All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2019 // The San Francisco startup that invented the groundbreaking Juul e-cigarette had a central goal during its development: captivating users with the first hit.The company had concluded that consumers had largely rejected...
Nov 4 2019 // Vaping might not be the gateway to teen smoking that many had feared, according to a study.Using e-cigarettes doesn’t raise the likelihood a teenager would smoke, according to a study by U.S. researchers. Smoking can...
Nov 4 2019 // Canopius Group Ltd. announced the completion of Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance’s (SFMI) strategic investment in its business.The investment will support Canopius’s growth arising from the recent...
Nov 4 2019 // A Maryland business owner has been convicted after a trial on federal charges for conspiring to burn down his business in order to obtain insurance proceeds.A federal jury convicted Demetrios ‘Jimmy’ Stavrakis,...
Nov 4 2019 // Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based re/insurer, announced formation of a new reporting structure led by newly appointed executive vice presidents, who will report to Kevin Rehnberg, president, group...
Nov 4 2019 // BMS Group, the London-based specialist re/insurance broker, announced the appointment of Jeff Irvan as chief property officer, U.S. reinsurance, reporting to BMS U.S. Reinsurance President Pete Chandler.The appointment is...
Nov 4 2019 // Crawford & Company has promoted Jack Schafer to senior vice president, chief client officer of U.S. Loss Adjusting. Schafer will report to Rohit Verma, Crawford’s global chief operating officer and is based in...
Nov 4 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said its quarterly operating profit rose more than analysts expected, as growth in several business lines offset the drag from trade tensions and tariffs and billionaire Warren Buffett’s...
Nov 1 2019 // The former operators of a spa and resort in San Antonio, Texas, to pay $2,625,000 to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by a federal agency.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Nov 1 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York.Reporting to Beazley’s global head of commercial property, Simon Jackson, Westhoff will manage the...
Nov 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to hold The Roof Kings LLC and its owner, Craig Galligan, in civil contempt for not fulfilling the terms of an order issued by the...
Nov 1 2019 // A company that owns a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility which burned for days in March didn’t have an alert system in place to warn of releases from its tanks, a federal agency investigating the blaze said...
Nov 1 2019 // Portland State University chemistry professor David Peyton had never been attacked with such intensity.Peyton and a group of other chemists discovered almost five years ago that e-cigarettes could sometimes produce more...
Nov 1 2019 // Global specialty insurer Hiscox has appointed Doug Karpp as head of Executive Risks and Cyber in the U.S, which includes Crime and Fidelity, Financial Services and Management Liability insurance products. Karpp, who...
Oct 31 2019 // Selling insurance to cannabis dispensaries may the business in which to be in the very near future.A new report claims that cannabis retailing could become one of the “most profitable specialty store categories...
Oct 31 2019 // Back in June 2018, AAIS filed its first CannaBOP policy to provide admitted markets a BOP that would cover the unique risks associated with cannabis businesses. While the admitted market has yet to fully embrace the...
Oct 31 2019 // The state environmental agency said a northwestern Indiana steel mill knew it was leaking dangerous chemicals into Lake Michigan but failed to report the spill or act quickly to mitigate the risks.The cyanide and ammonia...
Oct 31 2019 // Taylor Swift won’t escape so easily after all from allegations that her 2014 hit “Shake It Off” illegally copied the lyrics of “Playas Gon’ Play.”The U.S. Court of Appeals in San...
Oct 31 2019 // The rapid rise of crash-avoidance technology has set carmakers and repair shops on course for a collision that could determine who controls the $800 billion auto aftermarket in the digital age.Given the unprecedented...
Oct 29 2019 // Two former managers of an Ohio aluminum plant have been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay thousands of dollars in fines after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice in an investigation into a...