A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday will consider an insurance firm’s bid to reverse a lower court ruling that said it misclassified sales agents as independent contractors, and which trade groups claim has caused uncertainty in the insurance industry and beyond. American Family Insurance Co’s lawyers at Squire Patton Boggs will tell the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that more than 7,200 current and former agents who operate their own offices had enough freedom to be considered...

A federal jury in Long Island, New York, has ordered a health insurance company to pay $5.1 million to 10 employees who said they were forced to follow the practices of an obscure religious belief system called “Onionhead,” the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said. The EEOC on Thursday said the jury in Central Islip, New York handed down the verdict against United Health Programs of America Inc a day earlier. Two years ago, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto rejected claims by United...