All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2017 // The initial estimate of insured property market losses for Cyclone Debbie is A$1.12 billion (US$825.7 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance...
May 8 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett on Saturday fumed that healthcare costs are eating away at the U.S. economy like “tapeworm” and said the Republican approach to overhaul Obamacare is a tax cut...
May 8 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.For nearly the past decade, the growing number of earthquakes in Oklahoma has gained widespread attention. As described in the CoreLogic® Insights Blog Earthquake Risk:...
May 5 2017 // Federal safety regulators believe a hoverboard is to blame for a fire that killed two girls in Pennsylvania.The girls, ages 10 and 3, were killed March 10 in Harrisburg. They are believed to be the first in the U.S. to die...
May 5 2017 // Johnson & Johnson and Bayer AG aren’t responsible for a Xarelto user’s internal bleeding, a jury found in the first trial over the blood-thinning drug.J&J and Bayer didn’t mislead a Louisiana man...
May 5 2017 // Tornadoes and mobile homes don’t mix to begin with, but throw in the volatility of climate change and the potential for massive property damage and deaths is even higher in coming decades, indicates a new study by...
May 5 2017 // El Nino conditions are developing across the Pacific with an increasing probability that a full-fledged El Nino episode will occur during the second half of 2017.Pacific equatorial winds have slackened since the start of...
May 5 2017 // The U.S. government on Thursday requested a 60-day pause in a case involving MetLife Inc,. the country’s largest life insurer, and how regulators designate certain companies as “too big to fail,” a major...
May 4 2017 // Family members of three victims of the December 2015 shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California, have sued Facebook, Google and Twitter, claiming that the companies permitted Islamic State to flourish on social...
May 4 2017 // Liberty Mutual Holding Company Inc. reported net income of $351 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017, a $42 million or 10.7 percent decline from the same period in 2016.Net written premiums in the quarter...
May 4 2017 // Even a relatively mild Zika outbreak in the United States could cost more than $183 million in medical costs and productivity losses, while a more severe one could result in $1.2 billion or more in medical costs and...
May 3 2017 // Canada’s largest property/casualty insurer, Intact Financial Corp., has agreed to acquire U.S. specialty insurer OneBeacon from White Mountains Insurance Group for US$1.7 billion. The merger will create a North...
May 2 2017 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has completed its acquisition of specialty insurer Ironshore Inc., creating a global specialty business with approximately $6.5 billion in net written premium.Liberty Mutual announced last December...
May 2 2017 // The heads of the U.S. financial regulators will meet next week to dive into the sensitive process of labeling companies “systemically important,” better known as “too big to fail.”The Financial...
May 2 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that cities may sue banks over predatory mortgage lending to minorities that harms municipal finances, but cast doubt on whether such cases can succeed by throwing out a lower court...
May 1 2017 // Catastrophe bond issuance made a robust start during the first quarter of 2017 with seven catastrophe bond transactions that totaled US$2.17 billion, according to a report from Aon Securities, the re/insurance investment...
May 1 2017 // U.S. House and Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that largely tracks with Democratic priorities and rejects most of President Donald Trump’s wish list, including money to...
May 1 2017 // The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S....
May 1 2017 // Most meteorologists forecast the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than a year ago, with the number of named storms and hurricanes near average.A few meteorologists, however, expect this season to be more...
Apr 30 2017 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday blocked health insurer Anthem Inc’s bid to merge with Cigna, upholding a lower court’s decision that the $54 billion deal should not be allowed because it would lead to higher...