vehicle Insurance
Aug 12 2021 // State Farm is collaborating with Traverse City, Michigan-based Hagerty to introduce a new insurance product for classic vehicles, State Farm Classic+, beginning in 2022. Hagerty is an automotive lifestyle brand and a...
State Farm Returning $400M to California Auto Customers
Mar 22 2021 // State Farm is returning $400 million to California mutual auto insurance customers due to better than anticipated claim results, the company reported. The announcement comes as the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo...
State Farm Returning $400M to California Auto Customers
Mar 11 2021 // State Farm is returning $400 million to California mutual auto insurance customers due to better than anticipated claim results, the company announced this week. The announcement comes as the California Insurance...
National Fire Protection Association, State Farm Funding Wildfire Preparedness
Feb 4 2021 // The National Fire Protection Association and State Farm have kicked off a funding awards application period for the eighth national Wildfire Community Preparedness Day on Saturday, May 1, which helps communities prepare...
Newfront in California Names State Farm’s De Fazio Field Sales Leader
Dec 9 2020 // Newfront Insurance has added Mic De Fazio as a field sales leader. De Fazio will lead brokers in developing client solutions and continuing the firm’s organic growth. De Fazio will join the sales leadership team. He...
Washington Man Faces Theft, Fraud Charges After Filing $65K in Claims
Nov 18 2020 // Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim...
