NYC sues Countrywide officers, underwriters
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New York City Comptroller William  Thompson on Friday expanded a class-action law suit filed  against Countrywide Financial Corp , naming additional  company officers and directors, 26 underwriters and two  accounting firms.
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NEW YORK, July 17 -- Ailing rescue workers from the World Trade Center site filed a lawsuit Tuesday  charging that a $1 billion insurance fund set up after Sept. 11, 2001, violated a congressional mandate to pay their injury claims and instead spent millions of dollars fighting those claims.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Friday widened his investigation of the insurance business, this time suing a broker that allegedly took kickbacks from big life insurers.
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New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer on Thursday sued several prominent participants in the  insurance industry, including AIG and broker Marsh & McLennan  Cos. MMC.N, charging they engaged in market manipulation.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the brokerage firm JB Oxford Holdings and its National Clearing Corporation unit, accusing them of improper mutual fund trading.
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NEW YORK -- UBS AG was sued by New York State over allegations that Europe's largest bank defrauded thousands of brokerage clients out of tens of millions of dollars by steering them into costly accounts they didn't need.
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The Illinois attorney general has subpoenaed documents from Countrywide Financial, broadening an investigation into lending practices that has already led to a lawsuit against one mortgage broker.
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Three African-American mortgage borrowers from Boston accused Countrywide Home Loans Inc. of racial discrimination in a federal lawsuit yesterday, saying the nation's largest home lender charged them more for subprime mortgages than it charged white borrowers in similar financial situations.
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LOS ANGELES - A former executive at mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. was charged yesterday with insider trading after he sold stock before the company disclosed negative earning results three years ago, regulators said.
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On the day before the third  anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States,  insurers for some World Trade Center buildings sued American  Airlines, United Airlines and others, alleging their negligence  allowed the deadly hijackings.
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An insurance company has sued Lenny Kravitz, saying it had to pay for more than &#36;300,000 worth of water damage in a neighbor's apartment after one of Kravitz's toilets overflowed two months ago.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30  â The chief executive of Countrywide Financial, Angelo R. Mozilo, has been sued by a pension fund that accused the company of helping executives pocket improper gains by artificially inflating its stock price through share buybacks.
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JB Oxford Holdings Inc., a Beverly Hills-based discount brokerage firm, was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly allowing thousands of improper trades in more than 600 mutual funds.
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The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, said yesterday that the Countrywide Financial Corporation, a large mortgage lender, would adopt measures to prevent discriminatory pricing for minority borrowers.
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NEW YORK - An insurance company has sued Lenny Kravitz, saying it had to pay for more than $300,000 worth of water damage in a neighbor's apartment after one of Kravitz's toilets overflowed two months ago. Amica Mutual Insurance Co.
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The Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund filed for bankruptcy protection today in New York amid mounting losses from subprime mortgage assets, court papers show.
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New York&#39;s attorney general sued the nation&#39;s leading insurance brokerage yesterday, accusing brokers of taking payoffs to steer clients to insurance companies that were not necessarily offering the lowest prices for their policies.