The Cuomo administration in New York is proposing a regulation aimed at ending the current rapid rise in no-fraud-auto-insurance rates by stopping payments where no medical treatment is rendered.

Progressive Corp. has filed separate patent-infringement lawsuits against Hartford Financial Services and State Farm over usage-based-auto insurance.

A U.S. judge refused to block former MF Global Holdings Ltd Chief Executive Jon Corzine and other company officials from tapping as much as $30 million of insurance money to defend lawsuits over the futures brokerage's collapse.

A fugitive on the lam for 29 years was arrested as investigators were questioning his wife for insurance fraud.