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The Senate legislation is different from the companion House bill because it will require more policyholders to pay fair-market rates and more homeowners to participate in the program than called for

Two title insurance companies have agreed to pay $4 million in penalties and reduce rates they charge customers to end a New York probe of their alleged illicit business practices, officials said toda

A plea deal by a Los Angeles attorney has added another item to prosecutors' list of alleged activity by the New York-based Milberg Weiss Bershad Haynes & Lerach LLP law firm: to pay off persons to se

Among the factors that have contributed are the restructuring of the private sector, the turnaround in the banking sector through the resolution of bad loan problems, and elimination of deflationary p

"The ability to stabilize the state's insurance marketplace following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is being threatened by legislation that would saddle insurers with excessive regulation, increase liti

David Small, an analyst at Bear Stearns in New York, said that scientists have been discussing storm frequency and severity increases for quite some time now, while modelers have produced scenarios gi