The Department of Housing and Urban Development has finalized a federal regulation it says introduces uniform disparate-impact criteria to the sale of homeowners insurance, prompting claims of regulatory overreach by industry officials.

New Yorks workers compensation system would undergo a sweeping overhaul under a blueprint outlined in Gov. Andrew Cuomos proposed budget.

While insurance-industry representatives are throwing their support behind a bill to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act in its current form, recent comments from other interests show that TRIA proponents will have their work cut out for them to prove that the program is still necessary.

Federal regulators are tightening the rules governing the small but highly profitable force-placed Homeowners insurance market.

The House today introduced legislation that would extend the current Terrorism Risk Insurance Act until the end of 2019, representing the opening round of what is expected to be a tough battle to extend the program in its current form.

The state's regulator is pressuring QBE to reduce rates by 35 percent and announced that Great American Assurance Company has reduced premiums by 28 percent in its forced-place program.

A report by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program sharply criticized the Treasury Department for failing to rein excessive pay for top executives of companies that received government bailouts through the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

A new study by the Consumer Federation of America lauds State Farm as a company that is successful in the highly competitive personal-auto market without the need to use highly discriminatory factors in setting rates.