Auto insurance agent Andrea Washington was sentenced to two years in prison last week for pocketing a year's worth of insurance premiums paid by clients who were left uninsured. The sentence was six ...

Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the fire-insurance business is subject to federal regulation, the industry has been under sentence—of what, it was not exactly sure. Last week, the Senate ...

I spent about three-quarters of a decade at the beginning of my career covering police and courts. That meant I was in a lot of courtrooms and heard a lot about crimes from misdemeanor vandalism to ...