All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...