Federal authorities have issued tough new rules on check-cashing businesses in South Florida as part of the ongoing fight against rampant identity theft and tax fraud. The Treasury Department’s order applies to federal tax refund checks over $1,000 in Miami-Dade …
Gulf Coast officials worry that their communities won’t get their fair share of Alabama’s $2.3 billion portion of the BP oil spill settlement. Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft told Alabama’s Press Register that members of the Gulf Coast Recovery Council …
Regions Insurance, Inc., an affiliate of Regions Bank, has entered into an agreement with the Ronald F. Holehouse Agency to obtain the firm’s personnel and accounts. Financial terms of the agreement are not disclosed. Agency founder Ron Holehouse, along with …
Recent floods caused more than $14 million in damages in a southwest Arkansas county, according to a report by county officials and the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. Around half of the land in Little River County was flooded …
A jury has convicted an Indianapolis man of murder, arson and insurance fraud for his role in a house explosion that devastated a subdivision nearly three years ago, killing a couple living next door. Mark Leonard, 46, showed no emotion …
Trust is hard to come by, and the proof for that cliché is now in the pudding – at least in the world of workers’ compensation. While roughly one-in-10 small business owners say they’re concerned that one of their employees …
A new report shows that implementing strict penalties for violating graduated driver-licensing (GDL) laws — including restrictions on unsupervised night driving — significantly reduced teen driver crashes in Massachusetts. The report, “Teen Crashes Declined After Massachusetts Raised Penalties For Graduated …
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller on July 13 presented certificates to approximately 25 Pennsylvanians who successfully completed a mature driver safety class in Dauphin County. Miller also reminded participants that state law requires a minimum five percent auto insurance discount …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday requested the federal government to issue a major disaster declaration for severe thunderstorms that caused more than $15 million worth of damage and knocked out power to 300,000 people in southern New Jersey …
Spearfish, S.D., residents who sued the city over sewer backups have settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. Members of eight households in a five-block area in late 2013 filed a lawsuit that was scheduled to go …
