Mercury Insurance, a multi-line insurance organization operating in 13 states, is offering a new commercial auto insurance product it says uses technology to enable its independent agents to more easily rate, qualify and issue new business.

New insurance requirements for fireworks manufacturers have set off legal sparks in Michigan, as the companies have filed suit against the state.

A total of 19 states and Washington, D.C., reached an agreement with The Prudential Group, one of the largest life insurance companies in the U.S., in a case involving its unclaimed property practices.

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department issued final rules for its medical loss ratio, declining the request of insurance agent trade groups and state insurance regulators to exempt agent and broker compensation.

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the federal health reform law, focusing itself on the individual mandate, with an expected ruling by June 2012.

A Michigan-based firm says it experienced health cost savings after investing in a private exchange and defined-contribution plan designed by three Blue health insurers to simplify insurers’ health benefit offerings.

Insurers must be quick and fair throughout the claims process, communicating more with customers, to improve people’s satisfaction when making an auto insurance claim, a new study says.

A Lansing, Mich.-based insurance company, after first rejecting a claim, agreed to pay a man who was injured in the Joplin tornado while trying to save three men in a group home.

The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big I) recently recognized 18 independent insurance agent associations with Excellence in Insurance Education Awards at its education convocation in Minneapolis, Minn.

A federal judge in Detroit dismissed a suit against the U.S. government, seeking payment for the loss of a $750,000 Ferrari crashed by an FBI agent.