All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 13 2018 // U.S. President Donald Trump said a free trade deal with Britain might be impossible if London went ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for post-Brexit ties with the European Union, in damaging remarks...
Jul 12 2018 // U.S. Treasury Department rules outlining which businesses structured as S corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies can claim a 20 percent tax deduction are likely to be delayed until the end of July,...
Jul 12 2018 // Fliers may have a tough time recovering damages for invasive screenings at U.S. airport security checkpoints, after a federal appeals court on Wednesday said screeners are immune from claims under a federal law governing...
Jul 12 2018 // Specialty insurance underwriter Ascot Group has appointed a new U.S. marine insurance team led by Chris Piazza as executive vice president and head of U.S. Marine Insurance.Piazza will lead all aspects of Ascot’s...
Jul 11 2018 // A federal appeals court on Monday upheld Volkswagen’s $10.03 billion settlement with the owners of nearly 500,000 polluting diesel vehicles announced in 2016.The three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of...
Jul 11 2018 // In closed-door meetings last March, U.S. transportation regulators and others grappled with questions about whether police should have the power to disable self-driving cars and whether an automatic alert that a robo-taxi...
Jul 11 2018 // Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co. by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, finding there was sufficient evidence for a jury to hear the cases that...
Jul 11 2018 // Facebook Inc. could be fined a symbolic 500,000 pounds ($664,000) by the U.K.’s privacy regulator after the social network giant failed to prevent key user data falling into the hands of a political consultancy that...
Jul 11 2018 // Federal officials have sued Houston-based energy giant Halliburton Energy Services Inc. for subjecting two employees to national origin and religious discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
Jul 10 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that after five successful years its flood resilience alliance will be extended until 2023.In the last five years, a multi-sector alliance comprising the non-governmental organization (NGO)...
Jul 10 2018 // The state of Maine is locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a pair of American Indian tribes about the way clean water standards apply in and around tribal lands.Maine is arguing in the...
Jul 10 2018 // The number of U.S. insurers providing cyber insurance continues to grow along with instances of cyber attacks.In 2017, 170 U.S. insurers reported writing cyber insurance, up from 140 in 2016 and 119 in 2015, according to...
Jul 9 2018 // North Dakota’s largest farm group is pushing for adjustments to crop insurance payments to protect farmers from international trade retaliations.The U.S. House and Senate versions of a new Farm Bill are heading to...
Jul 9 2018 // A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York on Friday convicted two men for their roles in an international scheme to make millions of dollars by illegally trading on corporate press releases that were stolen by computer hackers...
Jul 9 2018 // The U.S. government’s ability to police hobbyist drone use was upheld by an appellate court Friday in a ruling that helps set the stage for a series of new restrictions and requirements aviation regulators hope to...
Jul 8 2018 // Tropical Storm Beryl moved rapidly westward early Sunday, heading for the Lesser Antilles at the eastern entrance of the Caribbean Sea.Although what had been the Atlantic season’s first hurricane was losing power,...
Jul 6 2018 // Along with flying cars and instantaneous teleportation, smart bridges, roads and subway lines that can send out warnings when they’re damaged are staples of futuristic transportation systems in science...
Jul 6 2018 // Global insurance premiums continued to rise in 2017 with emerging markets leading the way, according to a study published by Swiss Re Institute’s sigma, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of market...
Jul 6 2018 // A U.S. judge on Thursday overturned a $140.1 million verdict against AbbVie Inc. in a lawsuit by a man who claimed the company misrepresented the risks of its testosterone replacement drug AndroGel, causing him to suffer a...
Jul 5 2018 // A.M. Best has downgraded its financial strength and credit ratings for insurer members of the AmTrust Group, not long after AmTrust Financial Services Inc. (AFSI) shareholders approved a $2.95 billion deal that will make...