The owners of a Homestead, Fla. nursery have sown the seeds of lengthy prison sentences after executing a con that siphoned a cool million from a federal disaster fund.
This Fla. couple defrauded a federal fund established for hurricane victims out of more than $1M. They now await sentencing after entering a guilty plea.
Two prognosticators of the 2012 Atlantic-hurricane season are standing pat on their previously-released outlooks but the U.S. is overdue for a landfall.
In the wake of tragedies such as Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, Wilma and Irene, as well as the devastation wrought by the Japanese earthquake and unprecedented levels of wind events across the United States, experts have begun to consider the issues of urban resiliencyspecifically concentrating on unique characteristics that either reduce...
The property and casualty insurance industry got hit hard with losses in 2011, but the prospect of a return to underwriting discipline and improved earnings in 2012 leads Fitch Rating Service to give the industry a stable outlook.