business insurance

Businesses wanting to make pollution insurance claims based on BP's oil spill may have to file by July 8. Most policies have a fixed deadline for filing -- typically 80 days from the incident that led to the damage. That would be July 8, counting from when the Deepwater Horizon blew up.

Community colleges may hold the promise for a brighter future, according to President Obama, but officials in St. Louis, Mo., likely wish the dimwit who left a coffeemaker running overnight causing $200,000 in damage at a campus there would have thought twice before calling it an...

One of Cape Cod's best known diners, the old Tinman -- a 1941 Sterling Steamliner -- was burnt down by a waitress's estranged husband in November, 2000. The diner's owner, Barbara Lind, had no insurance.The Tinman had been a landmark of sorts, set back from Rte 28, one of the two highways that...