In the beginning of 2020, New Jersey’s Ocean Casino Resort had $50 million in business interruption insurance. The Atlantic City casino, which sought insurance payouts for COVID-related business losses, was denied coverage. New Jersey’s Supreme Court will rule whether pandemic-related payouts are excluded from the casino’s insurance coverage, in a move that may provide guidance for many policyholders across the country. New Jersey's Supreme Court is expected to consider whether an Atlantic...

U.S. Rep. George Santos on Wednesday missed another deadline to submit a key financial disclosure report, a months-long delay that the embattled New York Republican blamed on his federal taxes and the desire to avoid a "rushed job." The disclosures, which are filed with the House Committee on Ethics, provide a public snapshot of a representative's personal finances. They are meant to serve as a bulwark against potential conflicts of interest. In an emailed statement to The Associated Press,...

A theft ring stole nearly $2 million from bank customers in central Pennsylvania in an elaborate scheme in which the scammers, posing as bank employees, tricked people into giving up their account information, the attorney general's office said Friday. The suspects disguised their phone numbers to make it seem as if the calls were coming from the banks’ phone numbers, and asked victims to provide their online banking login, debit card number and other information. Victims then got locked out...

A suspected Palestinian assailant carried out a deadly attack in the southern part of the occupied West Bank on Monday, leaving an Israeli woman dead and a man severely injured. This recent flare-up of violence reflects the heightened tensions involving Palestinian militants, Israeli security forces, and radical Jewish settlers. This growing instability has resulted in one of the most intense periods of conflict in the West Bank in nearly twenty years. A suspected Palestinian attacker killed...

North Carolina’s automobile insurance rates will grow on average by 4.5% annually both later this year and next as part of a settlement reached between insurance companies and state regulators. Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced on Tuesday the agreement, which alleviates the need for a rate hearing later this year before Causey and potentially an extended legal fight. The North Carolina Rate Bureau, which represents insurance companies, had requested an overall statewide increase of...