Personal Lines

N.Y. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced his Administration has banned a first round of 18 doctors and other health service providers from billing New Yorks no-fault auto insurance system as part of an extensive and ongoing Department of Financial Services investigation.

XL Group, the insurer led by CEO Mike McGavick, hired David Miller as senior vice president and head of claims for international property and casualty coverage.

Reversing a trial courts decision, a California appellate court ruled a motor vehicle exclusion in a homeowners insurance policy barred coverage of claims against the insured homeowner and his wife after he accidentally ran over his granddaughter with his pickup truck.

Louisianas state-run insurer of last resort has settled the remaining claims in a class-action lawsuit against its claims handlings after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

Hundreds of thousands of Texas homeowners may be poised to share a $117.5 million settlement between the state and Farmers Insurance, more than a decade after the company first clashed with regulators in court over its rates.

Insurers will have to pay out up to $1.75 billion in claims after the storm that swept through northern Europe in late October, broker Willis Re estimates.