Nearly three-quarters of Floridians say property insurance is getting more expensive, and more than 60 percent say coverage is harder to get, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

Nearly three-quarters of Floridians say property insurance is getting more expensive, and more than 60 percent say coverage is harder to get, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

State Farm’s claims payments through May eclipsed $2.5 billion as payments to policyholders affected by April’s harsh weather approaches $1 billion.

There are probably no farms in Brooklyn, N.Y., and it is unlikely a Jaguar is being used to haul animal feed.

By more than 150 incidents, California was top among states where cargo thefts occurred in 2010, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state Senate has confirmed Benjamin M. Lawsky as the Empire State’s first superintendent of the Department of Financial Services.

State Farm spokesman John Wiscaver has been with the company for 23 years and calls the damage caused by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., “as bad as I have ever seen.”

American International Group Inc. (AIG) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury made available 300 million shares priced at $29 per share, which raised about $9 billion.