All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 30 2016 // Bart Schaffer will now be leading U.S. commercial programs at Argo Group.Schaffer is located in Denver, Colo. Schaffer was previously head of binding operations within Argo Group’s Colony Specialty company.Schaffer...
Sep 30 2016 // All five bidders seeking to bail out Japan’s beleaguered Takata Corp. have presented restructuring plans that require the air bag maker to file for bankruptcy protection, people with knowledge of the process told...
Sep 30 2016 // A U.S. law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11 attacks met a stony silence from Riyadh on Thursday but some Saudis bristled, saying the kingdom should curb business and security ties in response.The...
Sep 29 2016 // Excess and surplus lines underwriters continued to outperform the U.S. property/casualty industry at large in terms of combined ratio in 2015, Fitch Ratings said in a new market review.The report also cautions that premium...
Sep 28 2016 // Congress turned aside a last-ditch lobbying effort by the White House and Saudi Arabia Wednesday and overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow the kingdom to be sued for involvement in the...
Sep 28 2016 // Lawyers for Facebook Inc. on Tuesday sought to assure a U.S. judge overseeing lawsuits by victims of militant attacks in the Middle East that it took a “zero tolerance” approach to any communications that may...
Sep 28 2016 // Takata Corp. and some of the world’s biggest carmakers face an extensive — and expensive — to-do list as they try to resolve the worst safety crisis in the auto industry’s history.Executives for the...
Sep 28 2016 // Rocklin, CA, September 28, 2016- Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) is pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership with Hiscox providing access to small business solutions in 49...
Sep 27 2016 // Insurers say they are encouraged by the most recent developments in the covered re/insurance agreement negotiations between the United States and European Commission.Following the latest round of the talks, held Sept....
Sep 27 2016 // Property crimes resulted in losses of $14.3 billion in the U.S. in 2015, with $4.9 billion of those losses due to motor vehicle thefts, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.The FBI report,...
Sep 27 2016 // Automated cars have the backing of President Barack Obama, who’s signed off on what’s largely been a hands-off approach to regulating the burgeoning industry, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.The...
Sep 26 2016 // Starr Companies has acquired Wright USA from Ironshore Insurance Services, a subsidiary of China’s Fosun Group.Wright USA is an insurance agency and third-party administrator principally providing Federal Employee...
Sep 26 2016 // Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. is trying to “escape responsibility” for not considering that a pipeline that ruptured in Arkansas was susceptible to seam failure despite a history of such problems, according to a...
Sep 26 2016 // Tokio Marine Management Inc. (TMM), a commercial property/casualty insurer for large- and middle-market companies and a U.S. subsidiary of Tokio Marine Holdings in Japan, is rebranding as Tokio Marine America (TMA).The...
Sep 26 2016 // Yahoo Inc. was sued on Friday by a user who accused it of gross negligence over a massive 2014 hacking in which information was stolen from at least 500 million accounts.The lawsuit was filed in the federal court in San...
Sep 25 2016 // President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed legislation allowing families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, which could prompt Congress to overturn his decision with a rare veto override, the first of his...
Sep 23 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $12 million for environmental damages caused by a pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons (238,474 liters) of crude into Montana’s Yellowstone River and prompted a national debate over...
Sep 23 2016 // London’s Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. said it has acquired United States Sports Insurance Co., a wholly owned captive insurer of USA Swimming Inc. for $2.1 million.The company being acquired was...
Sep 23 2016 // A federal judge slammed Facebook Inc., saying the social media giant might not be doing enough to deter terrorists from using its platform.U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, New York, also accused...
Sep 22 2016 // The federal government has contracted with private reinsurers to improve the National Flood Insurance Program’s claims paying ability and reduce the need for the NFIP to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to cover future...