All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 2 2018 // Pioneer Underwriters has added Zach McAbee as head of ocean marine.McAbee is based in Seattle, Wash. and reports to Gene Hinman, chief executive officer of Pioneer’s U.S. operation. The new division under McAbee will...
Jan 2 2018 // General Motors Co. on Dec. 28 won a court ruling that could reduce the private litigation it faces over flawed vehicle ignition switches, which have been linked to 124 deaths and triggered a big recall.U.S. District Judge...
Dec 29 2017 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd. has agreed to pay A$132.5 million (US$103.2 million) to settle a shareholder class action in Australia.The class action was commenced by Money Max Interest Pty Ltd on Sept. 9, 2015 in the Federal...
Dec 29 2017 // In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the U.S. received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet’s temperature: a...
Dec 29 2017 // The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday proposed eliminating some safety regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling that the Obama administration put in place after BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a move...
Dec 29 2017 // It wouldn’t feel right to close out the year without looking back at the most popular stories on Insurance Journal during the past 12 months. Here are the national stories that attracted the most readers in 2017,...
Dec 28 2017 // A lawsuit by a woman claiming she was deceived about the amount of sugar in an exercise supplement called Sport Beans tops the list of what a top U.S. business lobby sees as the “most ridiculous” lawsuits of...
Dec 27 2017 // A U.S. judge on Friday overturned a $150 million verdict against AbbVie Inc. that was the first to result from lawsuits claiming that the company fraudulently misrepresented the risks of its testosterone replacement drug...
Dec 27 2017 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.’s top-selling weed killer Roundup, is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, contradicting a World Health...
Dec 22 2017 // Matthew Sather has joined the U.S. Programs, Property & Casualty team of AXIS Insurance business unit as a vice president of Underwriting. Sather is based in the company’s Chicago office and reports to John...
Dec 22 2017 // Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR1) into law. It is the biggest tax change in 30 years.Under the legislation, insurers, agencies and other businesses organized as C...
Dec 22 2017 // A European Union decision to treat Uber Technologies Inc. like a taxi company spotlights a trans-Atlantic divide over how governments cope with disruptive technologies and could embolden U.S. cities to restrict the...
Dec 22 2017 // As investigators sift through the wreckage of this week’s Amtrak train crash in Washington state, critics have begun questioning President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to roll back or delay finalizing U.S....
Dec 21 2017 // Deliveries by drones took a step closer to being allowed in the U.S. after a federal advisory panel agreed on a framework for allowing law enforcement to routinely track the small devices.The committee’s report to...
Dec 20 2017 // One of the owners of a company that abandoned thousands of tons of potentially explosive artillery propellant in Louisiana has admitted lying in order to be awarded federal contracts to “demilitarize” the...
Dec 20 2017 // Below are insurers’ plans for EU subsidiaries (in alphabetical order) in case Britain does not have access to the single market after Brexit:ADMIRAL. British motor insurer Admiral Group said last year that it could...
Dec 20 2017 // The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across the globe earlier this year.“The attack was...
Dec 19 2017 // Salt Lake City, UT, Chicago, IL, December 19, 2017- Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), recently received...
Dec 19 2017 // The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it will bar drone flights over seven major U.S. nuclear sites, including Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.The move is the latest in a series of growing...
Dec 18 2017 // Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed, but it’s unclear how the state is spending its share of the money.State records...