A San Diego superior court judge upheld the California Insurance Commissioner’s order to State Farm to reduce rates for homeowners and renters insurance.

The latest Insurance Regulation Report Card showed that Vermont has the best regulatory system for insurance, while North Carolina has the worst.

Uber is bringing a small number of self-driving cars to its ride-hailing service in San Francisco - a move likely to excite the city’s tech-savvy population and certain to antagonize California regulators.

For the third time in eight years, water gushed into Virginia Hammond’s northwest Houston home. It was 2 a.m. on April 18. Over the next several hours, her two granddaughters — ages 12 and 15 — perched on tables, scared to put their feet in the dark gray floodwater rising below them.

They are not just two of the biggest names in insurance, but they are two of the biggest names in the financial world - so much so that American International Group (AIG) and Prudential Financial are, apparently, "too big to fail".

The Texas House Insurance Committee recently met to hear testimony on the impact of mass hail litigation - a surge driven by trial lawyers out for profit, a tort reform advocate argued during the assembly.

The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has dropped dramatically since late May, when the state limited wastewater injections into energy wells, an Associated Press statistical analysis shows. And a new scientific study says the state is on its way back to calmer times that prevailed before a huge jump in man-made quakes.

Sen. Jeff Brandes will once again file legislation to repeal the state’s no-fault auto insurance requirement, saying it’s time for Florida to move away from the troubled system.

Federal and state regulators in Alaska say they’re working to stem what has been a growing number of tanker-truck accidents in recent years -- including three big rollovers since September that dumped thousands of gallons of diesel fuel into woods and wetlands.

A Redlands woman was convicted in federal court Tuesday of bilking $4 million from her employer, AFLAC. Following a two-week trial, Patricia Diane Smith Sledge, 60, was found guilty on six counts of mail fraud. She sold disability insurance policies to sham companies and people who supposedly worked for those companies, according to a U.S. Attorney’s office statement.

What personal data should insurers be allowed to use to price premiums? This question has been raised in New York, as a regulator is said to be considering prohibiting auto-insurers from using consumers’ occupations to price their policies.

In comments to that rule OSHA previously stated that the Electronic Recordkeeping Rule "does prohibit employers from using drug testing (or the threat of drug testing) as a form of adverse action against employees who report injuries or illnesses." Those comments ignited a firestorm.

A group of lawmakers tasked with crafting a bill to criminalize edible forms of marijuana declined to pursue legislation after the owner of a chemistry lab described the difficulties of testing the active ingredient of cannabis in food.

One local Texas state senator wants to put an end to the wide-range of rules in Texas for ridesharing. Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown) filed a bill Monday -- the first day of filing for the 84th Legislative Session -- to create a consistent regulation of services like Uber and Lyft across the state.

Anthony Silveira has admitted to telling three of his four adopted children to act like they were injured, in order for them to get prescription medication from a doctor.