All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2025 // British, French and Swiss prosecutors agreed to form a new intelligence sharing partnership in a bid to tackle overseas corruption following the pullback of US authorities from international bribery cases.The three senior...
Mar 24 2025 // While Western wildfires have dominated disaster news for decades, new analysis using artificial intelligence shows millions of homes across the country—even in the swampy Southeast—are at risk for wildfires.ZestyAI...
Mar 24 2025 // U.S. commercial insurance rates showed a continued upward trend, with signs of moderation in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the latest findings from WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey...
Mar 24 2025 // There are 11.96 million registered recreational boating vessels in the U.S., with 11.1 million mechanically propelled in the U.S. Florida is the U.S. state with the highest number of registered recreational boating...
Mar 21 2025 // Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant.The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed...
Mar 21 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...
Mar 21 2025 // Marsh, headquartered in New York City, appointed Fran Curran as U.S. surety leader and Todd Schweitzer as U.S. construction claims leader.Based in Philadelphia, Curran is a 24-year veteran of Marsh who most recently served...
Mar 20 2025 // Munich Re said it has acquired Next Insurance, which will become part of the reinsurer’s major primary insurance business, Ergo.The agreement in place values Next Insurance at $2.6 billion. Ergo already owned nearly...
Mar 20 2025 // Vehicle thefts in the United States recorded their biggest yearly drop in four decades as automakers, mainly Hyundai and Kia, bolstered anti-theft measures, while easing supply chain constraints made stealing vehicles for...
Mar 20 2025 // A federal judge on Monday declined to force the Trump administration to immediately reimburse dozens of public broadcasting stations for upgrades to the nation’s emergency alert system.The nonprofit Corporation for...
Mar 19 2025 // Finland’s unbroken streak as the world’s happiest country continued for an eighth year while the US fell to 24th place, its lowest-ever level in the global ranking.Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands...
Mar 18 2025 // The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has disbursed $57 million of an up to $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec’s Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, which the company hopes will be the first U.S....
Mar 18 2025 // For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit.AM Best today in a “First Look” at US P/C financial results said the industry left 2024 with...
Mar 16 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday said the Trump administration could temporarily implement a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies and businesses with government contracts, which had been...
Mar 14 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during this year’s January renewals, but US property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from...
Mar 13 2025 // A year after Elon Musk urged U.S. companies to abandon Delaware as their legal home and follow Tesla to Texas, legislators in the two states on Wednesday considered bills in an unusual battle over corporate law that...
Mar 12 2025 // There is about a 40% chance of a U.S. recession this year and a risk of lasting damage to the country’s standing as an investment destination if the administration undermines trust in U.S. governance, according to...
Mar 12 2025 // A potent storm system is expected to pour heavy rain on western states later this week before rumbling into the central United States, where it could spawn tornadoes in the South and dump heavy snow across the parts of the...
Mar 12 2025 // Missouri’s attorney general is threatening to seize Chinese assets across the U.S. to collect $24.5 billion awarded in a lawsuit against China stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts were skeptical Monday,...
Mar 11 2025 // The U.S. agency that enforces the labor rights of private-sector workers is abandoning its defense of a law barring the president from removing appointees at will, as President Donald Trump seeks to oust a Democratic...