All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has expanded its mergers & acquisitions (M&A) team with new locations and the appointment of five new underwriters.This follows several years of continuous growth in underwriting...
Apr 29 2020 // Garbage haulers still collect trash. Cops are on the beat. Couriers deliver food and packages. Insurance agents work from home.The coronavirus crisis would appear to have put the entire U.S. economy on ice. Twenty-six...
Apr 29 2020 // The U.S. insurance industry is promoting the idea of an insurance plan backed by the federal government that would help businesses that in the future suffer losses from a pandemic, people familiar with the effort told...
Apr 29 2020 // After two passengers on their luxury cruise tested positive for Covid-19 in March, Emilio and Barbara Hernandez were so frantic to get off the ship, they wrote a note to the captain.The Costa Luminosa sailed on with them...
Apr 29 2020 // President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States, despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk...
Apr 28 2020 // PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has released its Industry Exposure Database 2020.The database contains up-to-date information about property sums...
Apr 28 2020 // Insurance broker Marsh announced key leadership appointments within Marsh JLT Specialty’s Renewable Energy team.Oliver Holme has joined Marsh in the newly created role of UK and U.S. Offshore Wind leader, reporting...
Apr 28 2020 // Texas’ attorney general has accused the nation’s largest egg producer of price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic.A lawsuit filed by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that Cal-Maine Foods...
Apr 28 2020 // Daniel Duckett, owner of the Lazy Claire patisserie in Belfast, was hoping for an insurance payout of up to 100,000 pounds ($123,460.00) to cover losses during the coronavirus lockdown. Now he fears for the future as he...
Apr 27 2020 // South Dakota’s governor on April 27 said she hopes Smithfield’s Sioux Falls pork processing plant can reopen soon, a day after U.S. labor regulators urged the meat industry to adopt certain measures to prevent...
Apr 27 2020 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of workers at a Smithfield Food plant in Missouri claims conditions at the plant are putting workers and the public at risk of contracting the coronavirus.The lawsuit, filed on April 23 by an...
Apr 27 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of health insurers seeking $12 billion from the federal government under a program set up by the Obamacare law aimed at encouraging them to offer medical coverage to...
Apr 27 2020 // Two groups of plaintiffs — one in Philadelphia, the other in Chicago — are asking federal courts to consolidate lawsuits filed by businesses that are seeking coverage for business-interruption losses they claim are...
Apr 27 2020 // The U.S. Labor Department issued new guidelines on Sunday for U.S. meatpacking and meat-processing plants that have seen a rash of coronavirus outbreaks, saying employees should be spaced at least 6 feet (1.8 m) apart and...
Apr 24 2020 // A French court on Friday rejected Amazon‘s appeal against a ruling that restricts what it can deliver during the coronavirus crisis, handing a victory to unions which had criticized the U.S. e-commerce giant’s...
Apr 24 2020 // President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia’s Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses that had been shuttered to...
Apr 24 2020 // Two consumer groups said on Thursday that some of the largest U.S. auto insurers, including billionaire Warren Buffett’s Geico Corp., are short-changing customers on premium rebates as Americans drive less due to...
Apr 24 2020 // More than 5,000 U.S. meat and food-processing workers have been infected with or exposed to the new coronavirus, and 13 have died, the country’s largest meatpacking union said on Thursday.The statistics reflect how...
Apr 23 2020 // The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit on April 21 against the Chinese government over the coronavirus, alleging that nation’s officials are to blame for the global pandemic.The lawsuit, filed in federal court by the...
Apr 23 2020 // Shana Stodolski has been appointed assistant vice president, Cyber, for Brit Global Specialty USA. She will be based in Glastonbury, Conn. and be responsible for supporting the growth and underwriting of cyber insurance...