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New Force-Placed Insurance Rules Prompt $100 Million Agency Sale

One of the country’s largest overseers of troubled home loans, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., is quietly trying to sell a $100 million insurance agency that doesn’t appear to exist. Harwood Service Co. has no website, no independent offices and only …

Florida Says 36% Cut in Forced Place Insurance Rate Justified

Praetorian Insurance Co. is facing up to a 36 percent rate reduction for Florida homeowners. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty on Friday announced his intent to disapprove a company proposal for a 2.2 percent decrease. McCarty said his Office of …