The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has released its third annual ranking of top 20 “Most Secure U.S. Places to Live.” Based on factors such as crime statistics, unemployment rates, risk of environmental hazarads, terrorism threats, natural disasters and extreme weather conditions, the rankings put St. George, Utah as number one among the top 20 safest communities [...]
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Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough has joined forces with Faegre & Benson, a Minneapolis-based firm that has a practice in Shanghai, to provide legal services for a variety of industries doing business in or with China. Early next year, we plan to offer educational programs to help Utah’s business community navigate China matters. We also are developing a program [...]
On October 30, 2009, Judge Robert Faust reviewed the First Trustee’s Report of Timothy B. Anderson, the court-appointed Trustee for the former clients of Matthew T. Graff & Associates and entered an order providing as follows:
The Trustee is authorized to destroy those client files for which two notification letters have been sent with no response [...]
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We have been contacted by additional law firms indicating their willingness to follow the terms outlined in the previous post for attorneys who wish to assist former clients of Matthew T. Graff & Associates. Here is contact information for those firms:
DIXON TRUMAN & FISHER, PC
Ronald W. Truman
20 North Main Street, Suite 205
St George, UT 84770
Phone: [...]
We would like to provide an update of the progress of the court-appointed trustee for the former clients of Matthew T. Graff & Associates. Our focus has been on identifying client files and making them available for pick-up by their owners, at both our office in St. George and at the former office of the Graff firm [...]
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When a BMW automobile arrives at a U.S. port from Germany (as I understand it, BMWs are still manufactured in Germany and not China), among other things a charge, known as a “duty,” is made by the Customs Department of the Federal Government. The duty is 5.0% of the value of the product, which can be [...]
Utah’s merchandise exports in 2007 were $7.8 billion. By the end of the 2008-2009 fiscal year that ends June 30, the number may exceed $14.0 billion. Key exports include electronics, computers, aircraft components and other commodities such as custom food items and heritage craft products. There are over 2500 companies involved in exporting, 85% of [...]
Update on Graff Trusteeship
We continue to inventory, process and distribute files to their owners. Many of the letters we are sending out are coming back undeliverable, however, and this is causing a slowdown in getting through all of the files. If you are expecting to hear from us but have not received a letter, please email Sheila Berger [...]
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