The Massachusetts attorney general who sued five major banks over allegedly deceptive foreclosure practices says it’s likely some states will settle with the banks. Martha Coakley told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Wednesday she’ll keep an open mind as …
A central Pennsylvania school district has paid more than a half-million dollars to settle a student’s lawsuit involving a teacher acquitted of sexually assaulting her in 2006. Susquehanna Township School District’s insurance will cover the $600,000 payment for the student’s …
Ventura Partners BHR, LP which has acquired the assets from Barlocker Insurance Services of Ventura, Calif. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Barlocker Insurance Services was formally affiliated with the Leavitt Group. The new insurance brokerage is named Coastal …
Aides to Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin have unveiled the next steps in his plan to move Vermont toward a single-payer health care system, and some business groups aren’t happy about it. Administration officials on Tuesday got two key legislative allies …
A freight train with its whistle blowing derailed Tuesday in northeastern Montana after colliding with a semitrailer that had pulled across tracks at a private crossing between Bainville and Culbertson, a BNSF Railway spokesman said. The train traveling from Chicago …
A woman who killed four people in a drunken crash near a San Diego County casino has pleaded guilty and agreed to spend 18 years in prison. Twenty-seven-year-old Deanna Fridley entered pleas Tuesday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and …
San Diego, Calif.-based Western Insurance Holdings Inc., a property/casualty holding company, has formed On Point Risk Solutions. On Point Risk Solutions, also in San Diego, provides an array of property/casualty services to commercial property and liability insurance carriers, managing general …
A San Diego, Calif. elementary school reopened Wednesday, two days after an arson fire that caused $600,000 in damage. The blaze shortly before midnight Monday at Alice Birney school in University Heights damaged the cafeteria, kitchen and auditorium. Nobody was …
A tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students on Jan. 17, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people — 29 of them children — to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9-year-old boy was ejected …
State agriculture officials say a destructive citrus plant disease that has wiped out crops in Florida has been confirmed in Texas. The Texas Department of Agriculture on Jan. 18 announced that a section of Hidalgo County has been placed under …
