Allstate announced Tuesday it had provided automated hail estimating to victims of a recent Colorado hailstorm, the first of the nations Big 4 insurers to offer the new technology on the ground. Nationwide, the countrys No. 8 private passenger auto insurer in 2014 with 3.85 percent of the market, had announced in April a similar trailer-size structure was available. (Its unclear if Allstate or Nationwide was first to roll the device out on the ground in the past.) But Allstates size about 2.5 times larger with $3.53 billion in premiums earned, according to NAIC should give both collision and paintless dent repairers as well as fellow insurers even greater reason to take notice.
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