An Allstate agents group has filed a brief with a Florida appeals court supporting the Northbrook, Ill., insurer's efforts to prevent the state's regulator from lifting the company's license.

Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty had suspended the company, but last Friday Allstate secured a temporary stay of that action from the Florida First District Court of Appeal. Mr. McCarty filed a motion Wednesday with the court to have the suspension reinstated.

In its friend of court brief the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents Inc. (NAPAA) argued that if Allstate is banned from selling new insurance policies in the state it would do "serious, irreparable harm" to its agent members.

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