Paterson expects New York will receive nearly $300 million of the $5 billion available in the federal health-care reform legislation over the next three years.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced today he has hired a law firm to represent the New York State Common Retirement Fund in a class-action lawsuit against London-based BP, p.l.c. (NYSE: BP).

The state-pension fund will seek lead-plaintiff status in the action that stems from BP's explosion and spill at its Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

The survey was conducted in May at America's Small Business Summit 2010 in Washington, D.C. Travelers, an insurer, was a sponsor of the event, which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted.

Since 2000, New York had regulated health-insurance premiums under a "file and use" law that "significantly" limited the state's ability to disapprove premium increases and allowed the insurance industry to regulate itself, the governor's office said in a news release.

CAMILLUS — Mang Insurance Agency prevents unruly and inebriated wedding guests, whose overzealous Macarena performance causes them to trip over speaker wires, from cashing in on their idiocy.

According to a Dalbar Financial Services study that tracks investor returns, from 1989 to 2008 the S&P 500 yielded an 8.35-percent return annually. But the average investor only earned 1.87 percent over the same period. This fact deserves restatement