Insurance

Consumer groups are pushing for rate cuts up to 50 percent for the biggest "force-placed" insurer in Florida, arguing rates scrutinized at a Monday hearing punish struggling homeowners and are inflated by massive kickbacks to mortgage servicers....

One in 110 children is now diagnosed as having an autism spectrum disorder. The numbers have grown to the point where "everyone knows someone affected" by the neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by communication problems and repetitive behaviors,...

By Jennifer Ablan, Ben Berkowitz and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc had its credit rating cut one notch by Standard & Poor's, which cited a new methodology for evaluating insurers and Berkshire's dependence on its...

TALLAHASSEE — Insurance carriers, sugar growers pushing to lessen their pollution costs, telecommunications giant AT&T and an Internet-cafe software company dominated spending on lobbyists to influence the Florida Legislature during the first...

The men and women of tribes unrecognized by the federal government have always been welcomed at the American Indian Healing Center in Whittier. It is one of two state licensed health facilities in Los Angeles County dedicated to serving urban-based...

TALLAHASSEE -- Insurance carriers, sugar growers pushing to lessen their pollution costs, telecommunications giant AT&T, and an Internet cafe software company dominated spending on lobbyists to influence the Florida Legislature over the first three months...

DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Jurors in the trial of a Hartsville woman charged with faking an assault and robbery and then setting fire to her children's boutique watched a video of her interrogation by then-SLED agent Valerie Williams. Claudette Hulsey is on...

Predatory businesses were the topic of a discussion between N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper and a group of Marines from Camp Lejeune on Wednesday morning. "We're here today to help individual service members and their families avoid scams, bad loans...

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN) -- South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy will raise up to 1 trillion won (US$898 million) to support the overseas expansion of energy-related public firms and their subcontractors, officials said Wednesday....

Rep. Ron Kind introduced legislation Wednesday aiming to reign in crop insurance programs and potentially save taxpayers billions of dollars. But his plan clashes with conventional thinking in Washington. The La Crosse Democrat was joined by...

In his first annual meeting as the CEO at Genworth Financial Inc., Thomas J. McInerney told shareholders the company has made progress in its turnaround efforts but still faces challenges. "My primary goal is to assure that we are focused on...

Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc., one of the nation's oldest and largest private investment banking and brokerage firms in the country, has plucked a retired chief executive from Richmond to head up the firm. Walter S. Robertson III, former president and CEO...