All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2018 // A U.S. judge in San Francisco earlier this month said a former Grubhub Inc. delivery driver was an independent contractor and not the company’s employee in the first case of its kind against a “gig...
Feb 19 2018 // All 15 surplus lines service offices across the United States experienced increases in excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance premium in 2017, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reports. U.S. surplus...
Feb 19 2018 // The number of work-related fatalities in Louisiana decreased in 2016, despite an uptick in work-related fatalities nationally that year, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission.Citing the latest Bureau of Labor...
Feb 16 2018 // Motor vehicle accidents claimed 40,100 deaths in 2017, almost the same as in 2016 when 40,327 were reported.The National Safety Council says its preliminary 2017 estimate is six percent higher than the number of deaths in...
Feb 16 2018 // A record year for natural-disaster insurance claims worldwide and a decline in fourth quarter profit wasn’t enough to stop Allianz SE from raising its dividend.Europe’s biggest insurer will increase the...
Feb 16 2018 // Siemens AG is joining with companies including Airbus SE and IBM to try to counter large-scale hacking attacks that threaten to cost $8 trillion in damage over the next five years.The group signed a charter Friday at a...
Feb 16 2018 // The United States on Thursday publicly blamed Russia for carrying out the so-called NotPetya cyber attack last year that crippled government and business computers in Ukraine before spreading around the world.The statement...
Feb 16 2018 // Eighteen states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, national coal industry interests and more than a dozen other groups are urging an appeals court to overturn a coal ash cleanup order at a federal utility’s Tennessee...
Feb 15 2018 // Everest Re Group Ltd. announced Shaun Safi has joined the Everest Insurance U.S. Property team as vice president based in Chicago.Safi will oversee the retail property portfolio in the central region as well as the...
Feb 15 2018 // London-based Brit Ltd. has renewed and expanded the collateralized reinsurance capacity provided by its Bermuda domiciled sidecar, Versutus Ltd., in support of Brit’s property catastrophe portfolio for 2018.Marking...
Feb 15 2018 // Cyberattacks cost financial-services firms more to address than any other industry and the rate of breaches in the industry has tripled over the past five years, according to a report from Accenture and the Ponemon...
Feb 15 2018 // A group of 13 automakers will contribute as much as $130 million to compensate those injured by faulty Takata Corp. air bag inflators as part of a deal to resolve the Japanese company’s bankruptcy, a U.S....
Feb 14 2018 // Specialty insurer Hiscox has appointed David McLaughlin as chief financial officer in the U.S.. McLaughlin is based in Atlanta and will report to Ben Walter, chief executive officer for Hiscox in the U.S. McLaughlin brings...
Feb 13 2018 // One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California’s half-century-old, towering Oroville Dam say they are looking hard at how they overlooked...
Feb 13 2018 // Blackstone Group LP, which scored big four years ago when a company it owned sold New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel for a record-setting price to a little-known Chinese insurer, may soon get a chance to own the iconic...
Feb 13 2018 // Five opioid manufacturers including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP have paid more than $10 million to advocacy groups and doctors tied to them, many of whom amplified industry messages supporting the use of the...
Feb 12 2018 // A U.S. appeals court has thrown out a 2014 jury verdict finding Arab Bank Plc liable for knowingly supporting militant attacks in Israel linked to Hamas, a decision that triggers a settlement agreement with hundreds of...
Feb 12 2018 // Broken equipment inside a steel conveyor belt sparked the first explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth on a mild winter night 10 years ago.The initial blast rocked the building, jolting more dust into...
Feb 12 2018 // Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation...
Feb 12 2018 // Takata Corp.’s U.S. unit reached a settlement with its creditors, lawyers for those injured by its deadly air bags and automakers that smoothes the way to end its Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sell its viable operations,...