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Unclaimed property regimes, sometimes called escheat laws, play an important role in protecting citizens’ assets, ensuring that abandoned or forgotten funds are preserved and, where appropriate, ...

Compliance with state unclaimed property laws is one of the many responsibilities involved when conducting business in the United States. Fifty-five reporting jurisdictions require companies to file ...

A struggling broker-dealer’s efforts to close all of its retail customer accounts by applying theories of abandonment, including mischaracterizing securities as “worthless” and making misstatements ...

Healthcare professionals today face a number of challenges, the least of which may be an unclaimed property audit. However, unclaimed properly should be of significant concern to hospitals and other ...

H.B. 1176, which was recently signed into law by Gov. Josh Shapiro, will make it easier and cheaper for residents to recover ...

TALLAHASSEE — With plaintiffs arguing the system leads to a “taking” of property, a federal appeals court has revived a constitutional challenge to part of a law that directs the state’s handling of ...