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The difference between the amount of a settlement or judgement and public agency liability coverage most often

This session will explain how public agencies have insured against their liability claims through risk-pools - pooling funds and sharing risk across many agencies.

This session will discuss the magnitude of claims, those agencies directly impacted,

The cost of victim compensation for past crimes against children resulting from AB 218 is sobering.

Pennsylvania's budget impasse has surpassed four months. Local governments and schools that rely on state funds are getting frustrated.

Next week's issuance is slated to be "substantial" — an estimated $13.1 billion — although that is expected to be met with "solid" November reinvestment capital, J.P. Morgan strategists said.

States have spent weeks preparing for how they would cover the $8 billion shortfall in food stamps for the month of November.

The rating agency expects the school to post an operating deficit this year.

City Manager Oliver Chi unveiled a plan to invest $60 million to change the city's current trajectory.

"Illinois is just pure mismanagement," Ryan Frost, managing director of the Reason Foundation's Pension Integrity Project, said.

Issuance year-to-date is $493.063 billion, up 9.3% from $451.079 billion over the same period. With issuance estimated at $13.118 billion in the first week of November, 2024's $500-plus billion record should fall within the next week or two.

The school system, which has an AA underlying bond rating from S&P, was targeted by the Texas Education Agency for a takeover based on academic performance.

As more states move towards resetting their Congressional districts questions arise over how redistricting will affect the balance of power and eventually tax policy.

Municipal Capital Markets Group and CSG Advisors were new entrants to the top 10, kicking Caine Mitter and Estrada Hinojosa into the top 15.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will sell $977.6 million of water revenue bonds as it grapples with the impacts of January's devastating wildfire.

Technicals are supposed to become slightly more favorable into year-end, said Jeremy Holtz, a portfolio manager at Income Research + Management.

The city said it will take a wide range of measures to try to get through November and December without running out of money.

The one-notch upgrade to AA-minus for Oklahoma's flagship university was assigned to an upcoming approximately $160.7 million bond refunding.

Chicago Public Schools went to market this week with nearly $1.1 billion of refunding bonds in the largest municipal transaction the district ever completed.