Cendant Corporation

Former executives convicted of scheming to manipulate the financial statements of the world's largest insurance company are slamming advisory guidelines that call for life in prison for them. The former General Re Corp. executives, Elizabeth Monrad...

An elaborate scheme to create fictitious victims of class-action lawsuits yielded more than $40 million in bogus claims for six people now facing fraud charges, federal authorities announced Thursday. The six went to great lengths to create bogus...

The collapse of PHH Corp.'s deal to sell itself is a lesson for these credit-crunched times: If you're in the mortgage business, don't count on anyone getting the money to buy you - no matter how decent your prospects look. PHH agreed in March to sell...

Major lodging companies' phone numbers and Web sites are listed below. Several hotel and motel brands may be managed by one umbrella company. Thus, different chains may share central reservation staffs and Internet systems. Corporate affiliations are...

9 W. 57th St., New York, 10019 212-413-1800 www.cendant.com www.avis.com www.wizcom.com Employees: 500 Top official: Henry Silverman, CEO Parent company: Cendant Corp., Manhattan Ticker: CD

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With his soft-spoken manner and carefully coiffed silver mane, veteran real estate executive Hal Ellis hardly fits the role of industry upstart. But the 74-year-old founder and chief executive of CataList Homes Inc. is engaged in a well-funded and...

CHRIS WILLIAMS appreciates plush surroundings. In December, he and his wife, Alice, stayed in a $350-a-night Ritz-Carlton in Florida. "Marble everything," he said. But last month, the couple from Rome, Ga., decided on the Holiday Inn Express...

Burger King's chairman and chief executive resigned Friday after starting a turnaround at the No. 2 hamburger restaurant chain, but his departure raised questions about the company's impending initial public offering and its continued revolving door for...

When Mel Karmazin left as president of media giant Viacom Inc. last June, he walked away with more than $31 million. That package alone would have been enough money to make Karmazin one of the 10 highest-paid executives at publicly traded companies in...

Airlines As of Tuesday, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International and the Gulfport-Biloxi International airports remained closed to all traffic, except relief and rescue flights. No reopening dates were announced. Airlines continued to divert hundreds...

Cendant Corp., already a major player in Central Florida's hotel and time-share markets, said Wednesday it will buy the Wyndham brand and franchise system nationwide for $100 million in cash. Locally, that would give Cendant the management rights to...