The proposed regulations governing essential benefits that must be included in health care plans sold through exchanges provides states and insurers a high level of flexibility, according to an analysis.

Trade groups say they support the idea of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the agency has no real jurisdiction over insurers or agents.

It is believed that AIG will come under Federal oversight as a systemically significant financial company under a provision of the Dodd-Frank reform law.

The Hartford suffered a second-quarter net loss of $101 million to extinguish high-cost debt it took on during the 2008 financial crisis.

Senate Democrats pushed through Wednesday legislation that would phase out the so-called Bush-era tax cuts except for families earning $250,000 or less at the end of this year.

AIG's SunAmerica is seen within the securities distribution industry as the strongest among four suitors for Hartford's broker-dealer arm, Woodbury Financial.

The disparate retirement treatment given to GM and Delphi workers was alternatively lauded and disparaged during a politically-charged hearing before the House Tuesday.

A federal court has cleared the way for the former head of AIG to pursue his claim that the U.S. government illegally took control of AIG in 2008.