All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2024 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net combined ratio improved in 2023 to 101.7 from 102.5 the prior year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.The combined ratio for the industry’s personal...
May 16 2024 // Front Street Re, an operating subsidiary of Lexasure Financial Group Limited headquartered in Georgetown, Cayman Islands, appointed Edison Fong as CEO.Before joining Front Street Re, Fong was a director at Converge Re and...
May 16 2024 // A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, called on Wednesday for a big jump in government research funding of artificial intelligence as they debate new legal safeguards.Generative...
May 15 2024 // Popular Indian spice brand MDH, under scrutiny for alleged contamination in some products, has since 2021 seen an average 14.5% of its US shipments rejected due to the presence of bacteria, a Reuters analysis of US...
May 15 2024 // Net written premium in the U.S. workers’ compensation insurance market grew by just 1% from 2022 to 2023, a far smaller percentage than most other property/casualty lines.However, the workers’ compensation line...
May 14 2024 // The top US auto-safety regulator opened an investigation into Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., after 22 incidents in which the company’s cars were involved in collisions or may...
May 13 2024 // Air quality has turned unhealthy for parts of the Upper Midwest in the US, including the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, as smoke drifts south from ongoing Canadian forest fires, according to AirNow.gov.The US...
May 13 2024 // The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among dairy cows, in the government’s latest bid to contain outbreaks that have fueled concerns about human...
May 10 2024 // China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s third-largest commercial lender, was accused in a US lawsuit of enabling a massive fraud in the reinsurance industry that left companies with “monumental...
May 9 2024 // A trio of U.S. financial regulators have resumed work on a long-delayed rule-writing project to make executive compensation plans at financial firms more sensitive to risk.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office...
May 9 2024 // A tennis player was awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training...
May 8 2024 // U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told...
May 8 2024 // China-based ByteDance Ltd. made clear it won’t comply with a new US law requiring it to sell its popular TikTok video-sharing app, setting up what likely will be a prolonged court battle pitting free-speech rights...
May 8 2024 // The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must make sweeping changes to address widespread sexual harassment and other misconduct, according to an independent report released on Tuesday that raises questions about the...
May 7 2024 // The leader of one of the most prolific ransomware gangs was indicted and sanctioned by the US government on Tuesday, the latest effort by law enforcement authorities to crack down on rampant cybercrime.Dmitry Yuryevich...
May 7 2024 // Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Group, Ltd. headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, appointed four United States regional executives as part of realigning its retail business into four regions.Craig...
May 7 2024 // The number of wildfires per year is going down, but the increasing size and intensity of the fires is creating more property damage than ever before – in fact, the average fire size has tripled over the past 30 years, a...
May 6 2024 // Google and the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet unit has unlawfully dominated web search and related advertising, in a case the government contends could shape...
May 6 2024 // President Joe Biden followed through on Friday on his vow to veto a Republican-backed measure that would have repealed a U.S. labor board rule treating companies as the employers of many of their contract and franchise...
May 6 2024 // Nearly 80% of respondents to a recent Travelers survey said inattentive driving is more of a problem now than it has been in past years.Travelers noted the pandemic triggered a new wave of dangerous habits. The 2024...