Executive-liability insurance is often the first line of financial defense for executives and directors caught up in litigation such as investor lawsuits. For others without such coverage, asset-protection trusts are the way many insulate their wealth from claims.

Gov. Rick Scott is making a special stop in the Bay area today to re-emphasize his vow to crack down on accident fraud. Scott will be participating in a round table discussion in Tampa on personal-injury-protection insurance.

Health-insurance companies must tell customers who get a premium rebate this summer that the check is the result of the Obama administration’s health-care law, according to federal guidelines released Friday.

By some accounts, false claims, faulty scoring and favoritism led the state to erroneously award billions in state Medicaid contracts.

A new law that allows Georgians to buy health insurance plans approved by other states was envisioned as free-market solution that would lower prices and increase choices.

Illinois’ Workers’ Compensation Program has “numerous shortcomings” and is “ill designed to protect the state’s best interests,” according to a state audit released Wednesday.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association could be raising premium rates soon — and for the time first, adjusting policyholder premiums depending on the likelihood of severe storms or hurricane damage in specific areas.

A fraudulent insurance acts charge against disbarred lawyer Melbourne Mills Jr., who represented clients in a multimillion-dollar fen-phen diet drug settlement, was dismissed this month in Fayette Circuit Court.

Lee Wyckoff, an insurance executive hired last year to root out fraud, waste and abuse in Utah’s Medicaid program, was arrested in South Carolina two weeks ago for public intoxication.

Three members of the board of directors of United Insurance Holdings Corp. and the company’s interim chief financial officer resigned following a ruling by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.