All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2025 // Josh Yoder, a fifth-generation farmer in Ohio, has been watching gyrations in the crop markets as Donald Trump moved to dramatically escalate his trade war with China this week. Yoder is still an ardent Trump supporter,...
Apr 10 2025 // “Drill, baby, drill” may be Texas’s unofficial motto, but “store, baby, store” is becoming more accurate.The Lone Star State may be the heart of America’s oil and gas map, but it’s...
Apr 9 2025 // Hackers intercepted about 103 bank regulators’ emails for more than a year, gaining access to highly sensitive financial information, according to two people familiar with the matter and a draft letter to Congress...
Apr 9 2025 // With the Los Angeles fires in January and last week’s severe storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the Midwest, extreme weather is already battering US homes in 2025. Homeowners should expect their insurance...
Apr 9 2025 // Allianz Commercial, headquartered in New York City, expanded its U.S. construction team with five new hires who will join Allianz Commercial’s Master Builder’s Risk team by mid-April.Kristen Hoskinson was...
Apr 8 2025 // U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told U.S. senators on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration has no plans to change tactics on the global tariff program in the near term, prompting some light...
Apr 7 2025 // A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather.From April 2 to April 6, a rare...
Apr 7 2025 // resident Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans battered global markets again on Monday after he said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to get the levies removed, while U.S. stocks got...
Apr 7 2025 // Bayer said on Friday it was again petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to sharply limit legal claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, seeking to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages.Bayer said in its...
Apr 7 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported its first full-year underwriting gain in four years, fueling a jump in net income to $170 billion, according to a joint report from Verisk and The American Property...
Apr 7 2025 // For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit.AM Best in a “First Look” at U.S. P/C financial results said the industry left 2024 with a...
Apr 7 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during January renewals, but U.S. property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from Moody’s...
Apr 4 2025 // Risk digitization was cited as the primary technology priority for revenue growth in a recent study from insurtech Cytora.Cytora surveyed 200 senior leaders from global insurance firms and found that 76% of respondents saw...
Apr 3 2025 // Deadly storms and flooding rains left a path of destruction across 14 states in the US South and Midwest, knocking out power to more than 400,000 customers.Record rain fell in Memphis and eastern Missouri overnight and...
Apr 2 2025 // Heavy rain, severe thunderstorms and the risk of tornadoes are threatening more than 40 million people from Michigan to Texas as a slow-moving cold front hovers over the region.There’s a rare high risk for damaging...
Apr 2 2025 // Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handling of the federal response to bird flu, according to a letter...
Apr 1 2025 // The Hartford of Hartford, Connecticut said Shekar Pannala was named the company’s chief information officer and leads technology, as well as cybersecurity, infrastructure and cloud modernization.Prior to joining The...
Apr 1 2025 // Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Icen Risk, a company that specializes in insuring mergers and acquisitions.The transaction will see Zurich take a “significant minority” in...
Mar 27 2025 // Washington, Nevada and Oregon had the biggest percentage drops in vehicle thefts in the U.S. in 2024, according to a new report that shows vehicle thefts nationally fell by 17% in 2024 from a year earlier, marking the...
Mar 26 2025 // New analysis by Johns Hopkins researchers finds some bridges are likely to sustain catastrophic hits within the next few decadesShips are highly likely to collide with major bridges across the United States, with...