Regulation/Legislation

Two L.A. City Council members want their colleagues to back a statewide ballot measure that would help fund local seismic safety efforts.

Federal regulators charge that the deadliest rig explosion in the Gulf since Deepwater Horizon could have been prevented.

A U.S. housing regulator said on Tuesday that it would ban some fees and commissions that borrowers are compelled to pay when their own home insurance coverage lapses.

As the anniversary of Superstorm Sandys Oct. 29, 2012 landfall passes, New Jersey lawmakers are rightly considering whether New Jersey law offers sufficient protection to insurance policyholders subject to undue delay, underpayment or unjustified denial of their insurance claims.

No matter the industry, people seek out Internet reviews of products, restaurants and services. But if those reviews are fake, written by a competitor trying to divert the companys business, legal implications may arise.

Seven Detroit firefighters were seriously injured when an office building engulfed in a gasoline-fueled fire collapsed on them. One was paralyzed and several had crushed bones. The man who set the fire did so for a very simple reason: the insurance money.