California's insurance commissioner says preliminary estimates of losses from the state's recent siege of wildfires exceed $ 1 billion and that the figure is expected to rise. Commissioner Dave Jones told reporters in Los Angeles Thursday that the estimate comes from the eight largest insurers in the affected areas.
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After deleveraging in the aftermath of the last U.S. recession, Americans have once again taken on record debt loads that risk holding back the world's largest economy. Household debt outstanding – everything from mortgages to credit cards to car loans – reached $ 12.7 trillion in the first quarter, surpassing the previous peak in 2008…
Colorado's largest foreclosure law firm has landed a major victory in its five-year legal battle against state investigators who tried to prove attorney Larry Castle and his law-partner wife, Caren, headed a money-hungry outfit that for years preyed on a foreclosure system gone wild. In a 92-page opinion issued Tuesday, Denver District Judge Morris Hoffman…
January 2, 2017 – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced today the appointments of the Honorable Alan D. Scheinkman as Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department and the Honorable Elizabeth A. Garry as Presiding Justice for the Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department. The Presiding Justice for each New York…
July's year-over-year increase in foreclosure starts for 44% of the nation's metro areas is a result of looser underwriting standards and a sign of future growth in defaults, said Attom Data Solutions. A total of 30,187 properties started the foreclosure process for the first time in July, up 1% from June and up less than…
