The lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to increases in drivers’ insurance rates.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit against Allstate alleging the company covertly monitored customers' driving habits in a bid to raise rates.

Paxton accuses Allstate of collecting driver location and movement data without consent to raise insurance rates in the state.

Allstate has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the insurer of unlawfully collecting consumers' driving data and then using the data to justify raising insurance rates. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Monday that Allstate,