The New York State Insurance Department is requiring all life insurance companies operating in the state to report any death benefits that have gone unpaid because the insurers did not use the official government death list.

An insurance claims representative for Nationwide Insurance was charged with stealing $44,900 that should have been paid as part of an insurance settlement to a St. Lawrence County, N.Y., man whose home was destroyed in a fire two years ago.

New York’s banking and insurance departments will be merged, putting into effect a proposal Gov. Andrew Cuomo made before taking office in January.

A New York accountant was arrested for allegedly falsifying payroll records of a Syracuse cab driver killed in a robbery by listing him as an employee for a cab company with workers’ compensation insurance.

If New York Gov. Andrew Coumo has his way, the state’s banking and insurance regulators will be combined and have slightly more money to work collectively than they have separately.

New York’s new governor wants to merge the state’s banking and insurance departments, arguing that the streamlining would save money and prevent activity from “falling between the cracks of our regulatory agencies.”

Two insurance trade groups in New York have filed notice indicating they will appeal the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division’s decision upholding the state insurance department’s broker disclosure rule.

The New York insurance superintendent was elected to the executive committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the group of state insurance regulators.

Watertown, N.Y., police arrested a corrections officer in the town after state officials say he allegedly collected $6,200 in workers’ compensation payments fraudulently, the New York State Insurance Department said.

The New York State Insurance Department has licensed its first two life settlement providers under a new state law.