NY expands Countrywide suit with more defendants
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NEW YORK  -New York City and state on Friday expanded a shareholder class-action law suit filed against top U.S. mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp , naming additional company officers and directors, 26 underwriters and two accounting firms as defendants.
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Countrywide Financial Corp.'s   debt protection costs jumped on Tuesday amid rumors about more  financial problems at the largest U.S. mortgage lender.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Tuesday said it made 15 percent more home loans in May as the pace of refinancings increased, though the foreclosure rate doubled.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , whose shares have tumbled amid worries about the largest U.S. mortgage lender's survival prospects, on Wednesday said it made more loans than it expected in the fourth quarter, though homeowner foreclosures and delinquencies rose.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. said Friday home loan delinquencies and foreclosures rose in January as more borrowers struggled to make their mortgage payments.
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Countrywide Financial Corp ,  the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Tuesday offered to  refinance or restructure up to $16 billion of adjustable-rate  mortgages through the end of 2008.
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At least two more states are  investigating charges of bid-rigging in the U.S. insurance  industry brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer  last week.
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Top U.S. life insurer MetLife Inc.  MET.N said on Friday it had received several subpoenas from  New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, in a sign that a probe  into alleged rigging of bids in exchange for fat fees in the  insurance industry is widening.
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The probe into insurance bid-rigging  by New York's attorney general widened to health insurers on  Tuesday, unnerving investors worried that more revelations of  wrongdoing and lower profits lie ahead.
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The New York attorney general&#39;s investigation into abuses in the insurance industry escalated yesterday with a lawsuit accusing a California broker of fraudulent practices that led to higher
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The D.C. attorney general filed a lawsuit yesterday against Metropolitan Money Store Corp., hoping to recover lost home equity and prevent foreclosure for city residents who dealt with the Prince George's County-based mortgage company.
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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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Countrywide Financial Corp   said on Wednesday it helped more than 81,000 borrowers stay in  their residences and avert possible foreclosures in 2007, by  either modifying or otherwise restructuring their home loans.
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Countrywide Financial Corp  is  working to structure another strategic investment similar to  the deal Bank of America Corp  struck last month, the  New York Post reported in its online edition on Tuesday.
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State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told a subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday that he expects more criminal pleas in connection with his investigation into price collusion and conflicts of interest in the insurance
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Countrywide Financial Corp , whose shares have tumbled on concern it might not survive the nation's housing crisis, said on Wednesday it made more loans than expected in the fourth quarter, though foreclosures among loans it services increased.
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Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, will compensate as many as 4,500 black and Hispanic borrowers under an agreement announced yesterday with New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer.