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.

Seven Republican congress members introduced a bill (H.R. 3127) that would prohibit the payment of death gratuities to the surviving heirs of deceased members of Congress.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) granted a second round of awards totaling $109 million to 28 states and Washington, D.C., to further implement federal health reform.

A construction defects lawyer faces felony charges, including insurance fraud, for allegedly setting her house in Las Vegas on fire in October 2010 during a failed suicide attempt.

The U.S. District Court in Nevada has ruled in favor of a risk-retention group in its fight against that state’s attempt to bar its operations despite federal preemption under the Liability Risk Retention Act (LRRA).

Wellpoint, an Indianapolis, Ind.-based national health benefits provider, acquired a senior-focused health care delivery program as it seeks new opportunities in response to the effects of federal health reform.

A federal appeals court in Atlanta, where 26 states will argue against the U.S. Government, is the next stop in the ongoing legal battle over federal health reform.

A national property-casualty insurer has acquired a Pennsylvania-based insurance intermediary providing services to self-insured workers’ compensation programs.

A California wholesale bagel shop’s chief executive, her husband and the business’ account manager were sentenced in Santa Clara County Superior Court for their roles in a workers’ compensation scheme that bilked two private insurance companies of $358,000.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined an opportunity to resolve a vexing issue involving workers’ compensation payments to illegal workers, where judges in eight states, including Pennsylvania and Virginia, have disagreed.