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Researchers Question Privacy of Usage-Based Auto Insurance
A study by a handful of university professors in Colorado claims user-based insurance tracking programs installed in millions of vehicles can collect data that shows where drivers are going, ...
U.S. Regulator Names Firm That Could Replace Fannie, Freddie
The regulator overseeing major mortgage finance sources Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Monday said it filed legal paperwork to create a common platform for the two firms to issue mortgage-backed ...
U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers Open Despite Shutdown
Despite the federal government's partial government shutdown, Americans have a full team of scientists tracking every possibility for an earthquake-triggered tsunami. The nation's two tsunami warning ...
AIG’s Mortgage Insurer Woos Business Amid FHA Shutdown
American International Group Inc.'s mortgage insurer, whose biggest rival is a U.S. agency, is wooing borrowers with the prospect that they'll avoid delays tied to the partial government shutdown. ...
Stanford Case Triggers Supreme Court Clash Over Securities Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court debated the reach of the federal securities laws, questioning whether investors can sue law firms and outside companies for their alleged roles in R. Allen Stanford's $7 ...
Experts See U.S. Default As Financial Apocalypse
Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is. A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress ...Gulf Workers Return to Offshore Platforms as Karen Weakens
BP Plc, Enbridge Inc. and other companies returned workers to production platforms Sunday after Tropical Storm Karen was downgraded to a depression and passed by offshore assets on its way toward the ...
New York Ranks No. 2 Behind Calif. for Questionable Workers Comp Claims
New York is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers compensation insurance claims. New York jumped to second in 2012 from fifth in 2011, the New York Insurance ...