State Farm News
State Farm Implements 27% Rate Increase for Illinois Homeowners
State Farm is implementing a significant rate hike for Illinois homeowners, citing more frequent severe weather events and rising home replacement costs that are driving up the cost and frequency of ...
CDI Announces Investigation of State Farm Wildfire Claims Handling
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday announced a formal investigation into State Farm's handling of thousands of insurance claims from wildfire survivors affected by the ...
Viewpoint: California’s Property Insurance Crisis and the Path to Reform
California's property insurance market remains in turmoil, exacerbated by escalating wildfire risks, insurer withdrawals and systemic shortcomings in the state's safety net—the California FAIR ...
State Farm Still Wants a 30% Rate Increase in California
State Farm isn't done seeking a rate increase in California, upping its request a week after getting the OK for a large rate hike to what the company had originally wanted before being rejected and ...
Too Late? S&P Downgrades State Farm General (Updated)
Standard & Poor's Global Ratings announced a two-notch downgrade of State Farm General on May 13—on the same day that California's regulator approved an interim emergency homeowners rate ...
State Farm’s Emergency Homeowners Rate Hike Gets OK in California
State Farm General can move ahead with a proposal to raise California homeowners rates on an emergency interim basis, following years of financial stresses that depleted its surplus and billions of ...
Dog Bite Claims Soar in Frequency and Cost: Report
Insurers in the U.S. paid out $1.57 billion in dog-related injury claims in 2024, according to data compiled by the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and State Farm. The number of dog bite ...
Is State Farm General Too Big to Fail? Calif. Rate Hearing Concludes
"Too big to fail"—a phrase associated with interconnected publicly traded financial services companies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis—was revived in a new context last week. During a ...