The U.S. Supreme Court refused to address a petition by an auto insurance company over a West Virginia ruling preventing it from retaining private medical records used against it in a civil suit.

The New York Court of Appeals ruled against insurers in six separate cases Nov. 15 by upholding a law requiring private insurers to deposit payments for some workers’ compensation benefits into state trust funds.

The Maine Supreme Court has upheld a state insurance department 2009 decision reducing a health insurance rate increase proposed by Anthem.

A New York appeals court ruled 5-2 that a man’s estate is entitled to make insurance claims after he was run down and killed by a homicidal driver.

A Florida appeals court ruled Dec. 29 that public insurance adjusters’ commercial free speech rights are violated if they are prohibited from soliciting people until 48 hours after an event that could lead to an insurance claim.

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.

Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, set to become the U.S. House of Representatives’ majority leader in January, is calling for an immediate U.S. Supreme Court review of the federal health reform law.

A federal appeals court has voided Rule 151A, a regulation that would have treated indexed annuities as securities, placing them under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has ruled that an insurance company’s reduction of an agent’s commission to 0% equals a termination.