All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Situated along the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire,” California is in the middle of earthquake country, and planning for the next one...
May 7 2018 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says home and business owners in Dewey County who sustained uninsured damage from wildfires can now receive disaster assistance from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Fallin says the...
May 7 2018 // Emerging from a 10-week accelerator program, 10 technology-powered insurance startups presented ideas for enhanced customer engagement, cyber security, digital health, smart home products and supply chain management at the...
May 7 2018 // Sedgwick, Cunningham LindseyMemphis, Tenn.-based global claims services firm Sedgwick has finalized the acquisition of competitor global loss adjusting and claims management firm, Cunningham Lindsey and its subsidiaries....
May 7 2018 // Small businesses in the United States struggled with uninsured damages and lost revenue following a record-breaking year of hurricanes and wildfires in 2017, according to a Federal Reserve survey published in April.The...
May 4 2018 // Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of the Oklahoma-based arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi...
May 4 2018 // A friend of mine who is a bit of a climate-change skeptic once challenged me with this question: If climate change is such a pressing danger, why haven’t coastal real estate prices crashed?It’s a fair question....
May 4 2018 // As the U.S. market for telemedicine continues to expand, so does demand for insurance coverage for these providers, according to Beazley, which launched its product last summer.The U.S. is the largest and most mature...
May 3 2018 // A former member of the U.S. national team on became the latest gymnast to file suit over sexual abuse by imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s, alleging USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the...
May 3 2018 // Makers and distributors of the prescription opioids that triggered a U.S. public health crisis are responsible for a rise in health insurance premiums, according to first-of-their-kind lawsuits filed in five states.The...
May 3 2018 // A U.S. traffic safety regulator on Wednesday contradicted Tesla Inc.’s claim that the agency had found that its Autopilot technology significantly reduced crashes, saying that regulators “did not assess”...
May 2 2018 // Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU...
May 2 2018 // Amazon, Lowe’s and Tesla are among the firms on a list of employers with unsafe workplaces published by a federation of labor, health and safety groups.The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health...
May 2 2018 // Italy’s Octo Telematics, a global provider of telematics for the auto insurance industry, confirmed the completion of the purchase of 20 percent of the company’s shares by its Chairman Sir John Peace and Chief...
May 1 2018 // On-demand robotic flying taxis and drone deliveries are years away from reality, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has removed at least one barrier to their operation.Responding to work by companies including...
May 1 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an internet privacy case involving Google that could put the brakes on an increasingly common form of settlement in class action suits that funnels money to unrelated third...
May 1 2018 // Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users’...
Apr 30 2018 // The U.S. House has approved a measure requiring medical checks for commercial hot air balloon pilots in an effort to avoid a re-occurrence of a 2016 crash that killed 16 people in Texas.The House voted Friday on a...
Apr 30 2018 // Specialist insurer Beazley has launched a digital insurance policy in the U.S. that can be customized and describes in plain English precisely what coverage the customer has bought.Beazley Weather Guard protects U.S. event...
Apr 30 2018 // A prominent human rights lawyer demanded last week that Qatar compensate Dutch-based victims of an al-Qaida-linked Syrian extremist group, saying the Al Nusra group was financed by Qatar-based funding networks.In a letter...