All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2017 // Dallas, TX, June 7, 2017 – Matthew McCampbell has joined the U.S. Risk, LLC team as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development. McCampbell will be primarily responsible for heading up all...
Jun 7 2017 // Fatal workplace shootings, like the one Monday in Orlando, Florida, are ticking upward in the United States, government statistics show.Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive,...
Jun 7 2017 // Some coastal residents always put off emergency preparations until storm clouds loom on the horizon. The National Hurricane Center is going to try giving those people a deadline this year, issuing experimental advisories...
Jun 6 2017 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the...
Jun 6 2017 // The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits went to trial on Monday in Kansas against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market...
Jun 6 2017 // President Donald Trump’s administration will unveil revised self-driving guidelines within the next few months, the head of the U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday, responding to automakers’ calls for...
Jun 6 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.It’s no surprise that residential homes in the U.S. located along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are susceptible to damage from storms and hurricanes, and data shows...
Jun 6 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that church-affiliated hospital systems do not have to comply with a federal law governing employee pensions, overturning lower court decisions that could have cost the hospitals...
Jun 5 2017 // Farm groups and some members of Congress from farm states are decrying proposed cuts to crop insurance and other safety net programs for farmers included in President Donald Trump’s budget.The proposed cuts come even...
Jun 5 2017 // A South Dakota meat processor’s $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit against American Broadcasting Companies Inc., which opens Monday, pits big agriculture against big media, and is a first major court challenge against a...
Jun 5 2017 // Reinsurance rates fell for the sixth consecutive year at the June 1, 2017 renewals, according to a market commentary published by JLT Re.JLT Re cited its Risk-Adjusted Florida Property-Catastrophe (ROL) Index which fell by...
Jun 5 2017 // The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld a lower court’s dismissal last year of more than 300 product liability suits against drug maker Pfizer over its antidepressant Zoloft.The lawsuits...
Jun 5 2017 // It can be pretty tough keeping an independent insurance agency up and running successfully long-term if you’re just in it for the money, according to the leader of a Chicago-based agency that is celebrating its 20th...
Jun 5 2017 // The United States Supreme Court says a Kentucky nursing home can require the families of two former residents to pursue claims against the home outside of court. The justices ruled 7-1 last month that the home could...
Jun 5 2017 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers lost big in 2016, reporting a $4.7 billion net underwriting loss driven, in part, by higher catastrophe-related property losses, according to ISO and the Property Casualty Insurers...
Jun 2 2017 // A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness, but some lawyers say the industry’s highly...
Jun 2 2017 // State governors and city mayors were quick to claim the mantle of U.S. leadership in fighting climate change after President Donald Trump said on Thursday the country will pull out of the Paris climate agreement.The...
Jun 2 2017 // Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it looked like a menacing new industrial espionage attack by Russian cyber spies.All the hallmarks were there: targeted...
Jun 2 2017 // President Donald Trump’s decision to isolate the U.S. on climate change triggered waves of complaints from government and business leaders around the world and handed China a golden opportunity to burnish its image...
Jun 2 2017 // The 2017 U.S. hurricane season may be here, but property/casualty insurers should be able to handle the challenges it brings, Fitch Ratings said in a new report.“Fitch currently has a negative sector outlook on the...