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AIG will resume using its brand name in public in a move to recognize the company's turnaround. The Chartis property and casualty business will be known simply as AIG starting this fall, while the SunAmerica life businesses will be known as AIG Life and Retirement.

Congress approved a 5-year extension to the National Flood Insurance Program, which covers 5.6 million people. Failure to renew the program would have been a blow to the fragile housing market because potential homeowners in flood-susceptible areas would be unable to close on mortgages or refinance loans.

Regulators have stepped up scrutiny of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s internal controls by asking the bank to demonstrate that its risk models are designed and working properly, according to people close to the situation.

Tens of thousands of people fled the neighborhoods north and west of Colorado Springs after the Waldo Canyon fire unleashed waves of flames yet again. Showers of ash fell as traffic gridlocked on Interstate 25 and all major eastbound roadways, clogged full of evacuees and fire equipment.

Insured losses from the massive hailstorm that struck the Dallas area on Wednesday could reach as much as $2 billion, making it one of the most costly storms of its type in U.S. history, an insurance organization said on Friday.

The Insurance Information Institute said its member insurance companies in Florida reported "relatively light" claims volume as of Monday afternoon. The biggest homeowners' insurer in Florida, state-run Citizens Property Insurance, and the biggest private insurer, State Farm, gave similar assessments.

A federal appeals court upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that greenhouse gases contribute to global warming and are a threat to public health.

Vacation homes and commercial properties in flood-prone areas could see their flood-insurance premiums more than double over a four-year period under a bill poised to clear the Senate this week. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would save $4.7 billion by 2021.

Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, say they have arrested a key figure allegedly involved in the planning of the deadly Mumbai attacks of 2008

Investors in four funds that lost more than $1.2 billion in Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme will receive $405 million in payouts over the next three years, New York's attorney general said.

Because of injury risk, some say that football could evolve from lucrative American colossus to a niche sport beloved for its brutality.

Tropical Storm Debby spun drenching rains Monday over northern Florida as it hung nearly stationary over the Gulf of Mexico, making its biggest threat flooding rather than winds.

The sea level on a stretch of the U.S. Atlantic coast that features the cities of New York, Norfolk and Boston is rising up to four times faster than the global average, increasing flood risk.

Containment has reached 45 percent, and a fire line has been built around an area of the fire that jumped north of the canyon and burned 200 acres a few miles from Glacier View Meadows. But the fire's growth potential remains "extreme."

A former Goldman Sachs director accused of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager has been convicted of conspiracy and three counts of securities fraud.