All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge backed by President Donald Trump’s administration to the structure of a federal agency assigned to protect consumers in the financial sector that could...
Oct 21 2019 // U.S. technology companies sent tens of thousands of documents to the House committee investigating whether they’re using their dominance to thwart competition, as the panel looks to develop recommendations by next...
Oct 21 2019 // How dangerous is travel in the United States? It depends on how the question is framed.If it’s risk per kilometer (about 6/10ths of a mile), the U.S. has 6.71 deaths per billion vehicle kilometers of travel compared...
Oct 21 2019 // The Hilb Group, Damiano Agency, Handy-Apple ValleyThe Hilb Group LLC has acquired Rhode Island-based Damiano Agency. The transaction became effective July 1, 2019. For more than 30 years, DA has been delivering property...
Oct 21 2019 // Approximately 25% of spending in the U.S. health care system can be characterized as waste. That’s between $760 billion and $935 billion annually.A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Oct 21 2019 // Reid French has stepped down as CEO of the insurance agency technology firm Applied Systems, and Cloud Technology Executive Taylor Rhodes has joined Applied as the new CEO.French, who served as CEO for eight years, will...
Oct 18 2019 // Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it is recalling around 33,000 bottles of baby powder in the United States after U.S. health regulators found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken from a bottle purchased...
Oct 18 2019 // U.S. auto safety regulators next year will propose several changes to federal crash testing standards that critics say have failed to keep pace with new vehicle technologies and lag behind other nations.The U.S. New Car...
Oct 18 2019 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will hold a Nov. 19 hearing to determine the probable cause of a March 2018 Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving vehicle crash that killed a pedestrian in Arizona.The...
Oct 18 2019 // The chief executives of the three largest U.S. drug distributors and a drugmaker have been summoned to appear before a federal judge to discuss a proposal to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging they fueled the U.S....
Oct 17 2019 // A Michigan judge temporarily blocked the state’s weeks-old ban on flavored e-cigarettes Tuesday, saying it may force adults to return to smoking more harmful tobacco products and has irreparably hurt vaping...
Oct 17 2019 // A bipartisan group of lawmakers is stepping up efforts to have U.S. trade officials eliminate a legal liability shield that tech companies are pushing to keep in new agreements, including a deal to replace the North...
Oct 16 2019 // Petrochemical manufacturer Formosa Plastics has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit in which a judge ruled the company illegally dumped billions of plastic pellets and other pollutants into Lavaca Bay and other...
Oct 16 2019 // Three drug distributors are in talks with state and local governments to settle thousands of opioid lawsuits for $18 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the...
Oct 16 2019 // Bayer expects the number of claims in the United States related to Roundup herbicide to have surged in the third quarter, as the German drugs and pesticides maker tries to reach a settlement after earlier court rulings...
Oct 16 2019 // Kat Merryfield was ready to share her farm-to-home oils, chocolates and creams with the rest of the country. But banks and credit card processors weren’t ready to work with her small business.“We started out...
Oct 15 2019 // How dangerous is travel in the United States? It depends on how the question is framed.If it’s risk per kilometer (about 6/10ths of a mile), the U.S. has 6.71 deaths per billion vehicle kilometers of travel compared...
Oct 15 2019 // London-based specialty broker Price Forbes has launched a U.S. healthcare practice headed by market veterans Paul Voller and David Fairbank, who are joining from JLT Group.Based out of London the practice will focus on the...
Oct 15 2019 // The National Security Agency is normally so secretive that its creation was classified, leading to the nickname “No Such Agency.”But in a move that surely caused hand-wringing and murmurs among the...
Oct 14 2019 // Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse.Just last week, a jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion for wrongfully pushing doctors to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug...