State Farm and Quick Loans have announced a deal that will see the biggest home insurance provider’s agents using the biggest retail mortgage originator’s online mortgage service, Rocket Mortgage. So reports Crain’s Detroit Business.

A federal judge has given the go-ahead to a lawsuit against Bank of America and Safeguard Properties alleging that the companies neglected bank-owned properties in African-American and Latino neighborhoods but not in white ones. So reports the Baltimore Sun.

Kirk A. Stephens is the Chief Compliance Officer at Breckenridge Insurance Group.