All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2020 // The Houston Rockets and billionaire owner Tilman Fertitta are suing their insurer for denying the National Basketball Association team’s bid to tap its business-interruption insurance policy over revenue losses from...
Jul 16 2020 // LUXEMBOURG – Europe’s highest court ruled on Thursday that a transatlantic data transfer deal is invalid because of concerns about U.S. surveillance in a decision that could disrupt thousands of companies that...
Jul 16 2020 // Coastal communities in the U.S. continued to see record-setting high-tide flooding last year, forcing their residents and visitors to deal with flooded shorelines, streets and basements — a trend that is expected to...
Jul 15 2020 // Job loss stemming from the coronavirus stripped health insurance from an estimated 659,000 Texans between February and May, according to a new study.The analysis, published on July 14 by Families USA, a nonpartisan...
Jul 15 2020 // Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance standards to follow as they roll out the most significant changes to vehicle...
Jul 14 2020 // Specialty insurer AXIS Insurance announced the hiring of three experienced underwriters to its U.S. Cyber and Technology team.Peter Smith will join AXIS as underwriting manager, while and Emma Werth and Jessica Currier...
Jul 14 2020 // Several companies that certify vessels are seaworthy and ship insurers have withdrawn services to tankers involved in the Venezuelan oil trade as the United States targets the maritime industry to tighten sanctions on the...
Jul 13 2020 // As Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) executes its plan to regain profitability in the corporate and specialty insurance segment, it is adopting a more simplified regional organization in North America. The...
Jul 13 2020 // Several companies that certify vessels are seaworthy and ship insurers have withdrawn services to tankers involved in the Venezuelan oil trade as the United States targets the maritime industry to tighten sanctions on the...
Jul 13 2020 // Speed cameras made their U.S. debut in 1986 in Galveston County, Texas. The Swiss-made devices, dubbed “PhotoCops” by the local company that lent them to police departments in exchange for a cut of the ticket...
Jul 10 2020 // At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data...
Jul 10 2020 // Lloyd’s announced it plans to stop accepting admitted market accounts in the U.S. in a year and focus on the U.S. reinsurance and excess and surplus (E&S) insurance market, where it is the market leader.As part...
Jul 10 2020 // Insurers are creating products for a world where virus outbreaks could become the new normal after many businesses were left out in the cold during the COVID-19 crisis.While new pandemic-proof policies might not be cheap,...
Jul 10 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to decide whether the Federal Trade Commission can continue to require scam artists and firms that engaged in deceptive business practices to return money improperly obtained from...
Jul 10 2020 // The coronavirus pandemic has made it even harder for senior-care centers in the United States to find or afford standard liability insurance, with rates soaring by as much as 300%, insurance brokers said.Residential care...
Jul 9 2020 // Nexus Group, the UK-based managing general agent, is looking to the U.S. for growth opportunities, despite the raging COVID-19 crisis.“With the political landscape and Brexit, it was an obvious choice for us to focus...
Jul 9 2020 // Chubb unveiled a proposal for the insurance industry and federal government to partner on covering future pandemic-related business interruptions—and to get money to small businesses quickly—following through on an...
Jul 9 2020 // Crawford & Company, a publicly listed independent provider of claims management and outsourcing options to carriers, brokers and corporates, has appointed Paul Kottler as president of Global Technical Services (GTS)...
Jul 9 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court struck two blows for religious rights, including a decision that upholds Trump administration rules giving employers a broad right to refuse to offer birth control through their health plans.The...
Jul 8 2020 // Bayer said it had agreed to delay a proposed settlement to deal with future claims relating to allegations that its widely used weedkiller Roundup caused cancer after a U.S. judge questioned the plan.The German company...