All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2016 // The judge overseeing the U.S. Justice Department’s bid to stop health insurer Anthem from merging with competitor Cigna said on Friday her goal was to have a ruling by the end of January, later than the Dec. 30 date...
Aug 12 2016 // U.S. Risk L.L.C. has acquired Continental Risk Insurance Services. Continental Risk is a Lodi, Calif.-based wholesale insurance broker. Continental places marine insurance for both commercial and personal marine-related...
Aug 12 2016 // U.S. intelligence officials are planning to provide information including classified threat reports to companies about the risks of hacking and other crimes tied to the supplies and services they buy.The effort is part of...
Aug 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Chicago gave a thumbs-up this week to an obscure regulatory practice that helps the U.S. government account for projected costs of climate change. The decision comes less than a week after the...
Aug 11 2016 // When the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio highlighted climate change, it wasn’t hard to imagine the buzz – positive and negative – that would be generated.The show included references to rising sea levels,...
Aug 11 2016 // Chevron wasn’t the only winner in Monday’s ruling by a federal appeals court over its long-running Ecuadorian pollution litigation. The victory, in which the court affirmed that a lawyer for victims engaged in...
Aug 11 2016 // The Atlantic basin will see the most named storms since the 2012 season, the year Sandy crippled the U.S. East Coast, with five to eight of those strengthening into hurricanes by Nov. 30, the National Oceanic and...
Aug 11 2016 // Search crews have retrieved the ‘black box” from the wreckage of the freighter El Faro that sank in 15,000-feet of water near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin last year, officials said Tuesday.Using a...
Aug 10 2016 // Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Total Return Fund increased its stake in U.S. government debt to a 25-month high in July as rally in Treasuries pushed yields to an all-time low and then fizzled.Pimco is owned by...
Aug 10 2016 // Talbot Underwriting Services Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings, Ltd. has launched political risk insurance binding authority from its New York office, underwritten 100 percent by various underwriters at...
Aug 9 2016 // An Emirates jetliner was attempting to abort its landing at Dubai’s airport shortly before the plane hit the runway and burst into flames Wednesday, causing the worst aircraft loss in the airline’s 30-year...
Aug 8 2016 // Auto safety regulators in two countries are investigating another deadly airbag problem that could affect up to 8 million vehicles.Investigators in the U.S. and Canada are looking into a crash in the Canadian province of...
Aug 8 2016 // Ports in Japan, China and the U.S. face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters because of their vulnerable locations and increasing cargo volumes, a risk-management firm said.Nagoya, Japan, leads all ports with...
Aug 8 2016 // Two business groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday over a crackdown on U.S. companies that try to reduce their U.S. taxes by rebasing abroad in a process known as inversion.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the...
Aug 8 2016 // A federal judge rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers’ bid to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the accounting firm of professional malpractice for helping cause the October 2011 bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a...
Aug 8 2016 // Peabody Energy Corp., the largest U.S. coal producer, reached a deal to cover mine clean-up liabilities while in bankruptcy with three U.S. states, court documents showed late last month.Peabody has benefited from a...
Aug 8 2016 // This year could be a tough one for U.S. property/casualty insurers, as catastrophe losses, private passenger insurance woes and declining bond yields erode underwriting results and profitability, according to a report by...
Aug 8 2016 // Culture of Indifference“The federal government’s culture of indifference to worker safety at Hanford must end.” —Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson asked a federal court to order the U.S....
Aug 8 2016 // Worldwide Facilities has appointed Bob McAuley as regional president. He is based out of the company’s Atlanta office.Prior to joining Worldwide Facilities, McAuley spent the past five years with RT Specialty in...
Aug 5 2016 // U.S. Risk L.L.C. has acquired Continental Marine Insurance Services. Continental is a Lodi, Calif.-based wholesale insurance broker. Continental has specialized in placing marine insurance for both commercial and personal...