Commercial Lines

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by American International Group Inc. against the states Department of Financial Services and its superintendent, Benjamin Lawsky, saying the insurer is trying to interfere with a government probe.

AIG has shrunk by half through a series of asset sales that ended this week with the divestiture of a plane-leasing unit.

Is an earthquake possibly caused by fracking covered? What is a thermal shock, and is it covered? This and more in the FC&S mailbag.

Farmers Insurance filed lawsuits last month against nearly 200 communities in the Chicago area for failing to prepare for flooding.

A bond insurer wants the chance to fight Detroits effort to cancel $1.4 billion in pension debt, while the city is asking a judge to take a bus tour of its blighted areas before ruling on its $18 billion bankruptcy plan.

American International Group Inc. defrauded the U.S. by failing to disclose it was selling insurance without a license during negotiations with the government over a bailout in the financial crisis, a former executive claimed in a lawsuit.