Parts of the Massachusetts coastline could face a lengthy recovery process after being pummeled by severe winter storms, the state’s top environmental official said on Feb. 27. Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton was joined by local state …

MetLife’s home lending unit will pay $123.5 million to end an investigation into allegations it gave government-backed mortgages to people who didn’t meet federal requirements. The Justice Department said on Feb. 25 that MetLife knew the business was issuing hundreds …

ACE Group has introduced a new agriculture premises pollution liability coverage that provides limited pollution liability protection in conjunction with ACE’s Agribusiness Commercial general liability policy. The expanded coverage offers commercial companies that process and distribute agricultural products with pollution-liability …

The head of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) flood insurance program acknowledged he has seen evidence of fraudulent engineering reports that may have been used to deny flood claims by Superstorm Sandy victims, according to CBS’s “60 Minutes” program that …

Thirteen Spearfish, S.D., residents have sued the city over years of sewer backups. Plaintiffs say in their lawsuit that they have suffered through a series of sewer backups stretching back to 2008, leading to stinky, flooded basements and lost possessions. …

The battle over Jefferson Parish’s defunct red-light camera program is headed back to district court, after appellate judges reversed decisions throwing out ticketed drivers’ lawsuits against the parish and Redflex Traffic Systems. A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel raised …

A 64-year-old Michigan man has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling fake auto insurance certificates. Hakeem Sanusi of Eastpointe pleaded no contest to six counts of insurance fraud as a habitual offender. He was sentenced on Feb. …

An insurance cooperative created to provide health care in Iowa and Nebraska will be formally liquidated this weekend. Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart said that a Polk County judge has agreed to approve the liquidation plan. CoOportunity is a federally …