All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2017 // A company that advances money to people awaiting settlement payouts was accused by New York and federal regulators of scamming sick responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, as well as National Football League retirees...
Feb 9 2017 // Major weather and flood events in the U.S. during January will cost the insurance industry more than $1 billion as tornadoes hit a 17-year high, according a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
Feb 9 2017 // A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday upheld an Obama-era rule designed to avoid conflicts of interests when brokers give retirement advice, in a possible setback for President Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back...
Feb 9 2017 // The White House defended the president’s executive order to U.S. agencies to rescind two government regulations for every new rule introduced, after several advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging...
Feb 8 2017 // A federal judge on Wednesday ruled against U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc.’s proposed $54 billion merger with smaller rival Cigna Corp., derailing an unprecedented effort to consolidate the country’s health...
Feb 8 2017 // German automaker BMW AG has agreed to pay up to $477.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit covering about 318,000 U.S. luxury car owners who may have suffered water damage harming electrical components in vehicle...
Feb 8 2017 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons.One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
Feb 7 2017 // Five of the country’s 100 worst congested areas for trucks are in the state of Ohio, and three of those areas are in Cincinnati, according to a study.The American Transportation Research Institute has ranked...
Feb 7 2017 // A study of 3,000 companies in the UK, U.S. and Germany, reveals that more than half (53 percent) of businesses in the three countries are ill-prepared to deal with cyber-attacks. Fewer than one-third (30 percent) qualify...
Feb 7 2017 // U.S. Risk, a global property/casualty wholesaler and managing general agency based in Dallas,, has named Wayne H. Carter, III as president of U.S. Risk Underwriters Inc., its programs group. Carter will assume senior level...
Feb 6 2017 // Assurant has partnered with Vacasa, a U.S. vacation rental management company, to provide liability coverage and property insurance for Vacasa’s homeowners. Assurant’s short-term accommodations protection...
Feb 6 2017 // Express Scripts Holding Co., the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the United States, said prescription drug spending for its members slowed to less than 4 percent in 2016, at a time when scrutiny of drug price hikes has...
Feb 6 2017 // Marsh has launched Marsh CyberShield, an exclusive cyber risk and data breach insurance policy for mid- to large-sized organizations. Available globally to Marsh clients outside of the US, Marsh CyberShield can provide up...
Feb 6 2017 // Hub International Northeast (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of Hub International Limited, has promoted executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), Michael Sabanos, to the newly created position of chief...
Feb 6 2017 // “The report will not be punitive in nature. It is an objective review so that we can look back and learn from it and apply that learning to other programs in our agency.”— Great Smoky Mountains National...
Feb 6 2017 // Merger & acquisition activity in the insurance distribution space continued at an industrious pace throughout 2016, with 443 closed transactions. This was down from 456 in 2015, but still higher than previous years on...
Feb 6 2017 // A panel of financial experts discussed the opportunities and challenges they see ahead in 2017 at the Insurance Information Institute’s (III) 21st Annual Property and Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum.The...
Feb 6 2017 // Tow truck drivers operate in a dangerous world. Every day they face angry drivers while repossessing vehicles, dangerous driving and road conditions, near misses while operating heavy equipment, and close calls on U.S....
Feb 2 2017 // Donald Trump has no problem saying what he’s thinking – as he proved during a phoner with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday.This could make one wonder how he’ll treat Prince Charles – a...
Feb 2 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Annual Summary from CoreLogic Details 2016 Natural Hazard Events CoreLogic® analyzes and evaluates the number and severity of natural hazard events that occurred across...