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S&P Lowers Outlook on Allstate and Subs to Negative; Affirms Ratings

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Allstate Corp., Allstate Insurance Co. (AIC), and its core property-liability insurance companies (collectively, Allstate Protection), as well as the life insurance companies, deemed strategically important to the group (collectively, Allstate …

Allstate Suffers $1 Bilion in Disaster Losses in Q3

Allstate Corp. posted a sharply smaller profit for the third quarter, as the largest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the United States lost more than $1 billion due to natural disasters. Allstate also said it completed a $1 …

Allstate’s Q3 Disaster Losses Top $1 Billion

Allstate Corp. suffered nearly $1.1 billion in catastrophe losses in the third quarter, the country’s largest publicly traded home and auto insurer said Thursday. That is half of what Allstate lost in the second quarter, when parts of the United …

Allstate Closes on $1 Billion Acquisition of Esurance, Answer Financial

The Allstate Corp. said it has obtained all required regulatory approvals and closed its acquisition of Esurance and Answer Financial from White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. The purchase price was approximately $1 billion. The transaction is expected to be non-dilutive …

Pennsylvania Court Upholds Motorcyclist ‘On,’ ‘Off’ Exclusion

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that an exclusion in underinsured motorist coverage for injuries incurred while on a motorcycle applies to motorcyclists injured after being thrown off their bikes. An underinsured motorist coverage from Allstate contained an exclusion for injuries …

Allstate Reports $500M in Losses from Hurricane Irene

Allstate Corp. lost $500 million on Hurricane Irene, the largest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the United States said Thursday, much less than it lost from tornadoes earlier this year. In total, Allstate said its July and August …

Home Insurers in Georgia Seek Rate Hikes

A year after most Georgia insurers increased homeowners premiums by 9 to 23 percent, a new wave of increase requests is pending. State Farm, Georgia’s largest writer of homeowners policies, is seeking a 7 percent increase for next year. That …

Ealy In, Young Out as President at Allstate’s Encompass

Allstate Insurance Co. said Thomas V. Ealy will become president of its independent agency unit, Encompass Insurance, on Sept. 12. Ealy will replace Cynthia Young, president since 2006, who has left the company. Encompass, which sells home and auto policies …

Allstate Files $5 Million Insurance Fraud Case in New York

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $5 million against 10 New York area defendants in its fourth insurance fraud lawsuit of 2011. Since 2003, Allstate has filed 31 fraud lawsuits in New York State, seeking more than $170 million …

Allstate Sues Goldman Sachs Over Toxic Mortgage Securities

Allstate Corp. is suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc., saying more than $122 million in mortgage-backed securities the insurance company bought beginning in 2006 were fraudulent. Allstate said in a statement that it filed the lawsuit in New York state court …