31.   Insurance department officials and aides to Pataki scoffed at the idea that campaign contributions had influenced them.

32.   It took awhile, but eventually all three, the Administration, Transportation and Insurance departments, complied.

33.   Meanwhile she lodged a complaint with the state insurance department.

34.   New York, whose insurance department has long set standards used by other states, is a casualty of this standoff between commissioners and legislators.

35.   On Thursday, a dozen consumer groups, churches and unions called on the state insurance department to reject the agreement.

36.   Oxford, which said Monday night that it had cooperated fully with the insurance department, is expected to release its quarterly financial results Tuesday.

37.   Oxford was also seeking a new chief financial officer to replace Andrew B. Cassidy, who resigned Wednesday, in line with another insurance department recommendation.

38.   Quackenbush said the insurance department this year approved three requests for auto insurance decreases from companies mentioned in the Consumers Union study.

39.   Proposals in the legislature to give the insurance department authority over the pay packages of health care executives were not passed, he noted.

40.   Previously, Pataki had named Levin to the top jobs in the state banking and insurance departments.