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In a survey of national claims handled by the state's leading home insurance companies, affiliates of Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance topped the list, denying about 50% of claims for payment.
In Betty Jo Walker v. Farmers Insurance (2007), Farmers was fined $3 million for not defending a pair of limited-income homeowners from a negligence claim. [33] In Goddard v. Farmers Insurance (2008), Farmers was ordered to pay $2.5 million for handling a claim with bad faith and "stonewalling" during settlement negotiations.
Melinda Ballard (1958–2013) [1] was an American businesswoman and activist for insurance policyholders. In 1999, she sued her insurer over mold damage in her 22-room family home in Dripping Springs, Texas. Her three-year-old son, Reese Allison, developed an unexplained respiratory condition in March 1999.
American Family Insurance was founded on October 3, 1927, [5] when insurance salesman Herman Wittwer opened the doors of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company (not to be confused with the Farmers Insurance Group) in Madison, Wisconsin. At the time, the company's product was auto insurance and its target market was farmers.
The Travelers Insurance Company was founded in Hartford by James G. Batterson, a stone contractor [12] who became aware for the first time of accident insurance for travelers (i.e., an early form of travel insurance) while traveling in England in 1859 from Leamington to London. [13]
The global trade association for the industry, the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation, claims 216 members in 74 countries, in turn representing over 400 insurers. [3] In North America the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) , founded in 1895, is the sole representative of U.S. and Canadian mutual ...
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FMG Insurance (formerly Farmers' Mutual Group) is a mutual insurance company in New Zealand that was established from a merger of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Association, Taranaki Farmers' Mutual Insurance Association and Primary Industries Insurance Company Limited in 1978. [1]