Allstate kept its Florida companies in operation yesterday, filing a motion with an appeals court asking it to reexamine the state insurance commissioner's order to stop writing new business.

By making the request for a rehearing by the Florida First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, the company can keep selling new policies while the case, sparked by a state request for Allstate documents, is pending.

The First District had lifted a stay of Commissioner Kevin McCarty's order on April 4; however, it gave the company until yesterday to file for a rehearing.

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