Ocwen to provide $11M in relief

Mortgage servicer to settle misconduct claims

Ocwen Financial Corp., based in West Palm Beach, has agreed to provide more than $11 million incas hand services to settle a lawsuit by Florida’ s attorney generalmisconduct by its mortgage servicing business.

The settlement was announced in separate statements by the Attorney General’s Office and Ocwen.

It follows years of accusations from across the United States that Ocwen routinely abused its mortgage customers with, according to the attorney general’s 2017 civil complaint, illegal foreclosures, misapplied mortgage payments, failure to make insurance payments from borrowers’ escrow accounts and overcharges to borrowers’ accounts for default fees.

POMPANO BEACH — Two people are dead and now am an has been arrested after police say he struck a Honda scooter with his car, killing the driver and the scooter’s passenger in Pompano Beach.

The first 911 call came in around 6:40 a.m. Sunday morning after the driver of the car hit a scooter at the 1200 block of South Dixie Highway.

Two men were laying in the road when Broward Sheriff’s deputies arrived.

The men, who police did not identify, were pronounced dead by paramedics at6:50 a.m.

The driver of a silver Toyota Camry-rear-ended-the scooter in the northbound lane of South Dixie Highway and then fled north toward Atlantic Blvd., according to a preliminary report from the Bro ward Sheriff’ s Office.

Around 10:30 a.m ., to a tip about the possible location of the Toyota Camry.

They found the car that they determined was involved in the crash and arrested a man in connection with the crash, but did not identify him Sunday afternoon.

The crash is still under investigation, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.