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State Farm Increases Cost of Los Angeles Wildfires to $5.7 Billion, Cites 'Real Progress'
Los Angeles for the foreseeable future. It said some policyholders are still making decisions about recovery. Earlier it reported paying more than $5 billion to auto, homeowners ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 27, 2026
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Federal Court Considering State Farm Motion on RICO Allegations Tied to Claims Practices
Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.'s actions before and after California's Palisades wildfires. In January 2025, the plaintiff's home was "completely reduced to ashes" following the ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 26, 2026
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State Farm Says LA Wildfire Losses Hit $5 Billion as County, Regulators Investigate Claims Handling
State Farm General Insurance Co.'s handling of claims submitted in the wake of the Easton and Palisades fires in January. It seeks a trove of documents related to human and ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 9, 2025
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Illinois Insurance Director Files Lawsuit to Force State Farm National Homeowners Data Release
Illinois customers or the cost of their insurance." A hearing is set for Dec. 15 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The Illinois Department of Insurance's demand in the ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 15, 2025
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Lawsuit Accuses State Farm of AI Misuse, Discrimination
State Farm Insurance Co. is facing allegations it violated discrimination laws and other state and federal laws when it denied and canceled policies by using "cheat-and-defeat AI ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 7, 2025
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California Commissioner Adopts Judge's Approval of State Farm Interim Rates of Up to 38%
Judge Karl-Fredric Seligman in a May 12 decision. He called the move legal and "appropriate in this instance" and the "only practical means of stabilization" for its homeowners ...
Source: BestWire Date: May 13, 2025
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Appeals Court Reverses COVID Class-Action Bid Against State Farm
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. should have been granted a dismissal of a putative class action filed by Elegant Massage LLC for ...
Source: BestWire Date: March 12, 2024
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APCIA: Prop 103 Contributes to State Farm’s California Property Insurance Freeze
State Farm General Insurance Co.'s decision to halt writing new property coverage in California due to the threat of wildfires was driven at least in part by the state's "outdated" ...
Source: BestWire Date: May 30, 2023
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Florida OIR Orders 1% Emergency Assessment to Pay Guaranty Association Claims
Michael and Ian and potentially others, the order said. FIGA asked the Florida Insurance Assistance Interlocal Agency to float a short-term bond anticipation note of $150 million ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 18, 2023
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Insurers Sue Texas Grid Operator, Power Companies for 2021 Winter Storm Losses
Texas Department of Insurance. An attempt to obtain comment from ERCOT was not successful. The Insurance Council of Texas said it had no role in the filing of the lawsuit. ERCOT ...
Source: BestWire Date: January 5, 2022
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Judge Sides With State Farm, Dismisses Complaint Over Wildfires Coverage
Judge Edward Chen, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, dismissed most of the claims against State Farm and software developer Verisk Analytics Inc. ...
Source: BestWire Date: July 12, 2019
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Jury Trial to Start Sept. 4 in $6 Billion RICO Lawsuit Against State Farm
David Herndon, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, ordered the trial to start to resolve a class-action lawsuit brought by up to 4.7 million State ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 31, 2018
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US Supreme Court Upholds Ruling Against State Farm in Hurricane Katrina Cost-Shifting Case
Katrina damage onto the government rather than covering the damages itself. The court ruled 8-0 on behalf of sisters Cori and Kerri Rigsby, who worked for a firm hired by State ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 6, 2016
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State Farm Whistleblowers Case Heard Before US Supreme Court
State Farm to help adjust claims after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The sisters secretly took State Farm claims documents and filed a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging the insurer ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 1, 2016
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Court Allows Class-Action Lawsuit to Go Forward Against State Farm
Judge David Herndon, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, approved the class certification in a lawsuit brought by up to 4.7 million State Farm ...
Source: BestWire Date: September 20, 2016
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State Farm Wants Florida Supreme Court to Hear Dispute With Hospital Over PIP Charges
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. wants the Florida Supreme Court to consider a case to determine how much information Shands Jacksonville Medical Center should provide ...
Source: BestWire Date: July 29, 2015
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Mississippi AG Seeks Damages From Alleged State Farm Mischaracterization of Post-Katrina Claims
Farm Fire and Casualty Co., seeking recovery of losses the state suffered when the company allegedly mischaracterized wind damage as flood damage through coercion of engineering ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 22, 2015
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Health Care Service Corp. Joins With State Farm to Sell Health Insurance in Five States
Health Care Service Corp. and State Farm are teaming up to sell health insurance during the next open enrollment period that kicks off Nov. 15 under the U.S. health reform law. ...
Source: BestWire Date: September 24, 2014
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Mississippi Auto Shops Claim Insurers Acted to 'Control and Depress' Repair Costs
State Farm is singled out several times in the suit. State Farm Group in 2012 had 26.45% of the Mississippi private passenger auto physical damage market, according to BestLink, ...
Source: BestWire Date: January 10, 2014
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Court Upholds $14.5 Million Defamation Verdict Against State Farm
Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for defaming a contractor following a massive 2006 hailstorm that brought in nearly 50,000 claims for State Farm. State Farm wanted the appeals court to ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 15, 2013
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