Kurt Busch wrecked his car during a practice drive Saturday and will have to start Sunday's Allstate 400 in 43rd place. Busch drove to a third-place finish in the qualifiers moments before the accident.

AP - The owners of the sagging, flood-stained home aren't in. Above the front door, a banner explains their absence, and the lack of progress: "Allstate paid $10,113.34 on this house for storm damage."

AP - The owners of the sagging, flood-stained home aren't in. Above the front door, a banner explains their absence, and the lack of progress: "Allstate paid $10,113.34 on this house for storm damage."

Total Injury, Inc. at www.TotalInjury.com and the attorneys who sponsor the website have long warned that insurance companies did not have injury victim’s best interests at heart and have provided resources and arranged free attorney consultations to help protect consumers against insurance company tactics. A new book due out this summer confirms those concerns, and multiplies them. David Berardinelli’s "From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves" exposes the radical “new approach” to claims processing that Allstate instituted in 1995 to increase profits by minimizing claim payouts. With several other major insurance carriers taking advice from the same industry consultant, it is all the more important that injury victims protect their rights with accurate information and solid legal advice.

Total Injury, Inc. at www.TotalInjury.com and the attorneys who sponsor the website have long warned that insurance companies did not have injury victim’s best interests at heart and have provided resources and arranged free attorney consultations to help protect consumers against insurance company tactics. A new book due out this summer confirms those concerns, and multiplies them. David Berardinelli’s "From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves" exposes the radical “new approach” to claims processing that Allstate instituted in 1995 to increase profits by minimizing claim payouts. With several other major insurance carriers taking advice from the same industry consultant, it is all the more important that injury victims protect their rights with accurate information and solid legal advice.

Nearly 1,000 Allstate Corp. employees have accepted a voluntary buyout offer, which is hundreds more than the insurance company expected when it announced the offer months ago. Allstate is the second-largest U.S. personal-lines insurer...

Reuters - Allstate Corp. said on Monday that it wasn't renewing some of its homeowners' policies in the New York City area for fears that a major hurricane could strike in the area, leaving the insurer overexposed.