State Farm, the largest private property-casualty insurer in Texas, said it has deployed a battalion of personnel in that state and Florida to deal with Hurricane Ike.

The Bloomington, Ill.-based carrier, which has 21 percent of the Texas market, said it has a thousand team members staffing high-tech, centralized catastrophe services in Dallas and Jacksonville, Fla., and is steadily increasing staff in the face of the storm.

It also said it had spread hundreds of claim representatives, associates, agents and staff across Ike's potential impact area.

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