Updated: A report today by a trade association on troubled mortgages during the first quarter of 2008 says the number of delinquencies, new foreclosures and the inventory of homes in…
The top bond ratings firms are close to an agreement with the New York attorney general that would change the way they collect fees to grade securitized subprime mortgages and…
Updated: It isn’t just struggling blue-collar workers who are battling in court with mortgage lenders in the ongoing real estate meltdown. Ed McMahon, famous among late-night television fans as Johnny…
In addition to commonplace concerns like weeds, weevils and adverse weather conditions, urban gardeners in far-flung locations including Miami, Southern California, London and Berlin face a significant additional challenge. At…
Authorities say more than 400 struggling California homeowners, many of them Spanish-speaking, were tricked into paying up to $10,000 for worthless “land grants” and other bogus measures claimed to provide…
There’s no shortage of work for FBI agents, as the agency has revved up its investigations of alleged corporate, mortgage and securities wrongdoing in recent years.
A costumed dancing dumpling who attracted attention to a Clearwater, Fla., restaurant by waving a saute pan at passing motorists has reportedly disappeared from the premises after the eatery’s owner…
A Denver lawyer has found an innovative way to keep busy during his “retirement” and, when his project is complete, vacation in a lovely Paris apartment with his wife at…
It may soon be harder to find experts to testify as witnesses in civil litigation if a trend toward allowing their own clients to sue them for negligence continues.
Plaintiffs’ counsel had hoped for $50 million or so. But a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury effectively awarded less than $5 million to 58,000 Broward County homeowners who had sought additional…
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